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1 process print : reproduction of a lithograph ; image 29.8 x 24.3 cm

Professors C.B. Spruyt and Van Pesch are told by Death that all knowledge comes from him; referring to the change in electoral law concerning the minimum voting age. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.

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Dissertation on first-principles of government. By Thomas Paine, ...

Invalids and people who were mentally ill may refuse food or have difficulty swallowing. This feeding tube administered food to them. It was invented by Dr Henry Edmund Blandford in 1866. The instrument was inserted into the mouth and twisted so the cross bars held the mouth open. Attendants then poured liquid food down the throat of the patient. Dr Blandford suggested it could also be used in cases of tetanus and ‘surgical afflictions of the jaw’ or where feeding though the nose was not possible. 

Such instruments could theoretically have been forcibly used on those on hunger strikes, such as those undertaken by imprisoned suffragettes in the Edwardian period. This feeding tube was made by instrument maker Down Brothers of London.

maker: Down Brothers

Place made: London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Blandford forcible feeding tube, London, England, 1920-1930

The suffrage & the C.D. acts / C.M. Whitehead.

1 print : line block ; image 25.6 x 18 cm

Three men seeking lodgings standing on the doorstep of a house where the charwoman (Benjamin Disraeli) addresses them from the window; representing the enfranchisement of lodgers. Process print, 1878, after J. Tenniel, 1867.

Dissertation on first-principles of government; by Thomas Paine, author of common sense; rights of man age of reason, &c.

Dissertation on first-principles of government. By Thomas Paine, Author of common sense, Rights of Man; age of reason, &c. Deputy to the convention, and secretary to the congress during the American War.

1 process print : reproduction of a lithograph ; image 36.5 x 25.5 cm

Drs. Hermanus Schaepman and Abraham Kuyper, shown as witches, stoke the fire of a cauldron from which emanate devils; symbolising their struggle to institute suffrage, against prevailing resistance in the Dutch second chamber. Reproduction of a lithograph after Van Geldorp, 1901.

1 process print : reproduction of a lithograph ; image 24.4 x 36.4 cm

Doctors and pharmacists surround a mother with child, proffering medicines; symbolising the difference of ideas concerning change of the Dutch electoral law. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.

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Professors C.B. Spruyt and Van Pesch are told by Death that all knowledge comes from him; referring to the change in electoral law concerning the minimum voting age. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.

Dissertation on first-principles of government. By Thomas Paine, ...

Blandford forcible feeding tube, London, England, 1920-1930

The suffrage & the C.D. acts / C.M. Whitehead.

Three men seeking lodgings standing on the doorstep of a house where the charwoman (Benjamin Disraeli) addresses them from the window; representing the enfranchisement of lodgers. Process print, 1878, after J. Tenniel, 1867.

Dissertation on first-principles of government; by Thomas Paine, author of common sense; rights of man age of reason, &c.

Dissertation on first-principles of government. By Thomas Paine, Author of common sense, Rights of Man; age of reason, &c. Deputy to the convention, and secretary to the congress during the American War.

Drs. Hermanus Schaepman and Abraham Kuyper, shown as witches, stoke the fire of a cauldron from which emanate devils; symbolising their struggle to institute suffrage, against prevailing resistance in the Dutch second chamber. Reproduction of a lithograph after Van Geldorp, 1901.

Doctors and pharmacists surround a mother with child, proffering medicines; symbolising the difference of ideas concerning change of the Dutch electoral law. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.

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Professors C.B. Spruyt and Van Pesch are told by Death that all knowledge comes from him; referring to the change in electoral law concerning the minimum voting age. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.

Dissertation on first-principles of government. By Thomas Paine, ...

Blandford forcible feeding tube, London, England, 1920-1930

The suffrage & the C.D. acts / C.M. Whitehead.

Three men seeking lodgings standing on the doorstep of a house where the charwoman (Benjamin Disraeli) addresses them from the window; representing the enfranchisement of lodgers. Process print, 1878, after J. Tenniel, 1867.

Dissertation on first-principles of government; by Thomas Paine, author of common sense; rights of man age of reason, &c.

Dissertation on first-principles of government. By Thomas Paine, Author of common sense, Rights of Man; age of reason, &c. Deputy to the convention, and secretary to the congress during the American War.

Drs. Hermanus Schaepman and Abraham Kuyper, shown as witches, stoke the fire of a cauldron from which emanate devils; symbolising their struggle to institute suffrage, against prevailing resistance in the Dutch second chamber. Reproduction of a lithograph after Van Geldorp, 1901.

Doctors and pharmacists surround a mother with child, proffering medicines; symbolising the difference of ideas concerning change of the Dutch electoral law. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.

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