Allegorical and sacred subjects, and hermits. Drawings, ca. 1740.

Date

1740

Double images: hunting scene, western allegorical female muse figure. Ink drawing.

Death tramples on three female allegorical figures representing sensual pleasures. Pen and ink drawing, ca. 1700.

Date

1700

Page 160: two images, one of a traditionally dressed woman and an allegorical figure. Watercolour drawing.

Allegory of civilisation and AIDS in the character of Richard II. Ink drawing by N. Garland, 1988.

Date

28 January 1988

Allegory of the beginning: a woman holding two burning orbs (heaven and earth?). Drawing, ca. 1740.

Date

1740

A baroque sculpture forming an allegory of dentifrice at the entrance to an international toothpowder exhibition. Drawing by A. Oberländer, ca. 1900.

Date

[1900?]

Allegory of patience: Job, afflicted with sores, is asked by his wife "Where is your patience?". Drawing, ca. 1740.

Date

1740

Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.

Date

1740

Allegory of the world (secularity, worldliness): Pan holding a staff and a pan-pipe; people making their way through a maze representing life. Drawing, ca. 1740.

Date

1740

Allegory of terror: the Emperor Domitian frightens his guests by introducing a monster, half beast half man, holding a whip, into a banquet. Drawing, ca. 1740.

Date

1740

An allegorical female is sitting in a chariot drawn by two lions, she is holding a bunch of grapes and a cornucopia; representing plenty. Coloured etching.

An allegorical female decorated with flower garlands and the feathers of the Prince of Wales is sitting in a chariot drawn by tigers; representing peace. Coloured etching.

Allegory of dreams: a man half skeleton and half flesh is reclining on the ground holding the caduceus and a horn; Jacob's dream of the ladder in the background. Drawing, ca. 1740.

Date

1740

Alexander the Great demonstrates his trust in his physician Philip by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him even after receiving a letter alleging that Philip is trying to poison him. Drawing by or after E. Le Sueur, 16--.

Date

[between 1600 and 1699?]

An analytical view of the animal ecomony. Calculated for the students of medicine, as well as private gentlemen: interspersed with many allegories, and moral reflections, drawn from the subject, to awaken the mind to an elevated sense of the Great Author of nature ... / by Isaac Ball.

Date

1808

The Hackney scuffle, in a conference between a gentleman, a tradesman, a farmer, and others, for and against the intended Turnpike. Wherein all the allegations on both sides are fairly stated, and an impartial inference drawn from the whole.

Date

[1738]

The new pleasing instructor: or, entertaining moralist. Consisting of select histories, Chiefly drawn from Real Life. With a Variety of Essays, Relations, Visions, and Allegories, Collected from The most eminent English Authors. The whole comprehending the most striking Pictures of Virtue and Vice. Alphabetically Digested. To which is prefixed, An Essay on Reading and Declamation. By Mr. Gentleman.

Date

M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]

A declaration of egregious popish impostures : to with-draw the harts of his Maiesties subiects from their allegeance, and from the truth of Christian religion professed in England, vnder the pretence of casting out of deuils. Practised by Edmunds, alias VVeston a Iesuit, & diuers Romish priestes his vvicked associates. Where-vnto are annexed the copies of the confessions, and examinations of the parties themselues, which were pretended to be possessed, and dispossessed: taken vppon oath, before the high commissioners, for causes ecclesiasticall.

Date

1604

A declaration of egregious popish impostures : to with-draw the harts of his Maiesties subiects from their allegeance, and from the truth of Christian religion professed in England, vnder the pretence of casting out of deuils. Practised by Edmunds, alias VVeston a Iesuit, & diuers Romish priestes his vvicked associates. Where-vnto are annexed the copies of the confessions, & examinations of the parties themselues, which were pretended to be possessed, and dispossessed: taken vppon oath before his Maiesties commissioners, for causes ecclesiasticall.

Date

1605

A declaration of egregious popish impostures : to with-draw the harts of her Maiesties subiects from their allegeance, and from the truth of Christian religion professed in England, vnder the pretence of casting out deuils. Practised by Edmunds, alias Weston a Iesuit, and diuers Romish priestes his wicked associates. Where-vnto are annexed the copies of the confessions, and examinations of the parties themselues, which were pretended to be possessed, and dispossessed, taken vpon oath before her Maiesties commissioners, for causes ecclesiasticall.

Date

1603

Loyalty to His Majesty King George, recommended in eight sermons upon the following subjects: the advantages design'd for mankind by the Christian religion. A serious Admonition to the Members of the Church of England, deduc'd from God's Dealings with his People Israel. The fatal Consequences of over-much Wickedness; preach'd upon the Execution of some Gentlemen concern'd in the late Rebellion. God the Author of Peace, and wicked Men the Authors of Confusion. A Thanksgiving Sermon for the quashing the late unnatural Rebellion. On his sacred Majesty's happy Accession to the Throne. Seasonable Advice to seditious Male-Contents. The Advantages of good Government, and the Blessings we derive from the happy Revolution. Publish'd for the Benefit of unhappy Youths, and other inconsiderate Persons, who are drawn from their Allegiance by the artful Delusions of ill-designing Men, Enemies to our Happy Establishment both in Church and State. By Rich. Synge, Chaplain at Somerset-House.

Date

MDCCXX. [1720]

The neat duties (all discounts and abatements deducted) of all merchandize specify'd in the book of rates, Begun in the 12 of Car. II. With the several Variations to this present Year 1708. Both in decimal and vulgar arithmetick: Each Article in the Decimals being Calculated to a Ten Thousand Part of a Farthing; for the Merchants in one Line, the Duty and Draw-Back may be seen exactly cast up: And at the end of Merchandize Inwards are Tables for Her Majesties Officers, (or others) if they please, viz. 1/3 1/2 2/3, I whole, 2 whole, 3 whole Subsidies, and the Impost 90, 9 2/3, and 96; answering all the several Rates, specified in the last Book of Rates, from One Penny Half Penny, to Three hundred and Sixty Pounds. The Turky or Levant Company's Duties, viz. Impositions, Consulage, how many Hundred Weight goes to a Ton of each Commodity, and the Freight they have for the same Tonnage; from Constantinople, Smyrna, Allepo and Cyprus. Never yet made Publick. And also a small treatise of decimals, Or, that most Compendious Arithmetick in Practice, made Easie. By Tho. Langham of London, Broker.

Date

1708

The works of Homer, the celebrated Grecian poet: including new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey; Those very celebrated and universally-admited Epic or Heroic Poems. The Iliad-in twenty four Books-Being composed on the Subject of the memorable Siege of Troy-Interspersed with the most beautiful Allegories, and containing a most sublime Description of the Battles between the Greeks and Trojans, during a Ten Years Siege, in which the Great and Valiant Achilles, the principal Hero of the War, after his Reconciliation with Agamemnon, slew Hector with his own Hand, and afterwards dragged the Corpse at his Chariot. Wheels round the Walls of Troy. Comprizing a great Variety of valuable and useful Maxims on Military Discipline, Stratagem, Exploits in Civil Affairs, Politics, Virtue, Resolution, Prudence, Oeconomy, and, in short, respecting all the various Offices and Duties of Human Life; and affording the most important, agreeable, and entertaining Instruction, conveyed in the most lively Manner, to Mankind in general. The Odyssey-Composed also in Twenty-Four Books-And containing, among a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, a most magnificent and delightful Description of the Voyages and Adventures of the wise and venerable Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in Greece, and one of the Princes who conducted the Siege of Troy, during his Absence for Twenty Years from his Queen Penelope. Exhibiting not only a just Picture of the Ancient Grecians, but a beautiful System of Morality, Wisdom, Fortitude, Perseverance, Moderation and Temperance, instructive to all Degrees of Men, and filled with striking Images, Similies, Examples, and Precepts of Civil and Domestic Life. Including also that other excellent Piece of Homer, entitled The battle of the frogs and mice -in Three Books-A very beautiful, ingenious, satyrical, and interesting Production, replete with Wit, Humour, and Entertainment, allegorically describing the Valour and Intrepidity of those sagacious Animals. Carefully translated from the original Greek. In the Execution of this New and Improved Edition, all former Editors and Commentators on Homer will be carefully consulted and attended to, viz. Eustathius, Dacies, Ogilby, Chapman, Dryden, Parnel, Warburton, &c. particularly that hitherto most esteemed Translation by Alex. Pope, Esq. Illustrated with large and valuable notes, Critical, Historical, Philosophical, Allegorical, Poetical, Scholastic, Political, Moral, Entertaining, Philological, and Explanatory. Comprehending the most salutary Reflections and useful Remarks, with many important References to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal History, &c. &c. - To which will be carefully added, The Arguments at large to every Book or Chapter, and the most Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Homer; as also A New Essay on Homer's Battdes, &c. and a Complete Geographical Table of the Towns, &c. in Homer's Catalogue of Greece. Being the most perfect and beautiful Edition of Homer ever published, and calculated to accommodate and please every Class of Readers. The whole embellished with A most Superb Set of Grand Quarto copper-plates, Designed and engraved by the most Capital Artists: so that these Elegant Engravings will alone be worth more than the Purchase-Money of the whole Work. The whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the New and Beautiful Quarto Edition of Telemachus,-The New Abridgment of the Roman History, &c. &c.

Date

[1780]

Origanum dictamnus L. Lamiaceae Dittany of Crete, Hop marjoram. Distribution: Crete. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘... hastens travail [labour] in women, provokes the Terms [menstruation] . See the Leaves.’ Under 'Leaves' he writes: ‘Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, ... brings away dead children, hastens womens travail, brings away the afterbirth, the very smell of it drives away venomous beasts, so deadly an enemy is it to poison, it’s an admirable remedy against wounds and Gunshot, wounds made with poisoned weapons, draws out splinters, broken bones etc. They say the goats and deers in Creet, being wounded with arrows, eat this herb, which makes the arrows fall out of themselves.' Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (c. 100 AD, trans. Beck, 2005), Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants all have this information, as does Vergil’s Aeneid where he recounts how Venus produced it when her son, Aeneas, had received a deadly wound from an arrow, which fell out on its own when the wound was washed with it (Jashemski, 1999). Dioscorides attributes the same property to ‘Tragium’ or ‘Tragion’ which is probably Hypericum hircinum (a St. John’s Wort): ‘Tragium grows in Crete only ... the leaves and the seed and the tear, being laid on with wine doe draw out arrow heads and splinteres and all things fastened within ... They say also that ye wild goats having been shot, and then feeding upon this herb doe cast out ye arrows.’ . It has hairy leaves, in common with many 'vulnaries', and its alleged ability to heal probably has its origin in the ability of platelets to coagulate more easily on the hairs (in the same way that cotton wool is applied to a shaving cut to hasten clotting). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.