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Thomas Parr, said to have died aged 152, with a border depicting three figures and various symbols relating to mortality. Stipple engraving, 1807.
Date: 20 March 1807Reference: 938i- Pictures
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An African medicine man or shaman using symbols and small animals to eject a demon (disease). Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Reference: 21353i- Pictures
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Aesculapius, representing medicine, receives homage from putti who bring him symbols of botany, natural history, chemistry and anatomy. Engraving by A. Nunzer, 1748.
Nunzer, Andreas.Date: 1748Reference: 568155i- Pictures
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Chemistry: a chemical laboratory with many workers (above), symbols of elements arranged in a proto-periodic table (?) (below). Engraving by R. Bénard.
Date: 1762-1773Reference: 47851i- Pictures
A man and a woman representing the fine arts contemplate a tablet etched with symbols of etching. Etching by F.N. Chifflart, 187-.
Chifflart, François Nicolas, 1825-1901.Date: [between 1870 and 1879?]Reference: 2499306i- Pictures
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A naked couple embrace with the male and female symbols; advertisement for the use of condoms to prevent venereal diseases like AIDS. Lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 666984i- Pictures
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The sleeping infant Christ is surrounded by the instruments of the Passion and symbols of death; representing the forthcoming Passion. Engraving after G. Reni.
Reni, Guido, 1575-1642.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 38971i- Pictures
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A couple of male and a couple of female symbols dancing, representing a party provided by AIDS-Hilfe Flensburg e. V. and by lesbian and gay organizations. Colour lithograph, 1994.
Date: [1994]Reference: 672045i- Books
Indigo dictionary of scientific illustrations & symbols : moral truths mirrored in scientific facts / by a barrister of the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple.
Date: 2006- Books
The faces of nature in Enlightenment Europe / Lorraine Daston, Gianna Pomata (eds.).
Date: [2003], ©2003- Pictures
Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.
Date: 1616Reference: 35413i- Pictures
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The Eucharist venerated by Saint Bonaventure and Saint Anthony of Padua; surrounded by related symbols, texts and doctrines. Etching by F. Villamena, 1598, after Antonio Tempesta.
Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630.Date: 1598Reference: 32510i- Books
A grammar of British heraldry : consisting of blazon and marshalling, with an introduction on the rise and progress of symbols and ensigns / [William Sloane Evans].
Evans, William Sloane.Date: 1854- Pictures
Yama leading a sinner (Shristha papi) for an audience with Vishnu (as Narayan) and Lakshmi with a surrounding border of symbols, temple and court. Transfer lithograph.
Reference: 25867i- Pictures
A poem card decorated with plum blossoms: a fan, lacquer tray, block of ink and cloth are decorated with auspicious symbols. Colour woodcut by Hokkei, 1820s.
Hokkei (Iwakubo Tatsuyuki), 1780-1850.Date: [between 1820 and 1829]Reference: 37813i- Pictures
A chemist, surrounded by symbols and instruments of chemistry, advertising Richard Siddall, chemist in London. Etching by R. Clee, ca. 1750, after J. de Lajoue, ca. 1735.
Lajoue, Jacques de, 1686 or 1687-1761.Date: [1750?]Reference: 36994i- Pictures
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Rows of 3 circles arranged as male and female symbols representing an advertisement for the rights of those who have AIDS in Panama. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 679089i- Pictures
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Panama: a Choco Indian medicine man with musicians during a ceremony to heal a sick boy lying beneath a shelter bearing symbols. Photograph of a process print, ca. 1920 (?).
Date: 1920Reference: 580820i- Pictures
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Men digging minerals; a phoenix being reborn; a pelican feeding its chicks with its blood; symbols of the four elements; an apothecary's shop. Engraving by J. Drapentier, 1677.
Tachenius, Otto, -approximately 1670.Date: 1677Reference: 567815i- Pictures
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Saint John the Baptist or the Evangelist (?), with the Doctors of the Church and the symbols of the evangelists. Etching (?) after the Master E.S., 1466.
E. S., Meister, active 15th century.Reference: 5921i- Pictures
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A statue of Priapus, the god of natural reproduction with baskets and swags of fruit as symbols of male fertility and the earth's fecundity. Engraving by J. Lamsvelt.
Lamsveld, Jan, 1674-1743.Reference: 27851i- Books
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La migration des symboles / [Eugène Félicien Albert Goblet d'Alviella].
Goblet d'Alviella, Eugène, comte, 1846-1925.Date: 1891- Pictures
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White male and female symbols on red arranged as if the right side of a clock with the male symbol as the hands; with a message in Portuguese about how AIDS is transmitted through [unprotected] sexual contact; an advertisement by the Comissào Nacional Luta Contra la SIDA, Ministério de Saúde. Colour lithograph by Latina, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 676088i- E-journals
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The Journal of symbolic logic
Date: 1936-- Books
Tattooed mountain women and spoonboxes of Daghestan : magic medicine symbols in silk, stone, wood and flesh / Robert Chenciner, Gabib Ismailov & Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov ; tattoos drawn by Alex Binnie.
Chenciner, Robert.Date: 2006