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The Dormition of the Virgin Mary, surrounded by the apostles. Engraving by B. Eredi after C. Maratta.

Reference

21253i

A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a man's back: they are surrounded by anxious family and friends. Etching by A. Fantuzzi, ca. 1542, after G. Romano.

Date

[1542?]

Reference

23028i

Adam Walker, a natural philosopher, performing scientific experiments. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1796.

Date

29 March 1796

Reference

12078i

A naked man lies with his eyes closed with one foot touching a lit candle held by a golden cupid; he lies on his side floating above an array of gold gift-wrapped presents among other items with one arm raised towards a glowing gold star with a gold cloud bearing a cupid, a personified gold moon and a falling teddy bear; includes the message in Italian: 'excluded because of AIDS'; one of a series of posters by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz/Aide Suisse contre le SIDA/Aiuto AIDS Svizerro. Colour lithograph by Etienne Francey and Daniel Ammann.

Date

[between 1990 and 1999]

Reference

675045i

Two female figures standing on either side of drapery bearing the title of Vesling's Syntagma anatomicum: beyond, the anatomy theatre of the University of Padua. Engraving by Giovanni Georgi, 1647.

Date

1647

Reference

25026i

Mary enters her Dormition holding a candle, surrounded by the apostles. Engraving.

Reference

21251i

The Dormition of the Virgin Mary. Chromotypograph.

Reference

21255i

Textiles: tapestry weaving, a weaver working by the light of a candle in a reflective sconce. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

Reference

43963i

Wachs und Kerze : ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte dreier Jahrtausende / von Reinhard Büll und Ernst Moser.

Date

1974

A man looking through a magnifying glass at a picture of a monkey, whose flatulence extinguishes the flame of a candle; representing the pleasures of the sense of sight. Engraving, 17--.

Reference

27128i

Freemasons' symbols, from architectural instruments to cosmic symbols, with an eye looking downward. Etching, 1788.

Date

1788

Reference

27184i

Christ appears to Saint John the Evangelist with eyes aflame and a sword in his mouth. Woodcut, 15--.

Reference

24954i

A surgeon treating a patient's foot, in the background another surgeon is examining a patient in a surgery. Lithograph after A. Brouwer.

Reference

22678i

A black x-shaped cross with a yellow line woven around it and three lit candles across the centre; below, a frowning priest stands next to a dark doorway. Watercolour with gouache by N. Goullet, 1955.

Date

21/10/55 [21 October 1955]

Reference

2969689i

Part of

Adamson Collection

A naked man lies with his eyes closed with one foot touching a lit candle held by a golden cupid; he lies on his side floating above an array of gold gift-wrapped presents among other items with one arm raised towards a glowing gold star with a gold cloud bearing a cupid, a personified gold moon and a falling teddy bear; includes the message in German: 'excluded because of AIDS'; one of a series of posters by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz/Aide Suisse contre le SIDA/Aiuto AIDS Svizerro. Colour lithograph by Etienne Francey and Daniel Ammann.

Date

[between 1990 and 1999]

Reference

675039i

The circumcision of Christ. Etching by M. Küssell after J.W. Baur.

Reference

22008i

An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden anatomy theatre. Engraving by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.

Date

1615

Reference

24757i

The evil effects of intemperance on a man and his family. Lithograph by Alvey, c. 1840, after T.C. Wilson.

Date

[1840?]

Reference

108i

Part of

Star

Michelangelo drawing from an anatomized cadaver. Photogravure after M. J. A. Mercié.

Reference

24231i

A surgeon treating a patient's foot, in the background another surgeon is examining a patient in a surgery. Lithograph by E. Meyer after A.Brouwer.

Reference

22621i

A woman sleeps at a table as one man lights his pipe and another tries to wake her. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, c. 1774, after G. Dou.

Date

1 January 1774

Reference

24839i

The presentation of the Virgin. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G.A. Sirani.

Reference

11792i

Part of

La Pinacoteca della Pontificia Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna

Six fashionable young men after a drinking session, all with girls in their arms. Engraving, c. 1796.

Date

7 March 1796

Reference

26872i

A woman in bed about to be cupped by a surgeon for love-sickness. Gouache, ca. 1700.

Date

1700

Reference

2818721i

Las Casas sick with a fever being taken care of by two Peruvian indians. Tinted aquatint.

Reference

17308i