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A letter from the rope-dancing monkey in the Hay-Market, to the acting monkey of Drury-Lane, on the Earl of Warwick.
Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Pictures
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A cat is caught and strangulated by a rope in a haybarn with a fox looking on. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.
Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899.Date: 1853Reference: 39619i- Pictures
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A rider with a feathered hat is performing a dressage act with the aid of a rope dressed around a wooden pole and two men assisting him. Etching.
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A rope slung carelessly round the hook of a hoist, not knotted, with a risk of slipping. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden ca. 1940-1950.
Cusden, Leonard.Date: 1940-1950Reference: 32564i- Pictures
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A priest (the Catholic church) has tied a young woman (Ireland) with a rope and is admonishing her. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, July 1891.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: 25 July 1891Reference: 564969i- Pictures
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A man is sitting on a type of rope seat with a brush in one hand and a large bowl in the other. Coloured etching.
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A girl about to skip using a rope made out of a 17-foot-long beard, belonging to Hans Langseth of North Dakota. Photograph, 192-.
Date: 1949Reference: 33729i- Pictures
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One man turns a large wheel as the other holds the rope at a distance over a series of supports, two men collect wood to light the fire for the charcoal kiln. Etching and aquatint.
Date: March 1. 1824Reference: 30922i- Pictures
A man chopping down a tree, while three men are hauling on a rope passed around the tree; illustration of a fable by J. Ogilby. Etching.
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.Reference: 39862i- Pictures
A spinning top in flames, a noose with a broken rope, the sun with a heart, a bird of prey etc. Watercolour by G. Gurr, 1984.
Gurr, Graham, active approximately 1976-Date: 25.1.84 [25 January 1984]Reference: 2971484iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching after G. Cruikshank after Captain F. Marryat.
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.Reference: 10743i- Pictures
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A Chinese prisoner with bound hands and feet and head covered is slowly strangled by two executioners with rope. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 582382i- Books
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At the [blank] this present day shall bee showne rare dancing on the ropes, acted by His Maiesties servants : wherein an Irish boy of eight yeares old doth vault on the high rope, the like was never seene: and one mayd of fifteene yeares of age, and another girle of foure yeares of age, doe dance on the low rope; and the said girle of foure yeares of age doth turne on the stage, and put in fourescore threds into the eye of an needle. And other rare activityes of body, as vaulting and tumbling on the stage, and egges dancing upon a staffe, with other rare varietyes of dancing, the like hath not beene seene in the realme of England. And the merry conceites of Iacke Pudding.
Date: [1635?]- Pictures
A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.Date: 12 February 1819Reference: 10742i- Pictures
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An apple that has been bitten into is tied up with a knotted rope to prevent further bites; representing precautions against AIDS. Colour lithograph after R. Vlachová, 1993.
Vlachová, Renáta.Date: 1993Reference: 668364i- Pictures
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An apple that has been bitten into is tied up with a knotted rope to prevent further bites; representing precautions against AIDS. Colour lithograph after R. Vlachová, 1993.
Vlachová, Renáta.Date: 1993Reference: 668397i- Pictures
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Men are working on the side of a wooden boat; anchors, a buoy and anchoring rope are lying around. Aquatint with etching by W.H. Pyne after himself.
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843.Date: July 1. 1802Reference: 31048i- Pictures
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A woman carrying two earthenware pots to transport water and a rope and a black pot to draw water from the well. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 582538i- Pictures
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Use of a rope system (zip wire) to transport people and goods across the river Tons in the Himalayas. Engraving by H. Jorden after W. Purser after G.F. White.
White, G. F. (George Frederick)Date: 1837Reference: 36938i- Pictures
Peace: a family rests and plays on the turret of a building, the bell rope is broken and they can enjoy peace. Engraving by P. Lightfoot after James Drummond.
Drummond, James, 1816-1877.Reference: 27160i- Pictures
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A Protestant from Thorn is fastened to a stake by a ring around his waist and a rope around his neck and publicly flogged with rods. Etching with engraving.
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Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, weeps blood while praying for the departure of plague from Milan in 1576. Engraving by G. Edelinck after Charles Le Brun.
Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.Date: [between 1600 and 1699?]Reference: 646792i- Pictures
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Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, carrying a cross through the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Engraving by J. Frey, 1749, after Pietro da Cortona.
Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669.Date: 1749Reference: 10127i- Pictures
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Moll Hackabout, dressed in fine clothes, is beating hemp, used for making rope, with a mallet, in a prison with other inmates who are mostly prostitutes. Engraving by William Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 38227iPart of: A harlot's progress- Pictures
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A family picking fleas from each other's heads; to the left a small child is harnessed by a rope to the wall. Lithograph, 1820, by C. Hullmandel after B. Pinelli.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1 May 1820Reference: 34216i