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On sending some pictures of nuns and fryers to Thomas Brand Hollis, Esq. at the Hyde in Essex, supposed to be real personages turned out of the convents and monasteries in Flanders by the Emperor. Their conversation on approaching the Hyde, by the back road.
Date: 1785?]- Pictures
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A monk, praying by a brick wall, turns into a turkey; above, a modest nun with a purple veil, with whom he is in love. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: Feb 69 [February 1969]Reference: 2901317iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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A baby is being taken care of by a nun in a convent. Etching by Alberto Maso Gilli after himself.
Gilli, Alberto Maso, 1840-1894.Date: (1871)Reference: 27608i- Pictures
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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.
Reference: 17416i- Digital Images
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Arzneibuch. Western Manuscript 990, page 84, detail
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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- Pictures
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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.
Reference: 17414i- Pictures
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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 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- Pictures
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A nun holding a medicine spoon with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
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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
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.
Reference: 17419i- Pictures
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
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 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- 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