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A Chinese labourer (possibly a fisherman or viper-seller?) balancing a pole over his shoulder, from which a collection of small basket-like objects hang. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Dadley after Pu-Quà, 1799.
Pu-Qúa.Date: May 4 1799Reference: 567799i- Pictures
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Machines: a crane used at a harbour. Engraving by A. Wilson after A. Slight.
Slight, G. H.Reference: 45458i- Pictures
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A man is balancing on the seat of a carriage with a parasol in his hand as a horse pulls the carriage and a boy floats away holding another parasol. Lithograph by F. Festa after Bunivera.
Reference: 37356i- Pictures
Iris, the goddess of rainbows drops the vessel with rainbows she had been balancing on her head, she is holding a bird in her hands and is surrounded by a bird and a fish; representing the month February. Engraving.
Reference: 39034i- Pictures
A vertical brown stip traversed by a rust-coloured strip in which men are fishing; with a gate and a fence below. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1955.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 23/6/55 [23 June 1955]Reference: 2969660iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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Two Chinese prisoners carrying heavy loads on poles balanced on their shoulders: the men have their legs shackled and are led by two other men, who hold the long chains attached to the prisoners' necks. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
Date: 1780-1880Reference: 573876iPart of: Chinese justice and methods of punishment- Pictures
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A hand pointing to a red heart above which is balanced a blue anchor and above that a yellow cross representing an advertisement for the 13th International AIDS conference on 19th May 1996 in Denmark, Fakkeltog Mod AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
Date: 1996Reference: 676486i- Pictures
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A satyr on a pedestal kicks out at a magician while a priestess attempts to insert a clyster-pipe; depicting a play called 'The Golden Rump' representing King George II with his wife and Sir Robert Walpole. Engraving, 1737.
Date: Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1737Reference: 12161i- Pictures
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A surgeon using an electrical device to externally track a hidden bullet inside a patient's body. Wood engraving, ca. 1890.
Date: 1890Reference: 23492i- Pictures
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Science: a machine for determining the specific gravity of various substances. Coloured engraving by J. Lodge.
Reference: 47016i- Pictures
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Science: a complex machine for determining the specific gravity of various substances, an observer in early eighteenth-century dress looks on. Engraving.
Reference: 47015i- Pictures
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Clocks: various pocket watches, and details of their mechanisms. Engraving c.1861.
Reference: 46039i- Pictures
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The personification of Rome sitting on a column, balancing the statue of Mars on her hand; next to her the river god Tiber and the she-wolf with Romulus and Remus, behind them the panorama of Rome; representing the city of Rome. Engraving after Jan van der Straet.
Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605.Reference: 39069i- Pictures
Dragées Hubaux: product label. Colour lithograph.
Date: [1890?/1910]Reference: 550506iPart of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.- Pictures
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Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) and Saint Joseph with the Christ Child, Saint John the Baptist and Saint Michael the Archangel. Engraving by Annibale Carracci, 1582, after Lorenzino Sabbatini da Bologna.
Sabbatini, Lorenzo, 1530-1576.Date: 1582Reference: 10611i- Pictures
A cartouche with swags of fruit advertising the pharmacy of G. Acton, Worcester. Engraving by Gracroft.
Gracroft (Engraver at Worcester), fl. 19th century.Date: Between 1800 and 1899Reference: 26775i- Pictures
A raised arm, bent at the elbow, with semi-closed hand; vertical red line from top to bottom; yellow diagonal lines coming up from the bottom left corner. Watercolour with gouache by N. Goullet, 1955.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 13 Oct 55 [13 October 1955]Reference: 2969687iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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The planets and signs of the zodiac send down their influence on to the body of a man on earth; women representing nature (?) and medicine stand on the left, while scholars watch and dispute on the right. Engraving, 16--.
Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 643131i- Pictures
Pula (Pola), Istria (Croatia): the arch of the Sergii. Etching by D. Cunego, 17--, after C.L. Clérisseau.
Clérisseau, Charles-Louis, 1721-1820.Date: [1831 or 1832]Reference: 2924545iPart of: Architectural beauties of ancient Rome- Pictures
Justice with her attributes. Engraving by J. Frey, 1725, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
Domenichino, 1581-1641.Date: [1725]Reference: 3086004i- Pictures
Arthur Bower Griffiths. Photograph, ca. 1895 (?).
Date: 1895Reference: 554474i- Pictures
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Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: students in a laboratory. Photograph, c. 1933.
Date: c. 1933Reference: 30342i- Pictures
Four allegorical figures; representing the virtues of Solomon (?). Etching by M. van der Gucht after L. Chéron.
Chéron, Louis, 1655-1725.Date: [1717?]Reference: 2497824i- Pictures
Harold Wilson MP and George Brown MP, riding in a speedboat, are called in by the boat hire proprietor as their time is up. Drawing by P. Davidson, 1967.
Davidson, Paul, active approximately 1967.Date: 18.10.67 [18 October 1967]Reference: 2924123iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
Examples of fraudulent imitations (?). Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1843.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1843Reference: 588782i