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x, 362 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Dr. Woodward's shield : history, science, and satire in Augustan England / Joseph M. Levine.

Connected with preparatory drawings for the English translation of J.C. Lavater's Essays on physiognomy, trans. H. Hunter, London: 1789-1798. This design has not been recognised among the published engravings
Thomas Holloway (1748-1827) supervised the artwork for the English version of the book. This included re-engraving many of the works from the original German and French publications. This series of designs (frame nos. 9326T-9551) are mostly preparations for the English version

A Roman soldier throws a javelin over a dead body. Drawing, c. 1793.

A young Zulu warrior, wearing full wedding regalia, carrying a shield and several staves. Photograph, ca.1900.

Diecut show card in the form of a shield, showing a woman hugging a little boy, advertising A & E Carreras' Enolin toothpaste.

1 sheet : black, white and maroon ; 23 x 18 cm

Enolin Tooth Paste : "strong" or "mild" : 1/3d per tube : "the super paste" / A & E Carreras, perfumers.

1 print : halftone ; image 15.3 x 22.7 cm

Boer War: some African people demonstrate their wares to staff and patients from a military hospital, South Africa. Halftone after J. Waugh, 1900.

1 photograph : photoprint, platinum ; 10.3 x 14.6 cm

Sarawak: four Dayak men in a warfare ritual. Photograph.

The law was introduced in the wake of the SARS outbreak to etablish new procedures both for doctors and the public to take in respect of notification and isolation of cases in the event of epidemics of SARS, bird flu, meningitis etc.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 76.5 x 52.4 cm

A doctor in the form of a shield with a smiling face holds hands with a mother and child; representing the protection conferred by the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Cure Law (Revised) in China in 2004. Colour lithograph, 2004.

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Henrici Dodwelli De Parma Equestri Woodwardiana dissertatio. Accedit Thomæ Neli Dialogus inter reginam Elizabetham & Robertum Dudleium, Comitem Leycestriae & Academiae Oxoniensis Cancellarium, in quo de academiæ ædificiis præclare agitur. Recensuit ediditque Tho. Hearne, A.M. Oxoniensis, Qui & Dodwelli Operum editorum Catalogum praemisit.

Sarawak: five Kenyah warriors in a warfare ritual. Photograph.

The third figure, in addition to the laurel branches mentioned in the lettering, also includes two stars paired with crescent moons. In the fourth figure, the animals include the signs of the zodiac Taurus, Leo and Aries, but also a boar, a gryphon and a horse

1 print : etching ; platemark 52 x 37.8 cm

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Dr. Woodward's shield : history, science, and satire in Augustan England / Joseph M. Levine.

A Roman soldier throws a javelin over a dead body. Drawing, c. 1793.

A young Zulu warrior, wearing full wedding regalia, carrying a shield and several staves. Photograph, ca.1900.

Enolin Tooth Paste : "strong" or "mild" : 1/3d per tube : "the super paste" / A & E Carreras, perfumers.

Boer War: some African people demonstrate their wares to staff and patients from a military hospital, South Africa. Halftone after J. Waugh, 1900.

Sarawak: four Dayak men in a warfare ritual. Photograph.

A doctor in the form of a shield with a smiling face holds hands with a mother and child; representing the protection conferred by the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Cure Law (Revised) in China in 2004. Colour lithograph, 2004.

Sarawak: five Kenyah warriors in a warfare ritual. Photograph.

Three shields and a helmet represented in bas-relief as trophies of Octavian (the emperor Augustus). Etching by F. Piranesi, ca. 1778.

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Dr. Woodward's shield : history, science, and satire in Augustan England / Joseph M. Levine.

A Roman soldier throws a javelin over a dead body. Drawing, c. 1793.

A young Zulu warrior, wearing full wedding regalia, carrying a shield and several staves. Photograph, ca.1900.

Enolin Tooth Paste : "strong" or "mild" : 1/3d per tube : "the super paste" / A & E Carreras, perfumers.

Boer War: some African people demonstrate their wares to staff and patients from a military hospital, South Africa. Halftone after J. Waugh, 1900.

Sarawak: four Dayak men in a warfare ritual. Photograph.

A doctor in the form of a shield with a smiling face holds hands with a mother and child; representing the protection conferred by the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Cure Law (Revised) in China in 2004. Colour lithograph, 2004.

Sarawak: five Kenyah warriors in a warfare ritual. Photograph.

Three shields and a helmet represented in bas-relief as trophies of Octavian (the emperor Augustus). Etching by F. Piranesi, ca. 1778.

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