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The angel, announcing the birth of Christ, gives a lily to the Virgin. Etching by N. Le Mire after Dubois after F. Solimena.
Solimena, Francesco, 1657-1747.Reference: 23973i- Pictures
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A singer of tales called Rinaldo, performing to an audience of men seated around him: he reads the story from a book and makes gestures with a stick. Coloured lithograph by Gatti & Dura after Gaet. Dura.
Dura, Gaetano.Reference: 32451i- Pictures
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A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.Date: [1497?]Reference: 570763i- Pictures
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A soldier in the Prussian army. Drawing, c. 1794.
Date: 1794?Reference: 30204i- Pictures
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The announcing angel salutes the Virgin. Engraving.
Reference: 21704i- Pictures
An episode in Macbeth by William Shakespeare: three witches, standing by a cauldron, tell their prophecies to Macbeth, who reacts with agitated gestures, while Banquo looks on; a fort inscribed with occult signs in the background. Mezzotint by C. Turner after a gentleman.
Date: June 1 1799Reference: 573817i- Pictures
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Bazile and Bartolo, characters from a story by Beaumarchais, representing the phrenological 'propensity' of secretiveness. Steel engraving by Geoffroy, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27616i- Pictures
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A man challenges another; exhibiting boldness, classed phrenologically under the 'propensity' of combativeness. Steel engraving by Contenau, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27614i- Pictures
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A woman making gestures of speech, having a snake around her wrist and a parrot on her head, is standing in a market place with a court scene to her left and a verdict being read out to her right; representing Dialectic. Engraving after M. de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 38934i- Pictures
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The devil examining the head of a boy; three other boys lurk under the devil's wings; frontispiece to a manual on phrenology. Steel engraving by J.D. Nargeot, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27612i- Pictures
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A man with a large, protruding head walking with a heavy gait; illustrating the reflective faculty in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Devrits, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27624i- Pictures
Saint Peter and Saint John heal the lame man. Engraving by G. Bonasone after P. Buonaccorsi.
Perino, del Vaga, 1500 or 1501-1547.Reference: 24769i- Pictures
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The Annunciation to the Virgin. Engraving by C. Cort after Titian.
Titian, approximately 1488-1576.Date: 1500-1599Reference: 21627i- Pictures
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A woman sitting in a chair making gestures of pain while a hair-dresser combs her back hair and a maidservant combs a tress pulled forward over her face: in the left background a man having his hair combed, he too looks pained. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 1807.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1807Reference: 31337i- Pictures
The Annunciation to the Virgin. Engraving by T. Galle after P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1610 and 1619]Reference: 2819133i- Pictures
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The angel announces to the Virgin that she will give birth to Christ. Watercolour.
Reference: 23977i- Pictures
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The Annunciation to the Virgin, who reads from the Bible. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Reference: 21687i- Pictures
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The Virgin sets aside her Bible as the angel appears, holding out his hand and bearing lilies. Engraving after F. Barocci (?).
Barocci, Federigo, 1528-1612.Reference: 21693i- Pictures
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John the Baptist embraces Jesus, whom he has been awaiting. Engraving by G. Rousselet after G. Reni.
Reni, Guido, 1575-1642.Date: 1765Reference: 22437i- Pictures
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An introverted and an extroverted man; exhibiting excessive and lacking propensities connected with the faculty of causality (reflective thought) in phrenology. Steel engraving by E. Monnin, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27621i- Pictures
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A man sitting erect on a chair; representing pride as a type of the 'sentiment' of self esteem, a phrenological 'faculty'. Steel engraving by C. Devrits, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27619i- Pictures
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John the Baptist recognises Jesus as the messiah. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1765, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
Domenichino, 1581-1641.Date: 1765Reference: 22435i- Pictures
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The coronation of the Virgin. Coloured drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after I. di P. Francucci.
Innocenzo, da Imola, approximately 1485-approximately 1548.Reference: 11805iPart of: La Pinacoteca della Pontificia Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna- 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 / ...By J. B. Gent. Philochirosophus.
J. B. (John Bulwer), 1606-1656.Date: 1644- Pictures
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A crowd watches as two men gamble; representing the phrenological faculty of acquisitiveness. Steel engraving by L.A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27617i