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Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris: part of the cabinet of natural and artificial curiosities. Engraving by F. Ertinger, 1688.
Ertinger, Franz, 1640-approximately 1710.Date: [1692]Reference: 35705i- Books
Merchants & marvels : commerce, science and art in early modern Europe / edited by Pamela H. Smith & Paula Findlen.
Date: [2002], ©2002- Pictures
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Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris: part of the cabinet of natural and artificial curiosities. Engraving by F. Ertinger, 1688.
Ertinger, Franz, 1640-approximately 1710.Date: [1692]Reference: 35702i- Pictures
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8th self-portrait.
Charnley, Bryan, 1949-1991Date: 14 May 1991Reference: 3049694iPart of: Bryan Charnley Self-portraits.- Archives and manuscripts
Griffith, Edward Fyfe (1895-1987)
Griffith, Edward Fyfe, 1895-1988.Date: 1923-1970Reference: PP/EFG- Pictures
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A shoeshine boy cleans the boots of a man in drag. Photographic postcard, ca. 1905.
Date: [ca. 1905?]Reference: 2064362iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
Medieval bodies : life, death and art in the Middle Ages / Jack Hartnell.
Hartnell, JackDate: 2018- Books
Childless living : the joys and challenges of life without children / Lisette Schuitemaker.
Schuitemaker, LisetteDate: [2019]- Pictures
A pool surrounded by a rocky embankment thickly wooded with trees, in which a monk reads from a book and another monk stands in front of him. Engraving by W. Woollett and W. Ellis, 1778, after R. Wilson.
Wilson, Richard, 1713-1782.Date: 4 June, 1778Reference: 3162958i- Books
Consumption and the world of goods / edited by John Brewer and Roy Porter.
Date: 1993- Pictures
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"August Blue" by H.S. Tuke. Process print, 192-.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]Reference: 2046154iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Archives and manuscripts
A rose (artwork)
Date: 1940sReference: PP/RSI/B/1/2/2/9Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Black and yellow lines (artwork).
Date: 1989-1996Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/3/7/3Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Pictures
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People are crowded around a table on which there is a large dish of oysters, a waterman with an oar looks on, and a boy is emptying more oysters out of a donkey's panniers. Engraving by William Greatbach after A. Fraser.
Fraser, Alexander, 1786-1865.Date: [1841?]Reference: 30497i- Books
Gluck : art and identity / edited by Amy de la Haye and Martin Pel.
Date: 2017- Digital Images
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Atropa belladonna L. Solanaceae. Deadly nightshade. Dwale. Morella, Solatrum, Hound's berries, Uva lupina, Cucubalus, Solanum lethale. Atropa derives from Atropos the oldest of the three Fates of Greek mythology who cut the thread of Life (her sisters Clotho and Lachesis spun and measured the thread, respectively). belladonna, literally, means 'beautiful lady' and was the Italian name for it. Folklore has it that Italian ladies put drops from the plant or the fruits in their eyes to make themselves doe-eyed, myopic and beautiful. However, this is not supported by the 16th and 17th century literature, where no mention is ever made of dilated pupils (or any of the effects of parasympathetic blockade). Tournefort (1719) says 'The Italians named this plant Belladonna, which in their language signifies a beautiful woman, because the ladies use it much in the composition of their Fucus [rouge or deceit or cosmetic] or face paint.' Parkinson says that the Italian ladies use the distilled juice as a fucus '... peradventure [perhaps] to take away their high colour and make them looke paler.' I think it more likely that they absorbed atropine through their skin and were slightly 'stoned' and disinhibited, which made them beautiful ladies in the eyes of Italian males. Distribution: Europe, North Africa, western Asia. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Solanum. Nightshade: very cold and dry, binding … dangerous given inwardly … outwardly it helps the shingles, St Antonie's Fire [erysipelas] and other hot inflammation.' Most of the 16th, 17th and 18th century herbals recommend it topically for breast cancers. Poisonous plants were regarded as 'cold' plants as an excess of them caused death and the body became cold. They were regarded as opposing the hot humour which kept us warm and alive. Poultices of Belladonna leaves are still recommended for muscle strain in cyclists, by herbalists. Gerard (1633) writes that it: 'causeth sleep, troubleth the mind, bringeth madnesse if a few of the berries be inwardly taken, but if more be taken they also kill...'. He was also aware that the alkaloids could be absorbed through the skin for he notes that a poultice of the leaves applied to the forehead, induces sleep, and relieves headache. The whole plant contains the anticholinergic alkaloid atropine, which blocks the peripheral actions of acetylcholine in the parasympathetic nervous system. Atropine is a racemic mixture of d- and l- hyoscyamine. Atropine, dropped into the eyes, blocks the acetylcholine receptors of the pupil so it no longer constricts on exposure to bright light - so enabling an ophthalmologist to examine the retina with an ophthalmoscope. Atropine speeds up the heart rate, reduces salivation and sweating, reduces gut motility, inhibits the vertigo of sea sickness, and is used to block the acetylcholine receptors to prevent the effects of organophosphorous and other nerve gas poisons. It is still has important uses in medicine. Atropine poisoning takes three or for days to wear off, and the hallucinations experienced by its use are described as unpleasant. We have to be content with 'madness', 'frenzie' and 'idle and vain imaginations' in the early herbals to describe the hallucinations of atropine and related alkaloids as the word 'hallucination' in the sense of a perception for which there is no external stimulus, was not used in English until 1646 (Sir T. Browne, 1646). It is a restricted herbal medicine which can only be sold in premises which are registered pharmacies and by or under the supervision of a pharmacist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss: sketch books
Date: 1950s-2013Reference: PP/AMI/BPart of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Mary Barnes: archive
Mary BarnesDate: 1960s-2000sReference: PP/MBA- Pictures
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The countess, having taken a dose of laudanum nears death, and is kissed by her sickly child held towards her by an elderly maid; her father slips her ring from her finger. Engraving by Louis Gérard Scotin after William Hogarth, 1745.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [1745]Reference: 38358iPart of: Marriage a-la-mode- Books
The gourmand's egg : a collection of stories and recipes / [editorial and creative direction: David Lane and Marina Tweed ; editor: Ananda Pellerin ; writers: Patrick Baglee, Hannah Lack, Kadish Morris, Ananda Pellerin, Didi Ronan ; foreword: Ruth Reichl].
Date: [2022]- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss Archive
Amiss, Audrey, 1933-2013Date: 1930s-2013Reference: PP/AMI- Books
Eternity's sunrise : the imaginative world of William Blake / Leo Damrosch.
Damrosch, LeopoldDate: [2015]- Books
Epic Iran : 5000 years of culture / John Curtis, Ina Sarikhani Sandmann, Tim Stanley.
Curtis, John, 1946-Date: 2021- Archives and manuscripts
Ron Henriques archive
Ron Henriques (1949-2021)Date: 1950s-2021Reference: PP/RON- Pictures
John (?) Watson. Pastel attributed to W. Watson, 174-.
Watson, William.Date: 1740-1749Reference: 45863i