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A merciless man refusing a request. Etching by R. Brichet, 1784, after J.F. de Göz.
Goez, Joseph Franz, Freiherr von, 1754-1815.Date: [1784?]Reference: 2958195i- Books
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Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand : composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof : whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civill conversation : with types, or chyrograms, a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument / by J.B.
J. B. (John Bulwer), 1606-1656Date: 1644- Books
The hand, an organ of the mind : what the manual tells the mental / edited by Zdravko Radman.
Date: 2013- Books
Wishes, anxieties, play and gestures : child guidance in inter-war Britain / Deborah Thom.
Thom, Deborah.Date: 1992- Books
On the element of symbolic correlation in expression / [John Cleland].
Cleland, John, 1835-1925.Date: 1881- Books
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Eloquent gestures : the transformation of performance style in the Griffith Biograph films / Roberta E. Pearson.
Pearson, Roberta EDate: [1992], ©1992- Books
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The academic speaker; or, a selection of parliamentary debates, orations, odes, scenes, and speeches, from the best writers. Proper to be read and recited by youth at school. To which are prefixed, elements of gesture; or plain and easy directions for keeping the body in a graceful position, and acquiring a simple and unaffected style of action. Epxlained [sic] and illustrated by plates. By John Walker, author of Elements of elocution, Rhyming dictionary, &c.
Date: 1796- Pictures
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Adam gestures towards a radiant Eve, flesh of his flesh. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767.Reference: 20723i- Books
Fluid signs : being a person the Tamil way / E. Valentine Daniel.
Daniel, E. Valentine.Date: [1984], ©1984- Pictures
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An omniscient virtuoso gestures boastfully at all the knowledge that lies available to him. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.
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(Above) A man receiving a command from another, showing postures of timidity and arrogance; (below) a prisoner sits manacled while one gentleman prays and another waits with a sword, showing postures of prayer, desire for liberty, and fatuity. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1854.
Date: [1854]Reference: 32243i- Books
Le style des gestes : corporéité et kinésie dans le récit littéraire / Guillemette Bolens ; [préface d'Alain Berthoz].
Bolens, Guillemette.Date: [2008], ©2008- Pictures
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A woman and a man make gestures advertising safe sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph for the Ministério da Saúde, Brazil, Programa Nacional de controle das DST/AIDS, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 679261i- Books
Mudras for healing : mudra vigyan : a way of life / by Acharya Keshav Dev ; [edited by Acharya Vikrmaditya, Yogi Patanjli].
Keshav Dev, Acharya.Date: 2001- Books
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Ensayo sobre el origen y naturaleza de las pasiones, del gesto y de la acción teatral, con un discurso preliminar en defensa del exercicio cómico / escrito por D. Fermin Eduardo Zeglirscosac [i.e. Francisco Rodriguez Ledesma], y adornado con trece laminas ... grabadas por el profesor D. Francisco de Paula Marti.
Zeglirscosac, Fermin Eduardo.Date: ... 1800- Pictures
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A manacled man standing before a jury in a courtroom making gestures of protest while being confined in a spiked frame. Etching by J. van der Gucht.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 43420i- Books
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The Young gentleman and lady's monitor, and English teacher's assistant; being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners; improve the understanding; rectify the will; purify the passions direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects; and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language, with elegance and propriety. Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools ... To which is added the Elements of gesture. By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the Practical navigator and Seaman's new daily assistant.
Date: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]- Pictures
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W.E. Gladstone in the character of Mr Pecksniff gestures away a persistent newspaper seller (C.S. Parnell?). Colour lithograph by Tom Merry after himself, 17 March 1888.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: 17 March 1888Reference: 564644i- Pictures
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A sumptuously dressed lady gestures towards a mid-air battle between winged fools; small injured figures fall from a bird-house like edifice. Woodcut by Tobias Stimmer, 1580.
Stimmer, Tobias, 1539-1584.Date: [1580]Reference: 37468iPart of: Der Ander Theil dess neuwen Kunstbuchs in welchem Reissen unnd Malen zu lehrnen allen Kunstliebhabenden zu Nutz an Tag geben, durch die kunstreichen und weit berühmten Jost Ammon und Tobias Stimmer- Books
The imitation of gestures : a technique for studying the body schema and praxis of children three to six years of age / by Jean Bergès and Irène Lézine.
Bergès, Jean.Date: 1965- Pictures
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An elderly man gestures towards a man on a bike carrying his family: child spacing and family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, ca. 1996.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 772062i- Pictures
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An elderly man gestures towards a man on a bike carrying his family: child spacing and family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 772011i- Pictures
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A smiling elderly man gestures towards a happy family selling their clothing wares: child spacing and family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 772063i- Pictures
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An elderly man gestures towards a man on a bike carrying his family: child spacing and family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 772049i- Books
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Chirologia: or, The natvral language of the hand : Composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof. Whereunto is added Chironomia: or, The art of manvall rhetoricke. Consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence: by historicall manifesto's, exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civill conversation. With types, or chirograms: a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument. / by J.B. Gent. Philochirosophus.
J. B. (John Bulwer), 1606-1656Date: 1648