Stories
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Are doctors medical detectives?
Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.
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Western magic’s fascination with the foreigner
Could modern magic shows be perpetuating damaging cultural stereotypes? Shelley Saggar shows how ‘exotic’ costumes and imagery are far from harmless fun.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
Catalogue
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Landscapes with episodes in Greek myth. Engravings after Hans Bol, 1601.
Bol, Hans, 1534-1593.Date: 1601Reference: 653038i- Pictures
The rape of Europa. Line engraving by F. Rainaldi and P. Bettelini after B. Landi after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
Veronese, 1528-1588.Date: [1810?]Reference: 3046782i- Pictures
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Orpheus and Eurydice; Endymion and Diana (Artemis); the rape of Europa by Jupiter (Zeus). Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.Date: [between 1670 and 1679?]Reference: 11614iPart of: Paintings by Annibale Carracci in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome. Etchings by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.- Pictures
The rape of Europa. Engraving by J. Frey after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 1732Reference: 11722i- Pictures
Portraits of 17th-century painters etc. who worked in England ; use of machines designed by Jacques Besson. Engravings and etchings, ca. 1569-1809.
Reference: 29181i