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The Dutch financial crisis of 1720: the city of Amsterdam represents the voice of reason and resists disastrous speculation, while investors elsewhere are ruined . Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812357iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
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Three silhouette line figures with four further figures within holding pictures relating to Indian wedding ceremonies representing an AIDS prevention advertisement for families by GAP-SIRMCE. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 677275i- Pictures
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Wisdom shows Britannia the measurements of the globe; figures representing other continents stand watching. Engraving by W. Swift after W.M. Craig.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.Reference: 25918i- Books
The four continents / Kent Monkman.
Monkman, KentDate: [2017]- Pictures
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The emblematic figure of a man representing secularisation, technical innovation, educational reforms and liberal politics in the United Kingdom. Lithograph, ca. 1830.
Date: [1830?]Reference: 2856742i- Digital Images
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Rules for acupuncture prohibitions, Chinese woodcut, 1443
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Four decorative Maori figures within a red oval representing an advertisement for Whakapuakitanga, a support group for young gay or bisexual Māori men; advertisement by the NZ AIDS Foundation and Te Roopu Tautoko Trust. Colour lithograph by Paul Henckel [?], 1993.
Date: [19]93Reference: 669372i- Pictures
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Mandala with the eight-handed Uṣṇīṣavijayā as a Buddhist deity of long life. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
Reference: 47073i- Books
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An essay on the demonstration of the human structure, half as large as nature, in four tables. From the pictures painted after dissections, for that purpose. Disposed in such a Manner, as to represent gradually all the Capital Parts of the Human Body in their natural Situation, as they appear in Dissection when the Sanguiferous Vessels are injected. Calculated To convey a clearer artificial Idea of the Animal Oeconomy than has hitherto appeared in any other Anatomical Figures. By Charles Nicholas Jenty, A. M. Professor of Anatomy and Surgery.
Jenty, Charles Nicholas.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
A newly discovered and possibly the earliest known pictorial representation of Parkinsonian (?) encephalitis lethargica / by G. Vandendriessche.
Vandendriessche, G.Date: 1991- Pictures
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Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
Larmessin, Nicolas de.Reference: 44562i- Pictures
Attributes of Cimara (gNod-sbyin rTsiu-dmar-po) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
Reference: 47090iPart of: Fifteen banners from a Tibetan Protector chapel.- Pictures
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A woman representing philosophy. Etching by B. Audran the elder, c. 1700, after Raphael.
Raphael, 1483-1520.Reference: 25986i- Pictures
Attributes of dPal-Idan Lha-mo (Rematī) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
Reference: 47083iPart of: Fifteen banners from a Tibetan Protector chapel.- Pictures
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Jambūdvīpa, the central continent of the middle world in Jain cosmology. Watercolour.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 575181i- Pictures
Justice with her attributes. Engraving by J. Frey, 1725, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
Domenichino, 1581-1641.Date: [1725]Reference: 3086004i- Pictures
Anatomical figures with detachable parts. Colour lithographs by American Manikin Co., ca. 1890.
Date: [1890?]Reference: 2133374i- Pictures
Predella with three scenes of Saint Roch, and figures of Saint Peter, Christ as Salvator Mundi, Saint Laurence and Saint Paul. Oil painting by a French (?) painter.
Date: [between 1580? and 1620?]Reference: 45996i- Archives and manuscripts
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Wellcome Apocalypse
Date: c.1420Reference: MS.49- Pictures
The game of goose applied to the countries of the world. Engraving by Antoine de Fer after Louis Richer.
Richer, Louis.Date: [between 1652 and 1673]Reference: 35129i- Pictures
The dynastic marriage of William of Orange and Mary Stuart: above, they are brought together before a bust of Hercules; below, their wedding in London on 4 November 1677. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1678.
Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708.Date: [1678?]Reference: 3223737i- Pictures
A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Etching by or after G. Fortuna.
Fortuna, Giovanni, 1535-1611.Reference: 33803i- Pictures
The dance of death. Lithograph.
Reference: 28949i- Pictures
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A fashionable lecturer demonstrates the art of physiognomy through reference to busts. Etching, 1765.
Date: 1765Reference: 34515i- Pictures
The wheel of Fortune, showing the rise and fall of European powers. Etching and letterpress, ca. 1689.
Date: [1689?]Reference: 2136945i