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Beating the bodysnatchers

When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.

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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.

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Drawing the human animal

We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.

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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens

The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.

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  • Cornelis Hendrik à Roy. Lithograph by C. C. A. Last after J. A. Kruseman.
  • Portrait of A. C. Klebs.
  • William Harvey. Etching by C.A. Waltner, 1887, after C. Janssen.
  • A musteloid telagon. Coloured etching by J. C. M. Barreau after A.C. Vauthier.
  • A man in a rage. Drawing, c. 1789, after C. Le Brun.
  • A man with long thin legs and a woman with a long thin body. Coloured etching by C V. after C C.
  • Robert Willan. Photograph by A. C. Cooper.
  • A unicorn. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • A vulture. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • A bull. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
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