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The town and a changing civilisation / by David V. Glass.
Glass, D. V. (David Victor), 1911-1978.Date: [1935]
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People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957.Reference: 24007i
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Palazzo Durazzo-Pallavicini, Genoa: the façade on Via Balbi. Etching by G.L. Guidotti after G. Torricelli after A. Giolfi.
Giolfi, Antonio, 1721 or 1722-1796.Date: [1769?]Reference: 2924466i
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The Aventine hill, Rome, seen from the Capitol. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1825Reference: 2922172i
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The Viminal hill, Rome, seen from the slopes of the Quirinal. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1825Reference: 2922178i
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A musician playing the clarinet outside a town-house is given threepence by a footman and asked to move on, but the musician asks for more money. Steel engraving after R. Seymour.
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 32005i
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The Esquiline hill, Rome, seen from the Colosseum. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1825Reference: 2922175i
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The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 20634i
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No more (cruel) optimism / editors: Linda Zagidulina, Pietra Galli, Debbie Poon, Sandy Hoonjan.
Date: [2023]
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An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with two assistants and a monkey, selling his wares to an excitable crowd. Coloured wood engraving by J. Oortman.
Reference: 20933i
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Three episodes about horticultural abnormalities and one episode about a young doctor on a visit. Letterpress and wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1865.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1865Reference: 15683i
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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
Reference: 16529i
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The Quirinal hill, Rome, seen from the Palatine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1825Reference: 2922177i
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Russo-Japanese War: a street scene in Tokyo with wounded Japanese sitting in a cart. Pen and ink drawing by D. MacPherson, 1904.
MacPherson, Douglas, 1871-1951.Date: 1904Reference: 23864i
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A Bombay square: some men carry sedan chairs and others smoke. Coloured aquatint after R.M. Grindlay, 1826.
Grindlay, Robert Melville.Date: 1826Reference: 25407i
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A bath-house containing six men and an onlooker, perhaps an allegory of the four humours and five senses. Photolithograph after A. Dürer, c. 1496.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 18228i
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The angel of death (a winged skeletal creature) drops some deadly substances into a river near a town; representing typhoid. Watercolour, 1912, after R. Cooper.
Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957.Reference: 24010i
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The amphitheatre, Verona, called the Arena. Engraving by G. Testolini.
Testolini, Gaetano, active 1760-1818.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 2924467i
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The amphitheatre, Verona, called the Arena. Engraving by D. Valesi, 1744, after A. Cristofali.
Cristofali, Adriano, 1718-1788.Date: [1744]Reference: 2924468i
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Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 6 March 1800]Reference: 20582i
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The Capitoline hill, Rome, seen from the foot of the Aventine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1825Reference: 2922174i
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The Caelian hill, Rome, seen from the Palatine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1825Reference: 2922173i
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Psychiatric disorder and the urban environment : report of the Cornell Social Science Center / Berton H. Kaplan, editor ; in collaboration with Alexander H. Leighton, Jane M. Murphy and Nicholas Freydberg.
Cornell Social Science Seminar on Psychiatric Disorder and the Urban Environment (1965-66 : Ithaca, N. Y.)Date: [1971], ©1971
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The Palatine hill, Rome, seen from the Aventine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1825Reference: 2922176i
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An apothecary grinding a mixture with his pestle and mortar, amidst a working town. Woodcut by Brant(?).
Reference: 16075i

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The town and a changing civilisation / by David V. Glass.

People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

Palazzo Durazzo-Pallavicini, Genoa: the façade on Via Balbi. Etching by G.L. Guidotti after G. Torricelli after A. Giolfi.

The Aventine hill, Rome, seen from the Capitol. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

The Viminal hill, Rome, seen from the slopes of the Quirinal. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

A musician playing the clarinet outside a town-house is given threepence by a footman and asked to move on, but the musician asks for more money. Steel engraving after R. Seymour.

The Esquiline hill, Rome, seen from the Colosseum. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.

No more (cruel) optimism / editors: Linda Zagidulina, Pietra Galli, Debbie Poon, Sandy Hoonjan.

An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with two assistants and a monkey, selling his wares to an excitable crowd. Coloured wood engraving by J. Oortman.

Three episodes about horticultural abnormalities and one episode about a young doctor on a visit. Letterpress and wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1865.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.

The Quirinal hill, Rome, seen from the Palatine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

Russo-Japanese War: a street scene in Tokyo with wounded Japanese sitting in a cart. Pen and ink drawing by D. MacPherson, 1904.

A Bombay square: some men carry sedan chairs and others smoke. Coloured aquatint after R.M. Grindlay, 1826.

A bath-house containing six men and an onlooker, perhaps an allegory of the four humours and five senses. Photolithograph after A. Dürer, c. 1496.

The angel of death (a winged skeletal creature) drops some deadly substances into a river near a town; representing typhoid. Watercolour, 1912, after R. Cooper.

The amphitheatre, Verona, called the Arena. Engraving by G. Testolini.

The amphitheatre, Verona, called the Arena. Engraving by D. Valesi, 1744, after A. Cristofali.

Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.

The Capitoline hill, Rome, seen from the foot of the Aventine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

The Caelian hill, Rome, seen from the Palatine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

Psychiatric disorder and the urban environment : report of the Cornell Social Science Center / Berton H. Kaplan, editor ; in collaboration with Alexander H. Leighton, Jane M. Murphy and Nicholas Freydberg.

The Palatine hill, Rome, seen from the Aventine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

An apothecary grinding a mixture with his pestle and mortar, amidst a working town. Woodcut by Brant(?).