23 results filtered with: Scythes
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Men grinding scythes in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1866, after J. Palmer, 1865.
Palmer, John, active 1856-1887.Date: 1866Reference: 33936i
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A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.
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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
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A crowned skeleton with three arrows. Etching, 1806.
Date: 1 September 1806Reference: 26261i
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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
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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
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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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Two Japanese peasants on a village path, the man carries a scythe and the woman has a baby on her back. Gouache painting.
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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 lithograph by G. Engelmann.
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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
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Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.
Du Guernier, Louis, 1677-1716.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 25978i
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Nymphs in a field among cornucopias; workers scythe wheat; representing horticulture and agriculture. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, c. 1810, after H. Corbould.
Corbould, H. (Henry), 1787-1844.Date: [c.a 1810]Reference: 25678i
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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
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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
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A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay. Engraving by N-G. Dupuis, 1759, after J-B-M. Pierre.
Pierre, Jean-Baptiste Marie, 1714-1789.Date: 1759Reference: 26007i
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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
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A naked man walks through a rocky landscape with a scythe; representing summer. Etching by J. Coelemans, 1703, after L. Cardi da Cigoli.
Cigoli, Ludovico Cardi da, 1559-1613.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 26485iPart of: Recueil d'estampes d'après les tableaux des peintres les plus célèbres d'Italie, des Pays-Bas et de France, qui sont à Aix dans le cabinet de M. Boyer d'Aguilles
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Three men on a haymaking holiday are lined up by the fence, each of them is holding a scythe, Colour wood engraving after R. Caldecott, 1881.
Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886.Date: 1881Reference: 33243i
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The branches of agriculture and husbandry linked by lines showing their progression; (below) workers scythe wheat. Line engraving after Richard Blome (?), 1686.
Blome, Richard, 1635-1705.Date: [1686]Reference: 494114i
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Makers of scythes and sickels hammering a metal blade on an anvil. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 34945i
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A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.
Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957.Date: [1912?]Reference: 24009i- Pictures
Death as a skeletal figure wielding a scythe: representing fears concerning the Vaccination Act 1898 which removed penalties for not vaccinating against smallpox. Wood engraving by Sir E.L. Sambourne, 1898.
Sambourne, Linley, 1844-1910.Date: 1898Reference: 14318i
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La haz perdió su filo : a la vuelta se encontrará información acerca del Mafarside en el tratamiento de la sífilis ... / Parke, Davis & Compañía.
Date: [1942?]