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- Archives and manuscripts
Painting of Livingstone freeing slaves
Date: mid 19th century - late 19th centuryReference: MS.7856/20Part of: Roche, Eleazer Birch (1848-1930), general practitioner and homoeopath- Archives and manuscripts
Photographs of Galton Family and Properties
Date: 19th CenturyReference: GALTON/1/1/9/1/4Part of: Galton Papers- Pictures
An itinerant quack-doctor. Oil painting by an English painter, mid-19th century.
Reference: 45035i- Manuscripts
Wellcome MS Tibetan 114.
Date: 19th century- Books
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A catalogue of pictures collected abroad by Mr. Edmund Glover, who is going to reside at Oporto, Consisting of several valuable painting by Old Palma, Castiglione, Guerchino, Rembrandt, Dominichino, P. Brill, Vandervelde, D. Teniers, Claude, Solimene, Bott, N. Poussin, &c. Also some curious bronzes: Which will be sold by auction, at Mr. Ford's great room in the Hay-Market, on Tuesday the 16th, Wednesdy the 17th, and Thursday the 18th of this instant March. -And on Friday the 19th, and the following days, - will be sold by auction, at Mr. Ford's, a collection of curious old Japan China, in jars, beakers, bowls, dishes, &c. several pieces of the brown edge, and some exceedings fine dresden. Rare old India Japan, in cabinets, chests, &c. beautiful inlaid tables; soem fashionable plate, jewels, watches, snuff-boxes, mathematical instruments, various curiosities, and rich lace heads of the newest pattern: likewise a chamber organ of an exceeding fine tone, two harpsichords, a chariot, &c. The said collections of pictures, China, &c. may be view'd at Mr. Ford's on Friday the 12th, and the following days till the time of sale, which will begin each day exactly at half on hour after eleven o'clock. Catalogues to be had gartis at Mr. Ford's.
Ford, Mr., active 1741-1757.Date: 1742]- Books
Splendeurs et misères : images de la prostitution (1850-1910).
Date: 2015- Pictures
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Electricity: condenser jars, an electro-static generator, and a vase with flowers. Gouache painting.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 47533i- Pictures
A phrenologist comparing his own head with a phrenological bust. Oil painting by Albert W. Holden.
Holden, Albert William, 1848-1932.Date: [1900?]Reference: 45152i- Pictures
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A bracket fungus (Trametes suaveolens): two fruiting bodies growing on wood and a separate one sectioned. Watercolour by R. Baker, 1897.
Baker, R., active 1898.Date: 1897Reference: 21676i- Pictures
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Parasitic fungi (Nyctalis species) growing on decayed Russula fungi. Watercolour by R. Baker, 1889.
Baker, R., active 1898.Date: 1889Reference: 21650i- Books
Dong fang yin xiang : Qiannali hui hua zhan / [Kang le ji wen hua shi wu shu yu Xianggang Shanghai hui feng yin hang you xian gong si he ban ; Xianggang li shi bo wu guan yu Xianggang yi shu guan lian he chou hua] = Impressions of the east : the art of George Chinnery / [jointly presented by Leisure and Cultural Serivces Department, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited ; jointly organized by Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong Museum of Art].
Date: 2005- Pictures
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A surgical operation to remove a malignant tumour from a man's left breast and armpit in a Dublin drawing room, 1817. Watercolour, ca 1913, after a watercolour, 1817.
Date: 1913Reference: 23451i- Pictures
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A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.Date: 1 August 1835Reference: 11869i- Pictures
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A man vaccinating a child surrounded by its mother, family and other children waiting to be vaccinated. Process print after a lithograph (?) after a painting by L. Boilly, 1807.
Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.Reference: 17858i- Pictures
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Mr. Lambkin on his knees begging forgiveness from his loved one. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 12141i- Pictures
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A dentist extracting a tooth from a fashionable female patient who is surrounded by young men. Coloured etching, 1806.
Date: 4 June 1806Reference: 16623i- Books
Uitbundig verleden : de Bourgondiërs door romantische ogen / auteurs van de catalogus Anne Autissier, Jan Dirk Baetens, Magali Briat-Philippe, Eveline Deneer, Patrick De Rynck, Pierre-Gilles Girault, Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin, Garance Naimi, Bart Stroobants.
Date: [2021]- Books
Amour, guerre et beauté : des ducs de Bourgogne aux Habsbourg / auteurs, Anne Autissier [and eight others].
Date: [2021]- Pictures
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Mr. Lambkin giving a speech at his wedding reception. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 12142i- Pictures
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The eldest son of the King of Delhi accompanied by his physician and treasurer. Wood engraving after W. Carpenter.
Carpenter, William, 1818-1899.Reference: 21454i- Pictures
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Children sit round a table reading a newspaper while another child tries to prevent a woman from entering the room. Process print after Alexander H. Burr.
Burr, Alexander Hohenlohe, 1835-1899.Date: 4 April 1891Reference: 29212i- Audio
Elevations and revelations : Hatchlands Park.
Date: 2000- Pictures
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Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Watercolour after J. Gillray, 1802.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 11754i- Books
Ghost in the shell : photography and the human soul, 1850-2000 : essays on camera portraiture / Robert A. Sobieszek.
Sobieszek, Robert A., 1943-2005.Date: [1999], ©1999- Pictures
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The interior of a shop of a family of apothecaries - d' Ailly. Photoprint by V.A Bruckmann, 1904, after an oil painting by J. Jelgerhuis Rienksz, 1818.
Jelgerhuis, J. (Johannes), 1770-1836.Date: 1818-1904Reference: 15961i