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A Nun (Sister of Charity) bloodletting a seated patient. Line engraving.
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A nun wearing her habit holding a jug in the grounds of her convent. Watercolour.
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A nun brings some refreshment to a feverish patient, with a poem by Legouvé. Coloured lithograph by J.P. Moynet, 1846.
Moynet, Jean-Pierre.Date: [1846]Reference: 17875i- Digital Images
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Arzneibuch. Western Manuscript 990, page 84, detail
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A nursing nun in a pharmacy: with the hospital in the background. Lithograph by A.L. Noël, 1838, after F.J.J. Goetzenberger.
Götzenberger, Franz-Jacob-Julius, 1800-1866.Date: 1838Reference: 18211i- Pictures
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A doctor and his patient laugh during a consultation; behind, a nun stands by the door. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17148i- Pictures
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A nursing nun, carrying a tray of food and hot drink, wearing the habit of her order. Watercolour drawing.
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Catalina d'Erauso, a Spanish nun who lived as a male soldier in America. Lithograph by A.L. Noël, 1833, after F. Pacheco.
Pacheco, Francisco, 1564-1644.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 282i- Pictures
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A nun holding a medicine spoon with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
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A woman with her arms raised, a red sun above, snakes and darts on either side. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: Nov. 69 [November 1969]Reference: 2871465iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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Friendship in a nunnery; or, The American fugitive. Containing a full description of the mode of education and living in convent schools, both on the low and high pension. The manners and characters of the nuns; the arts practised on young minds; and their baneful effects on society at large. By a lady. In two volumes.
Lady.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The cloisters laid open, or, adventures of the priests and nuns. With some account of confessions, and the lewd Use they make of them. Containing a Series of diverting Stories. Also, the adventures of the bath: Containing, The Amours of Theresa and the Dwarf, the Love Letters of the Count Luciano, and the Tragedy of the Baron Casanatta.
Date: [1770?]- Books
British monachism; or, manners and customs of the monks and nuns of England. To which are added, I. Peregrinatorium religiosum; or, Manners and customs of ancient pilgrims. II. The consuetudinal of anchorets and hermits. III. Some account of the continentes, or persons who had made vows of chastity. IV. Select poems in various styles / By Thomas Dudley Fosbroke.
Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley, 1770-1842.Date: 1843- Books
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The new metamorphosis; or, The pleasant transformation: being the golden ass of Lucius Apuleius of Medaura. Alter'd and improv'd to the modern times and manners; exposing the secret follies and vices of maids, wives, and widows, nuns, fryars, Jesuits: statesmen, courtiers, &c. Written in Italian by Carlo Monte Socio, Fellow of the Academy of the Humoristi in Rome, and translated from the Vatican manuscript.
Gildon, Charles, 1665-1724.Date: 1708- Books
A nun with a gun : Sister Stanislaus a biography / by Eddie Doherty.
Doherty, Eddie, 1890-1975.Date: 1960- Pictures
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A sick girl in bed being counselled by a nun while another woman looks anxious. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds, 1829, after R.P. Bonington.
Bonington, Richard Parkes, 1801-1828.Date: 1 June 1829Reference: 17871i- Pictures
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A nun supporting a sick child; representing the work of the Herwonnen Levenskracht movement in helping tuberculous children. Colour lithograph by M. Wiegman, ca. 1930.
Wiegman, Matthieu, 1886-1971.Date: [1930?]Reference: 667685i- Pictures
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A nun in her habit carrying medicine and her Bible, with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
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A physician takes the pulse of a sick woman in bed, while a nurse (nun) hands her a drink. Colour process print, 1980, after P. Picasso, 1897.
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.Date: 1980Reference: 2491685i- Books
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A compleat history of the intrigues of priests and nuns. Wherein is contain'd, I. The adventures of the most principal of them, with their Method of Courtship. II. Their Confessions, with the lewd Use made of them. III. The Case of Miss Catherine Cadiere. IV. A signal Cheat, transacted by the Dominicans. V. The case of seduction; with an Account of the Proceedings against the Abbe de Rues, for Committing Rapes on 133 Maidens. To which is added, Rome's custom-house for sin: or, a table of the several sums of money to be paid for dispensations of all Crimes and Villanies. Adorn'd with cuts.
G. B.Date: 1746- Books
Regla y constituciones de las religiosas descalzas de la Orden de la gloriosissima Virgen Maria del Monte Carmelo.
Carmelite Nuns.Date: 1733- Books
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The Social and instructive companion, expressive of the following heads: The different orders of nuns, and the manner of taking the veil. Tauidores or bull-feasts in Spain. Pompous exhibitions of the regattas at Venice. Description of the person, the way of living, & of the court of Queen Elizabeth,-the King of Prussia,- and some curious particulars of Oliver cromwell. Account of the assemblies of Russia. The origin of Chivalry. Authentick account of Jane shore. Colonel blood's daring attempt of stealing the regalia.-and many other extraordinary narratives. To which are added, several curious and interesting anecdotes of this and the last age; collected from the best authors and best companions.
Date: 1765- Pictures
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A nun (Sister of Charity) feeding a sick patient. Line engraving by C. Duflos.
Duflos, Claude, 1665-1727.Reference: 17734i- Pictures
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A nun with two children in a convent pharmacy, surrounded attributes of the trade. Lithograph by André after E. Pingret.
Pingret, Edouard, 1788-1875.Date: [1853?]Reference: 16373i- Pictures
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An old couple lie in their sick bed receiving alms from a girl with the encouragement of her mother and a nun. Line engraving by Th.-F. Vi-., 1781, after J.B. Greuze.
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805.Date: 1781Reference: 17044i