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A soldier in 19th-century costume (hussar?) defending the peoples of the world by spraying flies with a spray gun of Flit insecticide. Colour lithograph, 1930.
Date: [193?-?]Reference: 676494i- Pictures
Hélène Edlund.
Axel Eliassons Konstförlag.Date: [20th century]Reference: 3308123iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
Prima pars descriptionis itineris navalis in Indian Orientalem, earvmqve rervm qvæ navibvs Batavis occvrrervnt: vna cvm particvlari enarratione conditionum, morum, œconomiæ populorum, quos adnavigarunt. Præterea de numismatis, aromatibus, speciebus et mercibus ibidem venalibus. Eorumque pretio. Insuper de insularum apparentijs, tractibus, orisque regionum maritimis, vna cum incolarum ad vivum delineatione. Cuncta diversis tabulis illustrata : omnibus mare navigantibus & rerum exterarum studiosis, lectu periucunda / Authore G.M.A. VV. L.
Lodewycksz, Willem, active 16th century.Date: 1598- Pictures
William Pitt the younger standing full face wearing mock-Elizabethan dress with a feathered hat, his left hand extended and the other holding out a stick. Etching after G. M. Woodward, 1791.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: June 20 1791Reference: 585378i- Books
Botany in the Low Countries : (end of the 15th century - ca. 1650) Plantin-Moretus Museum exhibition / [editors F. de Nave and D. Imhof].
Date: 1993- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his jaw in the background. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers II.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [1777]Reference: 16474i- Pictures
A Dutch physician taking the pulse of a female patient, a urine flask in a wicker basket is on a table beside them. Engraving by P. Basan, 16--, after G. Ter Borch, the younger.
Ter Borch, Gerrit, the younger, 1617-1662.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 21645i- Pictures
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Ambroise Paré using a ligature on an artery of an amputated leg of a soldier, during the Siege of Metz, 1553. Photogravure after T. Chartran, 1889.
Chartran, Théobald, 1849-1907.Date: 1889Reference: 22690i- Archives and manuscripts
M0006838: An operation on a cyst
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/11Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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A woman breast feeding her baby in the family's home and workshop; perhaps a comparison to the Holy Family. Engraving by J. Le Bas and P. Martini, 1772, after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.Date: 1772Reference: 17426i- Pictures
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A man sits on a stool smoking a pipe, behind a man relieves himself against the wall. Engraving by P. Chenu, 1754, after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [1754]Reference: 24719i- Pictures
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Jambūdvīpa, the central continent of the middle world in Jain cosmology. Watercolour.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 575181i- Pictures
Mary Toft (Tofts) appearing to give birth to rabbits in the presence of several surgeons and man-midwives sent from London to examine her. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [22 December 1726]Reference: 17342i