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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.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    [ca, 1840?]
    Reference
    20044i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Buon appetito, your holiness / Mariangela Rinaldi and Mariangela Vicini ; translated from the Italian by Adam Victor.

    • Rinaldi, Mariangela.
    Date
    2000
    • Books
  • Nine physiognomies of popes and prelates. Drawing, c. 1791, after Raphael.

    • Raphael, 1483-1520.
    Date
    ca. 1791
    Reference
    29755i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A pope with a model of St Peter's enthroned on clouds, threatening a dragon with a spear; representing the Roman Catholic church fighting againsy heresy. Engraving by C. Grandi after A. Orazi.

    • Orazi, Andrea Antonio, 1670-approximately 1749.
    Date
    1700-1799
    Reference
    29522i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Gerbert von Aurillac und das Quadrivium : Untersuchungen zur Bildung im Zeitalter der Ottonen / von Uta Lindgren.

    • Lindgren, Uta, 1941-
    Date
    1976
    • Books
  • Wellington and Peel, in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching, 1829.

    Date
    [1829]
    Reference
    662572i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The supper of Saint Gregory. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Vasari.

    • Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574.
    Reference
    11780i
    Part of
    La Pinacoteca della Pontificia Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1763.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    June ye 25 1735 [i.e. 1763]
    Reference
    20040i
    • Pictures
  • Thomas Keppoch, the Bishop of Carlisle, kneels before the devil and the Pope who place their hands on his head and present him with a mitre. Engraving, 1746.

    Date
    Oct 31 1746
    Reference
    579060i
    • Pictures
  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1735.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    25 June 1735
    Reference
    20042i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The supper of Saint Gregory: Saint Gregory seated at a table with his companions; a monk is pouring some wine. Engraving by G. Tomba after N. Angiolini after G. Vasari.

    • Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574.
    Date
    [between 1800 and 1899]
    Reference
    574845i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The Institut National des Aveugles-nés, Paris: interior during the visit of Pope Pius VII. Aquatint with etching by Marlé, 1805.

    • Marlé, active 1805.
    Date
    1805
    Reference
    545557i
    • Pictures
  • Bap. Platinae Cremonensis, Opvs de vitis ac gestis svmmorvm Pontificvm, ad sva vsqve tempora dedvctvm, et avctvm deinde accessione rerum gestarum eorum Pontificum qui Paulo II. in quo Platina desinit vsque ad Clementem VII successrunt / Et nunc postremò multò locupletius redditum per ... Onuphrium Panuinium, qui seriem historiae ... continuauit vsque ad Pium IIII ... Accessit item breue ... omnium Romanorum Pontificum et schismatum chronicon ab eodem Onuphrio nunc primum Alia quoque eiusdem Platinae addita sunt.

    • Platina, 1421-1481.
    Date
    1562
    • Books
  • A full view of popery, in a satyrical account of the lives of the popes, &c. From the Pretended Succession of St. Peter, To the Present Pope Clement XI. Wherein All the Impostures and Innovations of the Church of Rome appear in their true Colours, and all their Objections, Cavils, &c. are fully Answer'd and Confuted. The whole being Interspers'd with several Pasquils. To this is added, A confutation of the Mass, and a vindication of reform'd devotion. In two parts. Written by a learned Spanish convert, and Address'd to his Countrymen: now faithfully translated from the second and bes edition of the original.

    • Valera, Cipriano de, 1532?-1625.
    Date
    [1704]
    • Books
    • Online
  • De pontificibus medicis aut medicorum filiis commentarium : notis auctum sanctissimo domino nostro Pio septimo / Johannes Baptista Bomba.

    • Bomba, Giovanni Battista.
    Date
    1821
    • Books
    • Online
  • The Pope, the devil and the Young Pretender lie prostrate near the coffin of the Duke of Cumberland lined with two rows of lit candles and mourning figures. Engraving by WW. after J.C., 1765.

    • W. W.
    Date
    [Oct 31 1765]
    Reference
    581533i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Donner un avis sur le préservatif quand on est Pape c'est une conviction religieuse ou c'est parler sans connaître? / Libération, l'info est un combat.

    Date
    [between 2010 and 2014?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online
  • Various rites and cermonies for the burial of a pope, including the catafalque during the funeral and the funeral procession. Engraving by B Picart, 1724.

    • Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.
    Date
    1724
    Reference
    44257i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Cardinal Pecci, the Camerlengo, verifying the death of Pope Pius IX. Wood engraving, 1878.

    Date
    1878
    Reference
    30199i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The Institut National des Sourds-Muets, Paris: interior during the visit of Pope Pius VII. Aquatint with etching by Marlé, 1805.

    • Marlé, active 1805.
    Date
    1805
    Reference
    545508i
    • Pictures
  • Il corpo del Papa / Agostino Paravicini Bagliani.

    • Paravicini Bagliani, Agostino.
    Date
    [1994], ©1994
    • Books
  • The pope reclining forward to kiss the floor with the words in French: 'Fight AIDS: condoms not skull caps'; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph.

    Date
    [between 1990 and 1999]
    Reference
    672998i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Burdett, Peel, O'Connell and Wellington in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull with a rope; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.

    • Sharpshooter, A.
    Date
    [April 1829]
    Reference
    663317i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The levels of hell depicted as circular stone tiers; purgatory lies outside its walls. Engraving.

    Reference
    25063i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1735.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    1735
    Reference
    20045i
    • Pictures
    • Online
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