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After the suicide of Seneca the Younger, the Emperor Nero orders the arrest of the suicide of Seneca's wife Pompeia Paulina. Oil painting by an Italian painter, ca. 1750.
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The Christ Child painting pictures (the Last Judgment, the Assumption of the Virgin and a scene from hell) on the inner wall of the believer's heart. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
Wierix, Antonie, -1604.Date: [1600?]Reference: 31761iPart of: Cor Jesu amanti sacrum- Pictures
Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.
Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.Date: 1909Reference: 45905i- Pictures
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A surgeon extracting the stone of folly. Oil painting by Pieter Huys, ca. 1561.
Huys, Pieter, 1519-1581.Date: [1561?]Reference: 45046i- Pictures
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A female figure at an easel is helped by another with a compass; representing perspective and geometry in art. Coloured stipple engraving, 1786.
Date: 1 July 1786Reference: 25991i- Pictures
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A man sits and paints a picture of the exiled Adam and Eve; his wife suckles a baby; representing the thirtieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.
Meyer, Conrad, 1618-1689.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26378i- Pictures
Difficulties and horrors of life shown in cells of an underground grotto. Gouache by W. Kurelek, ca. 1953-1954.
Kurelek, William, 1927-1977.Date: [between approximately 1953 and 1954]Reference: 3025695iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
The seven ages of man, represented by vehicles appropriate to each age. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1967.
Lewis, Muriel, active approximately 1966-1968.Date: July 67 [July 1967]Reference: 3000212iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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An old man dozing in a chair; representing the eightieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.
Meyer, Conrad, 1618-1689.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26389i- Pictures
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Cherubs and demons hold up pictures in front of a youth; a woman embroiders; representing the age of twenty. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16---.
Meyer, Conrad, 1618-1689.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26377i- Pictures
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Aesculapius and other ancients are presented with exotic materia medica from the far east, which are turned into medicines in a pharmaceutical elaboratory. Oil painting by Johannes Prey, 1791.
Prey, Johannes Zacharias Simon, 1749-1822.Date: 17 7/16 91 [i.e. 16 July 1791]Reference: 466059i- Pictures
The personification of the art of painting, supported by Cardinal Girolamo Buonvisi, arrives on a triumphal car at Mount Parnassus where she is greeted by the muses. Etching by P. Testa, ca. 1642.
Testa, Pietro, 1611-1650.Date: 1642Reference: 3162929i- Pictures
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Aesculapius and Hygieia, with Hercules fighting the hydra; representing medicine. Watercolour painting.
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A man caresses a woman; representing the sense of touch. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, c. 1650.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26947i- Pictures
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The triumph of the arts through the patronage of Francesco Maria Febei. Etching by P. Aquila, 167-.
Aquila, Pietro, active 17th century.Date: [between 1670 and 1679?]Reference: 11607iPart of: Paintings by Annibale Carracci in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome. Etchings by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.- Pictures
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The Thames as a gateway to foreign trade routes. Etching by J. Barry, 1791.
Barry, James, 1741-1806.Date: May 1 1791Reference: 12117i- Pictures
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A female allegory of painting being crowned by Cupid. Engraving.
Reference: 33061i- Pictures
Page 160: two images, one of a traditionally dressed woman and an allegorical figure. Watercolour drawing.
Reference: 27524i- Pictures
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A giant claw pierces the breast of a sleeping naked woman, another naked woman swoops down and stabs the claw with a knife; representing the surgical treatment of breast cancer. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957.Reference: 24003i- Pictures
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A street carnival in Bogotá, with a battle between personifications of medicine and disease. Watercolour by F.-D. Roulin, 1822/1828.
Roulin, François Désiré.Date: [1822/1828]Reference: 28930i- Pictures
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The figure of Philosophy appearing to Boethius. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after C. Ciappori after a 15th-century painting.
Boethius, -524.Date: [1858]Reference: 91i- Pictures
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The five senses and death. Watercolour by Elizabeth Painter, 1957.
Painter, Elizabeth, English watercolour painter, active 1937-1957.Date: 1957Reference: 460376i- Pictures
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A woman personifying the art of painting. Engraving by A. Testa after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
Guercino, 1591-1666.Reference: 33126i- Pictures
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A young man holding a stylus and a drawing, being shown a drawing of Fame by a female figure personifying Painting. Wash drawing by F. Dekker after G. Reni.
Reni, Guido, 1575-1642.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 33691i- Pictures
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The vivisector asked to choose between head and heart. Photogravure, 1886, after an etching by M.J. Holzapfl after a painting by Gabriel von Max, 1883.
Max, Gabriel Cornelius von, 1840-1915.Date: [1886]Reference: 528621i