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1 photomechanical reproduction
Technique:
halftone, color

taken from a book

294 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves, 14 pages : frontispiece (portrait), plate ; (8vo)
2 illustrations (frontispiece is Beckett's portrait, same he uses on another medical tract / second is an allegorical, personification of surgery with a table of…

"Pieta' with crucified female martyrs; the Pieta' at centre; smaller scenes surrounding it: top centre: God the Father with angels distributing crowns; bottom centre: Christ leading a group of female Saints, carrying a cross over their shoulders;…

A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators
1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 20.1 x 32.8 cm

John Bull is crying: "Murder! if you get it down it will ruin my constitution", the paper that is being forced down his throat is entitled: "Catholic Emancipation". Wellington says: "Hold - him fast - Bob - I'll soon make him swallow it - there it…

MS Royal 2 B VII, fol. 242r.

Watercolour drawing of a recurrent cancerous ulcer invading the left breast of a woman aged 49 years. The recurrent growth was of four years' duration. It began to ulcerate two years before the drawing was made. From an Out-Patient.

The martyr tied to a column, two men on either side shearing her breasts, an angel holding a laurel above her in top left corner
Engraving
Height: Height: 155 millimetres
Width: Width: 98 millimetres
Inscription content: Signed in lower left…

Height: Height: 453 millimetres (trimmed) (trimmed)
Width: Width: 317 millimetres

Inscription type: inscription
Inscription content: Lettered in Latin in lower margin, in a cartouche: "S. AVGVSTINVS / Episcopus Hiponensis, ac Doctor Eccl.æ ... /…

1 print : photogravure, printed in colours ; image 12.6 x 7.7 cm; S. Agata, verg. e mart. Lunedi 5 Febbraio; On verso, biography of the saint and prayer in Italian with imprimatur dated Milan 1898