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An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

Date

[ca, 1840?]

Reference

20044i

The adoration of the magi next to a ruined temple. Etching by chevalier H. d'Avice after N. Poussin.

Reference

24020i

The Roman emperor Valens pours money into a coffer; an officer is arrested and led to prison. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

Date

1622

Reference

26679i

Part of

XL Emblemata miscella nova

The serpent sacrifice. Chromolithograph.

Reference

26226i

Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast: a visit by the King and Queen to the Clarence ward. Pen and ink drawing, 1903.

Reference

15556i

Solomon judges the case of the two harlots and their babies. Line engraving by J. Eisenhardt, 1847, after E. von Steinle.

Date

1847

Reference

18567i

Le mal heréditaire / Docteur Cabanès.

Date

[1926-1927]

Les morts mystèrieuses de l'histoire / [Augustin Cabanés].

Date

1923

Nebuchadnezzar, gone mad, grovels like a beast of the earth; he gropes for his crown. Engraving, 16--.

Reference

20126i

And his Majesty doth accordingly will and command, that from the time of publishing this proclamation, none presume to repair to his Majesties court to be healed of that disease ... : given at our court of Hampton-Court, the fourth day of July, 1662. in the fourteenth year of our reign : God save the King.

Date

1662

Kurtze chinesische Chronologie oder Zeit-Register aller chinesischen Käyser, von ihrem also vermeinten Anfang der Welt bis hieher zu unsern Zeiten, des nach Christi unsers Seligmachers Gebuhrt 1696sten Jahres, in einer richtigen Ordnung von Jahren zu Jahren, mit ihren rechten Characteren, Nahmen und Beschreibungen, auch mit zween chinesischen erklährten Tafeln der vornehmsten Geschichten von ihrem Anbeginn der Welt / Gezogen aus der chineser Kinder-Lehre Siao Ul Hio oder Lun genande. Nebst einem kurtzen Anhang einer moscowitischen Reise-Beschreibung zu Lande nach China, in den 1693, 94 und 95sten Jahren, von dem moscowitischen Abgesandten Hn. Isbrand gehalten. Vorgestellt von Christiano Mentzelio.

Date

1696

The London Hospital, Whitechapel: King Edward VIII and Queen Alexandra in the Finsen Light room. Process print after a drawing by A. Forestier, c.1903.

Reference

39502i

Letter from Moreau to Bonaparte : Les nouvelles à la main, Ventose an. 12, no. 2, or Paris, March 19, 1804, contains what follows.

Date

1804?

The three kings bring offerings to the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Dorigny after C. Maratta.

Reference

24059i

Louis and the prince : a story of politics, intrigue and royal friendship / Geordie Greig.

Date

1999

Statue of Edward VI at St Thomas's Hospital, Southwark, London. Coloured lithograph by H. Tiffin, 1849, after a sculpture by P. Scheemaeckers.

Date

1 January 1849

Reference

25213i

The chair on which the Duke of York (1763-1827?) died. Coloured engraving, ca. 1827.

Date

1827?

Reference

568329i

A king sits drinking at a table surrounded by revelling courtiers and a man about to vomit. Engraving after J. Jordaens, c. 1640.

Date

1640

Reference

26305i

Esther faints before the fierceness of Ahasuerus. Engraving by J. Frey after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino, ca. 1628.

Date

1628

Reference

20083i

Page 14: two portraits of Raja Dena Nath and Mohid Khan King of Kabul. Watercolour drawing.

Reference

27018i

Osiris and Odin : the origin of kingship / by Andrew Rugg-Gunn ; with nine illustrations, including three plates and three maps.

Date

1940

The Nabob of Arcot with his Prime Minister. Gouache drawing.

Reference

28718i

The Vision.

Date

1705

Nashrullah Khan (son of the Amir of Afghanistan) having a tooth extracted in front of the soldiers of his father's army. Wood engraving after W. Small after J.A. Gray.

Reference

16767i

Der Herrscher : Leitbild und Abbild in Mittelalter und Renaissance / herausgegeben von Hans Hecker.

Date

[1990], ©1990