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Concept

Lifting and carrying

Images

  • A hand lifts a ball. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • God appears to Noah and his family; three cherubs hold him aloft. Etching after Raphael.
  • A man with an injured back after lifting a crate of heavy metal bolts; with diagrams of the approved and disapproved methods of lifting. Colour lithograph after K-S.
  • The cross bearing Christ is hoisted up before a multitude of lamenters and soldiers. Engraving by N-H. Tardieu after B. Audran after C. le Brun.
  • A man using his knees to lift, another bending over to lift: manual handling techniques in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for the World Health Organisation, 2000.
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    Christ on the way of the cross; the two Maries sorrow with the swooning Virgin. Engraving.

    | Reference: 23024i
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    A clothed woman carrying a chair and fan puts the chair down, sits on it, opens the fan and waves it about. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2005244i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
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    The Assumption of the Virgin Mary; below the apostles crowd around her empty tomb. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after Agostino Carracci.

    Carracci, Agostino, 1557-1602. | Reference: 25352i
    Part of: La Pinacoteca della Pontificia Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna
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    Health and safety: a hook carrying a load, to represent the necessity of weighing loads of uncertain weight rather than guessing their weight. Photograph with gouache, 194-(?).

    | Date: [between 1940 and 1949?] | Reference: 29101i
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    A naked woman carrying a water pitcher on her shoulder, bending to place it on the ground then beginning to straighten up. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2005237i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
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