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A woman showing two examples of gestures described by J.J. Engel in his Ideen zu einer Mimik (1785). Etching by J.L. Copia, 1795.
Date: 1795Reference: 18033i- Books
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An essay upon pronunciation and gesture, founded upon the best rules and authorities of the ancients, ecclesiastical and civil, and adorned with the finest rules of elocution.
Le Faucheur, Michel, 1585-1657.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Pictures
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A man leaves the house followed by his servant, a woman weeps and a girl in the background makes a gesture. Mezzotint by Wilson after C. Troost.
Troost, Cornelis, 1697-1750.Reference: 28612i- Pictures
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A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: a large-chested nurse in a "hush" gesture, surrounded by red crosses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965.Date: 1916Reference: 24130i- Pictures
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A white woman is being forced to work a treadmill as a black woman makes a derisory gesture and a white man with a whip watches over. Coloured aquatint.
Reference: 37843i- Books
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The art of speaking in publick: or an essay on the action of an orator; as to his pronunciation and gesture. Useful in the senate or theatre, the court, the camp, as well as the bar and pulpit.
Le Faucheur, Michel, 1585-1657.Date: 1727- Books
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A new American selection of lessons in reading and speaking. Consisting of sacred, moral, and historical extracts; humorous, entertaining, and descriptive pieces; select sentences and maxims; poetry, dialogues, &c. To which are added, elements of gesture, illustrated wit copper-plate engravings. Designed for the use of schools. By Joseph Dana, A.B.
Dana, Joseph, 1769-1849.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Pictures
The Earl of Sussex and Lord Cathcart stand within an embattled enclosure like a prison as armed soldiers appear on the left and two men gesture towards them on the right. Etching, 1748.
Date: December 8th 1748Reference: 579264i- Pictures
An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a skull in his lowered right hand. His left arm is raised with his hand held in a gesture of eloquence. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498-approximately 1580.Date: [between 1550 and 1559]Reference: 26249i- Pictures
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The prisoner, who is kept in a small slatted wooden box is has his judgement read to him while he stretches his hands through the slats in a pleading gesture. Lithograph after J.P. Moynet.
Moynet, Jean-Pierre.Reference: 43272i- Pictures
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A muscular young man wearing black latex trousers and angel s wings, standing on a mudheap with his arm raised and his fist clenched in a combative gesture; representing gay men in the fight against AIDS. Colour lithograph, 199-.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999?]Reference: 666454i- Pictures
Vertical black railway track; a branch veers off to the left with a green train on it, stick figures standing on each side; to the right is a yellow hand in a stop gesture. Watercolour with gouache by N. Goullet, 1955.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 9/11/55 [9 November 1955]Reference: 2969694iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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The deity En no Ozunu (?) in a leaf cloak, with his hands in mudra (a sacred gesture), seated on a rock, with a wine-jar on a low table before him and the sun and moon above. Colour woodcut, ca. 1900.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 37884i- Pictures
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The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is shown seated on a chair with the asp wriggling up her left arm while her maid shields her face in a gesture of horror and grief. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 175-, after C. Netscher.
Netscher, Caspar, 1635 or 1636-1684.Date: [between 1750 and 1759]Reference: 42962i- Books
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The academic speaker; or, a selection of parliamentary debates, orations, odes, scenes, and speeches, from the best writers, proper to be read and recited by youth at school. To which are prefixed, elements of gesture; ... The third edition. By John Walker, ...
Date: 1797- Books
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Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand c : composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof : whereunto is added, Chironomia, or, The art of manual rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand ... : with types, or chyrograms, a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument / by J.B., Gent. philochirosophus.
J. B. (John Bulwer), 1606-1656Date: 1644- Pictures
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Hands in various gestures, including prayer and benediction. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.Reference: 33958i- Pictures
A young woman in a state of undress is disturbed with a young man by an angry older man (her father?): they denounce each other while the lover hides behind a screen and the young woman's maid makes a gesture. Engraving by Petit after L. Boilly, 179-.
Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.Date: [between 1790 and 1799]Reference: 674945i- Books
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The orator: or, English assistant. Being an essay on reading and declamation. Wherein the principles of both are laid down, with examples from the best authors; under the several heads off empha[l]is, c[l]imax, modulation, pauses, breaks, transitions, tones, and gesture. By Francis Gentleman.
Gentleman, Francis, 1728-1784.Date: Printed in the year MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Digital Images
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p. 151, 24 hand gestures, from Chirologia...
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The style of gestures : embodiment and cognition in literary narrative / Guillemette Bolens ; foreword by Alain Berthoz.
Bolens, Guillemette.Date: 2012- Books
Āsana evaṃ yogamudrāyeṃ : prācīna Bhārata meṃ śarīra-sādhanā śāstra kī paddhati / Ravindra Pratāpa Siṃha.
Siṃha, Ravindra Pratāpa, 1960-Date: 2004- Books
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Lessons in elocution: or A selection of pieces, in prose and verse, for the improvement of youth in reading and speaking. By William Scott. To which are prefixed, Elements of gesture, illustrated by four elegant copper-plates; and Rules for expressing, with propriety, the various passions and emotions of the mind.
Date: M,D,CC,XCVII. [1797]- Pictures
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A family sitting round the dinner table, the mother serving food, the father making an authoritative gesture towards his praying son, the two daughters sit next to the mother while the youngest child is fed next to the fire place; representing Concord. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 38954i- Pictures
A merciless man refusing a request. Etching by R. Brichet, 1784, after J.F. de Göz.
Goez, Joseph Franz, Freiherr von, 1754-1815.Date: [1784?]Reference: 2958195i