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A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others' deaths. Coloured engraving.
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Clio, muse of history, sitting at a desk writing on a scroll while Chronos, god of time, is standing next to her holding his scythe, both are pointing to a globe in the foreground, above them Fame blowing a trumpet; representing History. Engraving by Vandrebanc after M. Touronde.
Touronde, M.Reference: 38938i- Pictures
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The figure of death in a red cloak bearing the words 'AIDS' and 'HIV' with his scythe and a syringe bearing the word 'heroin' piercing the black silhouette of a reclining figure; a drug safety and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Committee on AIDS Hanoi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 678210i- Pictures
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A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.
Nittinger, Carl Georg Gottlob.Date: 1856Reference: 17876i- Digital Images
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A man scything. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
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A man scything. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.Date: 1887Reference: 27867iPart of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements- Pictures
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A lone, wounded, French grenadier greets a skeletal death figure with the words "I am ready". Lithograph, 1829, by N.-T. Charlet.
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.Date: 1829Reference: 24445i- Pictures
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Aesculapius (representing medicine) routing death, Ceres (?) supplying milk to the starving. Drawing attributed to J.-C. Bordier du Bignon, 1822.
Bordier du Bignon, Jacques-Charles, 1774-1826.Date: 1822Reference: 95i- Pictures
A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.
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Brasenose College, Oxford: quadrangle, with St. Mary's Church and the Radcliffe Camera behind. Line engraving by J. Basire after J.M.W. Turner.
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.Reference: 20073i- Pictures
A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
James, Abraham., active 1800-1802.Date: 1 October 1800Reference: 18134i- Pictures
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Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs: symbolising the element earth. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: Jan.y 1st 1796Reference: 23950i- Pictures
The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
Date: [c. 1800]Reference: 16140i- Pictures
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Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 1695Reference: 23641i- Pictures
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Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895: the Chinese ambassador (?) as a patient in bed, being treated with an icepack on his head, has a nightmare of the advance of the Japanese army. Coloured woodcut, 1895.
Date: 1895Reference: 565522i- Books
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L'antiquité expliquée, et représentée en figures / [Bernard de Montfaucon].
Montfaucon, Bernard de, 1655-1741.Date: 1719- Pictures
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A fight between two Scythian bravos is ended when Ariane shoots both of them with a bow and arrows. Etching by A. Bosse after C. Vignon.
Vignon, Claude, 1593-1670.Date: [1639]Reference: 42763i- Pictures
The typhus louse shaking hands with Death. Colour lithograph by O. Grin, 1919.
Grin, O., active 1919.Date: [1919]Reference: 536675i- Pictures
France: the countryside in summer. Colour process print after G. Bonmati and G. Michel, 196-.
Date: [between 1960 and 1969?]Reference: 675136i- Pictures
The Colosseum, Rome. Line engraving by F. Morelli, 179-.
Morel, François, approximately 1768-Date: [between 1790 and 1799?]Reference: 2924660i- Pictures
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Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.
Pogorelʹskiĭ, S., active approximately 1920.Date: [1920?]Reference: 535994i- Books
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Scythian friendship: or, the secret history of the Theban Conspiracy.
Date: M.DCC,LXXII. [1772]- Books
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Scythian friendship: or, the secret history of the Theban conspiracy.
Date: M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]- Pictures
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A young artist, sitting among the ruins of mediaeval buildings and drawing a modern country house, holds up his pencil to stop the approaching Chronos, god of time; above, the winged figure of Fame trumpets his genius and awards him a wreath of honour for resisting time. Engraving, 1781.
Date: Feb. 1 1781Reference: 38939i- Pictures
Ceres making love to a horse (Neptune); representing the joining of the land and the sea. Engraving by B. Picart, 1708.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: 1708Reference: 2853401i