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Graphic Gallery: Blue

Earth is often known as the ‘blue planet’. Its blue skies and seas represent the air we breathe and the water we drink.

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The wishing-tree of Loch Maree

So many pilgrims have visited a tiny loch island in Scotland that the site of their devotions, a fragile and crumbling tree, has collapsed under the ministrations of thousands of hands leaving thanks for its rumoured health-bestowing powers.

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In the tracks of Derek Jarman’s tears

Researcher E K Myerson shares her moving encounters with the personal papers of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.

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The colonist who faced the blue terror

India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.

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  • A man carrying Holy water with his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Kavady-kerah and wife: holy water carrier. Gouache drawing.
  • Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: pilgrims seeking cures from the holy water. Wood engraving.
  • A pilgrim carrying holy water from the Jumna. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A holy man holding a stick and a water pot. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A lame man being doused in water from a holy spring to procure a miraculous cure, in Sarepta (?), Russia. Pen and ink drawing, 1903.
  • A funeral in a French church: the coffin is sprayed with holy water and lowered into the grounds of the church. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • The fountain of the temple of Diana at Pela in Istria used as a holy water stoup in the church at Pela. Pencil drawing by C.F.H. Werner, 1853.
  • Sacred Spring, Zuñi, New Mexico. Coloured lithograph.
  • The Dormition of the Virgin Mary. Chromotypograph.
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