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A crowned skeleton with three arrows. Etching, 1806.
Date: 1 September 1806Reference: 26261i- Pictures
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A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others' deaths. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 16058i- Pictures
A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
James, Abraham., active 1800-1802.Date: 1 October 1800Reference: 18134i- Books
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Costume des anciens peuples. A l'usage des artistes / Par M. Dandré Bardon ; contenant les usages religieux, civils, domestiques & militaires des Grecs, des Romains, des Israélites & des Hébreux, des Egyptiens, des Perses, des Scythes, des Amazones, des Parthes, des Daces, des Sarmates & autres peuples tant orientaux qu'occidentaux, &c.
Dandré-Bardon, Michel François, 1700-1783.Date: 1784-1786- Pictures
A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.
Reference: 16062i- Digital Images
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A man scything. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
Eadweard Muybridge- Pictures
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A man scything. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.Date: 1887Reference: 27867iPart of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements- Pictures
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A lone, wounded, French grenadier greets a skeletal death figure with the words "I am ready". Lithograph, 1829, by N.-T. Charlet.
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.Date: 1829Reference: 24445i- Pictures
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Aesculapius (representing medicine) routing death, Ceres (?) supplying milk to the starving. Drawing attributed to J.-C. Bordier du Bignon, 1822.
Bordier du Bignon, Jacques-Charles, 1774-1826.Date: 1822Reference: 95i- Pictures
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Brasenose College, Oxford: quadrangle, with St. Mary's Church and the Radcliffe Camera behind. Line engraving by J. Basire after J.M.W. Turner.
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.Reference: 20073i- Pictures
The typhus louse shaking hands with Death. Colour lithograph by O. Grin, 1919.
Grin, O., active 1919.Date: [1919]Reference: 536675i- Pictures
France: the countryside in summer. Colour process print after G. Bonmati and G. Michel, 196-.
Date: [between 1960 and 1969?]Reference: 675136i- Pictures
The Colosseum, Rome. Line engraving by F. Morelli, 179-.
Morel, François, approximately 1768-Date: [between 1790 and 1799?]Reference: 2924660i- Pictures
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Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs: symbolising the element earth. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: Jan.y 1st 1796Reference: 23950i- Books
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Scythian friendship: or, the secret history of the Theban Conspiracy.
Date: M.DCC,LXXII. [1772]- Books
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Scythian friendship: or, the secret history of the Theban conspiracy.
Date: M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]- Pictures
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A fight between two Scythian bravos is ended when Ariane shoots both of them with a bow and arrows. Etching by A. Bosse after C. Vignon.
Vignon, Claude, 1593-1670.Date: [1639]Reference: 42763i- Pictures
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A young artist, sitting among the ruins of mediaeval buildings and drawing a modern country house, holds up his pencil to stop the approaching Chronos, god of time; above, the winged figure of Fame trumpets his genius and awards him a wreath of honour for resisting time. Engraving, 1781.
Date: Feb. 1 1781Reference: 38939i- Pictures
The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
Date: [c. 1800]Reference: 16140i- Pictures
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Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 1695Reference: 23641i- Pictures
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Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.
Pogorelʹskiĭ, S., active approximately 1920.Date: [1920?]Reference: 535994i- Books
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Supplément aux Recherches sur l'origine, l'esprit et les progres des arts de la Grece; sur leur connexion avec les arts et la religion des plus anciens peuples connus; sur les monumens antiques de l'inde, de la perse, du reste de l'asie, de l'europe et de l'egypte. Contenant des Observations nouvelles, sur L'Origine des Idees employees dans les anciens Emblemes religieux; sur les Raisons qui les firent choisir; sur les suites du Deluge universel; sur les Origines des Scythes, des Chinois & des Indiens; sur la Religion primitive de ces peuples; sur celle des anciens Perses, &c. &c.
Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719-1805.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Pictures
Ceres making love to a horse (Neptune); representing the joining of the land and the sea. Engraving by B. Picart, 1708.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: 1708Reference: 2853401i- Ephemera
Wohltätigkeitsmarke : Bayerischer Landesverband zur Bekämpfung der Tuberkulose : Bayer Blumentag Nürnberg 7 Juni 1913 : 5 Pf.
Date: 1913- Pictures
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Saturn, seated right, is threatened by his three children Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. Engraving by G. Bonasone after G. Romano, ca. 1560.
Romano, Giulio, 1499-1546.Date: [1560?]Reference: 570760i