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A coffee plant (Coffea arabica), its flower and fruit segments bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 28052i- Pictures
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A tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum), its flowers and seeds, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 28060i- Pictures
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A poor, old and wounded war veteran watched in sympathy by a young Russian family - a Russian war fund poster. Halftone after S. Vinogradoff, 1914.
Vinogradoff, Sergei Arsseniévitch, 1869-Date: 1914Reference: 24068i- Pictures
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A fruiting cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) Photograph.
Reference: 28229i- Pictures
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A husband wearily pampers his pregnant wife. Lithograph by F. Bouchot, 1838.
Bouchot, Frédéric, 1798-Date: 1838Reference: 16463iPart of: Contributions indirectes- Pictures
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The Italian social fabric symbolised by a chain of social types, with all relations of dependence ultimately relating back to the devil. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, 1691.
Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718.Date: 1691Reference: 17932i- Pictures
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A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [between 1730 and 1739?]Reference: 16957i- Pictures
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The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
Henriot, 1857-1933.Date: 1907Reference: 17268i- Pictures
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A mallow plant (Abutilon sp.): flowering and fruiting plant with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16683i- Pictures
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Vaccination in Burkina Faso. Lithograph after L. Koy, ca. 2000.
Koy, L.Date: 2000Reference: 751882i- Pictures
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Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
Date: [1979-1980]Reference: 664631i- Pictures
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British Association for the Advancement of Science: the president-elect and presidents of departments. Wood engraving, 1883.
Date: [1883]Reference: 47148i- Pictures
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Above, Nihonbashi bridge, Tokyo, crowded with traffic and pedestrians; below, Kaiunbashi Kabutorchō (?) House and the First National Bank building. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, ca. 1870.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880.Date: [1870?]Reference: 567277i- Pictures
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A dove stands on crossed keys holding in its wings a chart showing the good, bad or indifferent effects of each sign of the zodiac on different human activities. Engraving by P. Miotte, 16--.
Date: [1646]Reference: 46391i- Pictures
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A heavily pregnant woman walking a road littered with risks to her death: reducing risks of child birth in Uganda. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health, ca. 1998.
Date: [1998?]Reference: 811546i- Pictures
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A mouse is sitting in front of a trap with an inviting sign, contemplating the offer. Coloured aquatint.
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Investors optimistically seek the protection of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720, while others are irreversably ruined. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 816028iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A car from which shares are sold in the Netherlands during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811628iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
John Law: his rise to eminence and riches in France, and subsequent decline, resulting in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 816080iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
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Textiles: men working at large fabric printing machines. Engraving.
Reference: 31389i- Pictures
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The Museum of Practical Geology, Piccadilly: the interior. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1848, after B. Sly.
Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.Date: 1848Reference: 40340i- Pictures
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Textiles: women and children working at large cotton manufacturing machines. Engraving.
Reference: 31387i- Pictures
Share-dealers and ruined speculators confronting each other in a crowded street during the share price boom of 1720. Etching after A. Humblot, ca. 1720.
Humblot, Antoine, -1758.Date: [1720?]Reference: 3783iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A procession of carriages carrying King William IV and the Queen and pedestrians headed by a beefeater. Lithograph by John Doyle, 1831.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: Sept 7 1831Reference: 651612iPart of: HB sketches- Pictures
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A dwarf holding his hat. Engraving.
Reference: 4000iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.