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Ahasuerus (the Wandering Jew) man sits in hell among the shades, decrepit and tormented by Satan. Wood engraving by F.J. Gauchard after G. Doré, 1856.
Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883.Date: 1856Reference: 25151i- Pictures
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Diagrams of shadows, and renderings of architectural elements with shadows. Lithograph by Mackay & Kirkwood, 1860.
Date: [1860]Reference: 46080i- Pictures
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A man frightened by his own shadow. Wood engraving, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 11530i- Pictures
A female stares out with wide eyes, her face is white with dark circles under her eyes; behind her a tiny house is obscured by diagonal purple lines and four grey shadows versions of her face recede into the distance. Gouache by Brenda Marshall, 1956.
Marshall, Brenda, active approximately 1956-1958.Date: 20/12/56 [20 December 1956]Reference: 3001942iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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A skeleton and its shadow. Pen and ink drawing by Joyce Cutler Shaw, 1992.
Cutler-Shaw, Joyce, 1932-2018.Date: 1992Reference: 43767i- Pictures
A girl in a blue dress sits in a chair cradling a baby; behind her are two pale grey ghostly figures; the background is white with pink wavy lines. Gouache by Brenda Marshall, 1956.
Marshall, Brenda, active approximately 1956-1958.Date: 30/11/56 [30 November 1956]Reference: 3001195iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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People eating in the shade beneath a tree; representing June. Etching by G. Perelle, c. 1660.
Perelle, Gabriel, 1603-1677.Reference: 26522i- Pictures
Causes of the English disease (rickets): (left) unsuitable food and (right) poor housing. Colour lithograph, 1922.
Langstein, Leopold, 1876-1933.Date: 1922Reference: 5107iPart of: Atlas der Hygiene des Säuglings und Kleinkindes- Pictures
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The back of a man sitting by a fire to light his pipe. Etching, 1849, after C. Jacque.
Jacque, Charles Emile, 1813-1894.Date: 1849Reference: 24868i- Pictures
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Leonidas Avendaño Ureta. Photograph.
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The exhaustive treatise on shadows / by Abu al-Rayḥān Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī ; translation & commentary by E.S. Kennedy.
Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 973?-1048.Date: 1976- Pictures
A bride being menaced by shadowy hands, referring to the danger of sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.
Mount, Reginald.Date: [1943/1944]Reference: 22647i- Pictures
Death, holding a scythe, has two children within his shadow; advertising the Red Barnet organization (Save the Children Fund Denmark). Colour lithograph by Marli (?) Lunbeck (?), 1946.
Lunbeck, Marli.Date: [1946?]Reference: 653087i- Pictures
The silhouette of a well-built young man lit from the back with his face in the shadow representing the hidden risk of syphilis. Colour lithograph by W. Mudra and A. Fux, 200-.
Date: [between 2000 and 2009?]Reference: 723481i- Pictures
A woman with a venereal disease walks in sunshine past a sequence of markers of the passing months, referring to the danger of delayed treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph after M. Bennett.
Bennett, Maurice V., active 1943.Date: [1943/1944?]Reference: 2863738i- Books
The girl who lost her shadow / Emily Ilett.
Ilett, EmilyDate: 2020- Pictures
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Sunshine (left): a woman with a jug; darkness (right): a witch with time and death. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1971.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: 12.1.71 [12 January 1971]Reference: 2897405iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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A boy casting the shadow of an adult, referring to the danger of inherited venereal disease. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.
Mount, Reginald.Date: [1943/1944]Reference: 22646i- Pictures
The parable of the lost coin: a woman lights a lamp and turns her house upside down in search of a lost coin. Engraving by G. Camerata, 175-, after D. Fetti.
Fetti, Domenico, approximately 1589-1623.Date: 1750-1759Reference: 2475534iPart of: Recueil d'estampes d'apres les plus célèbres tableaux de la Galerie Royale de Dresde- Books
Beitrgë zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften. XIII. : Über eine Schrift von Ibn al Haiṯam "Über die Beschaffenheit der Schatten" / von Eilhard Wiedemann.
Wiedemann, Eilhard, 1852-1928.Date: 1998- Pictures
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Four men whose distorted shadows are cast on the wall:a an apothecary casting the shadow of a clyster, a censor casting the shadow of a devil, a hereditary peer casting the shadow of a pig, and a Jesuit casting the shadow of a turkey. Coloured lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.
Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.Date: [1830]Reference: 32782i- Pictures
A central caricature of a social gathering at Montpellier Rotunda, surrounded by little sketches of scenes and portraits, Cheltenham. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: December 1833Reference: 16636i- Pictures
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A woman representing truth sits in a chemical laboratory and points at the source of a ray of light, representing philosophy. Engraving by Crabb, 1817, after G.M. Brighty.
Brighty, G. M.Date: 30 July 1817Reference: 26216i- Pictures
In a dark room Tobit is cured of his blindness. Mezzotint with etching by A. de Marcenay de Ghuy, 1755, after Rembrandt.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.Date: 1755Reference: 20904i- Pictures
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A man who has lost use of his limbs by taking a risk. Colour lithograph by R..l (?), 1929.
Date: 1929Reference: 2002816i