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  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science. Vol. I.

    • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
    Date
    1797
    • Books
    • Online
  • The good samaritan seeing to an unfortunate man's (Christ?) wounds while a priest and Levite walk into the distance. Etching by W. Unger after F.G. Bassano the younger.

    • Bassano, Francesco da Ponte, 1549-1592.
    Reference
    17897i
    • Pictures
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  • Aske's Hospital, Shoreditch, London: the facade. Engraving.

    • Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703
    Reference
    38802i
    • Pictures
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  • Saint Martin of Tours: he divides his cloak with a poor man. Etching after M. Schongauer.

    • Schongauer, Martin, active 15th century.
    Reference
    6554i
    • Pictures
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  • The good samaritan pouring oils on a wounded half-dead man. Line engraving.

    Reference
    17912i
    • Pictures
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  • The blind beggar of Bethnal Green. Mezzotint by W. Ward, 1804, after W. Owen.

    • Owen, William, 1769-1825.
    Date
    April 2, 1804
    Reference
    18216i
    • Pictures
  • Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.

    Reference
    24350i
    • Pictures
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  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles after L. P. Boitard, 1753.

    • Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770.
    Date
    1753
    Reference
    36982i
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  • The good Samaritan tending to a wounded man while a priest and a Levite walk on by. Line engraving by T. Cook, 1809, after W. Hogarth.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    1 May 1809
    Reference
    17911i
    • Pictures
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  • The professors of the Gospel under the strongest obligations to labour to distinguish themselves by an eminent degree of piety and virtue. A sermon preached at St. Thomas's, January 1, 1777, for the benefit of the charity-school in Gravel-Lane, Southwark. By Joseph Towers. Published at the request of the Managers.

    • Towers, Joseph, 1737-1799.
    Date
    MDCCLXXVII. [1777]
    • Books
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  • The British Museum in Montague House: the Great Russell Street facade. Engraving after T. H. Shepherd.

    • Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)
    Reference
    38433i
    • Pictures
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  • The representative of the people of Jetuttara requests Prince Vessantara to leave the city. Watercolour.

    Date
    [1815]
    Reference
    725909i
    Part of
    Episodes in the life of Prince Vessantara. Album of watercolours, 1815.
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  • The good Samaritan tending to a wounded man while a priest and Levite walk away. Line engraving by L. Masson after G. Freman.

    • Freman, G.
    Reference
    17902i
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  • Period. : a feminist zine.

    • Garvey, Sarah
    Date
    [2017?]
    • Books
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a south-east view and a bird's-eye view. Engraving by J. Green after S. Wale, 1761.

    • Wale, Samuel, -1786.
    Date
    1761
    Reference
    36585i
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  • A sermon preached at St. Mary's Church in Oxford, on Thursday, July 2, 1778. on occasion of the anniversary meeting of the governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary: by John Lord Bishop of Oxford. Published at the Request of the Governors, for the Benefit of the Charity.

    • Butler, John, 1717-1802.
    Date
    [1778]
    • Books
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  • Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris: as seen from the river. Line engraving by Perelle.

    • Perelle, Adam, 1638-1695.
    Reference
    21737i
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  • A charitable lady visiting a sick man and his family: with a crest. Line engraving by N.J. Voyez, 1773, after C.D.J. Eisen.

    • Eisen, Charles, 1720-1778.
    Date
    1773 :
    Reference
    17753i
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  • The Virgin Mary and Christ child with saints (the 'Felicini' altar piece). Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after F. Francia, 1494.

    • Francia, Francesco, approximately 1450-approximately 1526.
    Date
    1830
    Reference
    25578i
    Part of
    La Pinacoteca della Pontificia Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna
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  • Two women comforting a fugitive youth while a monk looks in despair. Wood engraving.

    Reference
    17558i
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  • Lame people, war victims and beggars receiving alms at a hospital. Etching after J. Callot.

    • Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.
    Date
    [Gerrit Lucasz. van Schagen?],
    Reference
    18602i
    • Pictures
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  • A beautiful angel drawing attention to a busy hospital ward enclosed in a large heart shape, with the words "Save your hospitals". Chromolithograph after H. F. Ball.

    • Ball, H. F.
    Date
    [1922]
    Reference
    23912i
    • Pictures
  • Christmas benefit at University College Hospital, London. Wood engraving after G. Durand, 1874.

    • Durand, Godefroy, 1832-1896
    Reference
    25123i
    • Pictures
  • Universal charity, the Bond of Christian Unity. A sermon preach'd at Pinners-Hall, March the 9th, 1717/18. By John Gale, M. A. and D.P.

    • Gale, John, 1680-1721.
    Date
    1718
    • Books
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  • A pelican offering her own blood to her young; advertising blood transfusion in the Netherlands. Colour lithograph after L. Sengers, 193-.

    • Sengers, Lode, 1896-1956.
    Date
    [between 1930 and 1939]
    Reference
    997158i
    • Pictures
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