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Adder's tongue (Ophioglossum vulgatum L.): fertile stem with description of the plant and its medicinal uses. Coloured line engraving by J. Basire, the younger, c. 1759, after T. Sheldrake.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.Date: [1759]Reference: 18156i- Pictures
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Detail of the funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I, showing the "Gentlemen Pentioners" carrying flags and banners. Detail of an engraving by J. Basire after William Camden, 1791.
Camden, William, 1551-1623.Date: 23 April 1791Reference: 46663i- Pictures
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The course of the veins and the arteries through the body (Table IV), after Eustachius; the arterial system (Table V), after Cowper in Drake. Etching by I. Basire, 1743.
Date: [1743]Reference: 37028i- Digital Images
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A woman from Prince William's Sound (Alaska), head and shoulders; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780) Engraving by J. Basire after J. Webber, 1780/1785.
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A man from Prince William's Sound (Alaska), head and shoulders; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780) Engraving by J. Basire after J. Webber, 1780/1785.
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The adoration by the magi of Christ, shown as young and old. Etching by J. Basire the elder, 1794, after J. Carter, after a bas-relief in Long Melford church, Suffolk.
Date: 1794Reference: 22193i- Pictures
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A sheet of standard weights and measures in use during the twelfth year of the reign of Henry VII. Engraving, 1746, probably by I. Basire, after a manuscript of c.1497.
Date: 1746Reference: 498501i- Pictures
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A young man pouring liquid into a vase through a funnel seen between a woman facing to left and a man facing to right. Etching by J. Basire, ca. 1763, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
Guercino, 1591-1666.Date: [1763 or 1764]Reference: 34801i- Pictures
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The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I, including the Clerks of the Parliament and the Clerks of the Privy Seal. Engraving by J. Basire after a drawing by William Camden, 1791.
Camden, William, 1551-1623.Date: 23 April 1791Reference: 46657i- Pictures
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The uncovered head of a mummy: showing the head with the outer covering removed and the head with a pledget of tow in the mouth. Lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852.
Scharf, George, 1820-1895Date: 23 April 1852Reference: 45271i- Pictures
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The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I, including the agents for Venice and the estates and the Lord Mayor of London. Engraving by J. Basire after a drawing by William Camden, 1791.
Camden, William, 1551-1623.Date: 23 April 1791Reference: 46661i- Books
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Les Adventures estranges de Lycidas cyrien, et Cleorithe rhodienne / . Contenant la conversion de l'un, & la reprobation de l'autre. Traduit sur l'original grec, par le Sr. de Basire, archidiacre, & theologal à Sees
Basire, Gervais -1649Date: 1630- Pictures
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John Bancks, expecting a visit by a lady, has tea prepared for her, but she does not turn up, the servant accidentally breaks a bowl, and the kettle placed in front of the fire melts. Etching by I. Basire, 1738.
Bancks, John, 1709-1751.Date: [1738]Reference: 33144i- Pictures
King Scilurus of Scythia teaches his eighty sons the lesson of strength through unity: individual arrows can easily be broken, but a bundle of arrows together cannot. Etching by J. Basire the elder, 1768, after P. Berrettini, Pietro da Cortona.
Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669.Date: [1768]Reference: 2839975i- Pictures
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The base of the brain with part of the medulla oblongata, the blood vessels injected with wax, and the cerebellum (Table XII, figs 1-2), after Cowper in Ridley (1695); the foetal heart, the larynx and the viscera (Table XIII), after an etching by G. Vandergucht in Cheselden (1740) Etching by I. Basire, 1743.
Date: [1743]Reference: 37281i- Books
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Antiquities and views in Greece and Egypt; with the manners and customs of the inhabitants: from drawings made on the spot, A.D. 1749. By Richard Dalton, Esq. surveyor of His Majesty's pictures. Engraved on seventy-nine copper-plates by Chatelain, Vivares, Rooker, Basire, Mason, &c. &c. The Turkish and Eqyptian habits coloured.
Dalton, Richard, 1715?-1791.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Pictures
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Fossilized skeleton of a winged prehistoric creature, with details. Lithograph by J. Dinkel, 18--.
Dinkel, Joseph.Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 581128i- Pictures
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Surgical instruments. Engraving with etching.
Basire, J.Reference: 47685i- Pictures
A monument to Lady Margaret Legh who is holding a babe to her chest. Etching by JB, 1794, after a tomb sculpture, 1603.
Date: March 1794Reference: 17455i- Books
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Some calculations of the number of accidents or deaths which happen in consequence of parturition : and of the proportions of male to female children, as well as of twins, monstrous productions, and children that are dead-born ... With an attempt to ascertain the chance of life at different periods ... and likewise the proportion of natives to the rest of the inhabitants of London. In a letter to Samuel Foart Simmons ... Read at the Royal Society, May 10, 1781, and published in the Philosophical transactions, vol. LXXI / by Robert Bland.
Bland, R. (Robert), 1730-1816.Date: 1781- Digital Images
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Bacchus, Roman God of wine, mosaic pavement, Roman
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Roman mosaic (tessellated) pavement, London
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Two aneurisms: fig. 1 of crural , fig. 2 of carotid artery
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Roman mosaic (tessellated) pavement, London
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Roman mosaic (tessellated) pavement, London
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