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A wedding procession by night; a groom sitting in a palanquin, preceded by musicians, torch-bearers, guards and attendants. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 582534i- Pictures
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A man with a torch walking alongside a cart of plague victims; a woman is holding a dead child. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
Ward, Edward Matthew, 1816-1879.Date: 1848Reference: 6424i- Pictures
Cupid as a wind blowing on a torch: an emblem of love, "He (Cupid) who nourishes me extinguishes me". Engraving by C. de Passe, ca. 1615.
Date: [1615?]Reference: 2438813i- Pictures
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In the foreground a fox with a flaming torch in its mouth is climbing up a tree trying to reach an eagle's nest; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching.
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Anne Boleyn, head and shoulders, in a roundel; below, a putto holding a torch downwards, Anne Boleyn's head and an axe. Engraving by J. Houbraken, 1738, after H. Holbein the younger.
Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543.Date: 1738Reference: 570149i- Pictures
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Saint Geneviève is holding the Bible and a torch which an angel lights with a candle but a devil tries to extinguish with bellows; Notre Dame Cathedral in the background. Engraving.
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A naked man is standing in front of a sundial holding a torch, he is surrounded by a sickle, a lily and a basket of apples; representing the month June. Engraving.
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A man reading a grimoire, grinning; next to him a hooded man, kneeling on the floor, is holding a torch: they are conjuring up demons. Etching after D. Teniers, the younger, 1750/1790.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1750-1790Reference: 562775i- Pictures
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A man reading a grimoire, grinning; next to him a hooded man, kneeling on the floor, is holding a torch: they are conjuring up demons. Mezzotint after D. Teniers the younger, 1750/1790.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1750-1790Reference: 562781i- Pictures
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A man holding a torch and surrounded by heart-shaped vegetables is standing near a table with dices, pointing to a bunch of dead birds on a hook; representing the month December. Engraving.
Reference: 39056i- Pictures
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A skeleton holding a burning torch in front of broken blackout planks; advertising the danger of death in German cities from inadequate blackout in World War II. Lithograph after R.H.M. Hahn, 194-.
Hahn, R. H. M.Date: [between 1940 and 1949]Reference: 674359i- Pictures
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A man reading a grimoire, grinning; next to him a hooded man, kneeling on the floor, is holding a torch: they are conjuring up demons. Engraving by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger, 1750/1790.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1750-1790Reference: 562769i- Archives and manuscripts
War Office report on lessons learned by the medical services during the fighting in Egypt and Libya, 1941-1942
Date: 1942Reference: RAMC/466/36Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Pictures
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Above, red-figured Greek wine-jug (oinochoe); below, detail of the decoration showing a woman holding a torch (most probably Demeter on her quest to find her daughter Persephone) and a satyr. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
Dahlsteen, Augustin, 1720-1769.Date: 1760-1769Reference: 565810iPart of: Dahlsteen, Augustin, 1720-1769.- Pictures
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Above, martyrs Woodman, Steves, Mainard, Hosman, Wood, Morris, Burges, Ashdon and Groves are burnt together at the stake in Lewes; below, the hand of Rose Allins is held over a flaming torch by Edmund Tyrill. Etching by G. Terry.
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Juliet, kneeling between the bodies of Romeo and Paris in the burial crypt of the Capulets, is about to stab herself in the chest with a dagger while a group of torch-carrying soldiers arrives in the background. Etching.
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A genius lying back holding a torch with the AIDS red ribbon attached to his shoulder, advertising the 12th International Conference on AIDS on 21 May [1995] organised by the Stop AIDS Kampgagnen og AktHIVhuset. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 676491i- Pictures
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A woman holding a torch is dragging a woman by her hair, another woman is holding her head in despair at the sight of a one-legged man destroying books and instruments; a woman and a sea monster contemplate the scene. Etching, 16--.
Date: 1600-1699Reference: 562790i- Pictures
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A Maori man holding a flaming torch; advertising the 11th Internernational AIDS Candlelight Memorial and Mobilization organized by Global AIDS Action Network on Sunday 22nd May, part of a project by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Stephen A'Court.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 669569i- Pictures
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A fox carrying a flaming torch in its mouth is climbing up a tree in order to reach the eagle's nest in which an eagle is about to feed the eaglets with a cub. Etching by J. Kirk after F. Barlow for a fable by Aesop.
Aesop.Reference: 39911i- Pictures
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Above, red-figured Greek wine bowl (column krater); below, detail showing a man with a torch holding the hand of a woman with a basket (of grape ?) on her head and a man with a shield (during a bacchanalia ?). Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
Dahlsteen, Augustin, 1720-1769.Date: 1760-1769Reference: 565487iPart of: Dahlsteen, Augustin, 1720-1769.- Pictures
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Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke. Line engraving by J. de Courbes, 1624.
Date: 1624Reference: 7754i- Books
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The history of succulent plants: containing, the aloes, ficoid's [sic] (or fig-marigolds) torch-thistles, melon-thistles, and such others as are not capable of an hortus-siccus. Engraved, from the originals, on copper-plates. With their descriptions, and manner of culture. Decade I. By Richard Bradley, fellow of the Royal Society.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCXVi. [1716-27]- Pictures
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Above, portrait of Daniel Sennert in a roundel; centre, a man representing Experience holds the staff of Aesculapius and a lily, while a woman representing Reason holds a balance and a torch; below, Hippocrates and Hermes shake hands, representing the union of herbal and chemical medicine. Engraving by M. Merian, ca. 1631.
Date: [1631]Reference: 567448i- Pictures
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Police raid a lodging house at night and arrest a convicted thief. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1848Reference: 26038iPart of: The drunkard's children