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Mr. Mantle is hung on a gibbet with the rope breaking under his weight while men carrying halberds are looking on. Etching.
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Architecture: sections of a mine shaft, a block of masonry suspended from a rope. Engraving by Bénard [after Lucotte?].
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 44154i- Pictures
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A rat leaving a ship via the mooring rope, thus spreading the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
Tarter, Albert Lloyd, 1913-1988.Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]Reference: 10481i- Books
Of the Indian rope trick, the paranormal, and Captain Shearer's ray : sidelights on Douglas Haig / by John Hussey.
Hussey, John, active 18th century.Date: 1996- Books
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A rope's-end for hempen monopolists: Or A dialogue between a broker, a rope-maker, and the ghost of Jonas Hanway, Esquire; in which are represented the pernicious effects of the rise in the price of hemp. By a Halter-Maker, at the service of all monopolists.
Reed, Joseph, 1723-1787.Date: [1786]- Pictures
A figure hanging from a rope bridge over water between two cliffs. Watercolour and gouache by David Thomas Meredith, 1975.
Meredith, David Thomas, active approximately 1975-1989.Date: 30.12.75 [30 December 1975]Reference: 3009664iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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A woman holding a tool to grind (?) which is tied to a rope. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 576708i- Pictures
People crossing the river Tons by rope bridge, Himalaya mountains, India. Coloured aquatint by Robert Havell, 1820, after James Baillie Fraser.
Fraser, James Baillie, 1783-1856.Date: 1 March 1820Reference: 29928i- Pictures
A young woman escapes down a rope of sheets, intending to elope with her lover. Aquatint by T. Lane after himself.
Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828.Reference: 28168i- Pictures
Two Chinese men are bound with rope and whipped led by another playing a gong. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 586447i- Pictures
A dinosaur suspends a person in a fire by means of a rope in its mouth. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1955.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 2/6/55 [2 June 1955]Reference: 2969665iPart of: Adamson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001537: Photograph of the local workforce hauling on rope to move boulders at Jebel Moya, Henry Wellcome's archeological excavation site in Sudan, with tents in the background
Date: January 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/14/36Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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God about to create the universe from a large sphere which is suspended on a rope by two genii. Engraving by J. Muller after H. Goltzius.
Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617.Reference: 567197i- Pictures
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Men hauling excavated soil up a shaft in a bucket suspended from a rope, driven by a steam hoist. Wood engraving, 1868.
Date: 1868Reference: 36584i- Pictures
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An écorché pulling down on a rope (?), seen from the back. Line engraving by Kirkwood & Sons, after W. Cowper, 1813.
Cowper, William, 1666-1709.Date: [1813]Reference: 561315i- Pictures
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Chinese sword-swallower and entertainer swinging a rope with cast metal weights attached to it. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 581177i- Books
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The case of the rope-makers of London, And other Parts of Great Britain: Humbly Offered to the Honourable House of Commons.
Date: 1708?]- Pictures
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A young woman is being pushed on a rope swing strung between two trees, a companion sits on the ground beneath. Etching, 17--.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 33205i- Books
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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.
Reference: 41365i- Pictures
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.
Reference: 30757i- Pictures
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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