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A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.

Abbaye Royale du Val de Grace, Paris: facade. Etching.

A building flying a pennent from a tower, surrounded by small houses; above, the appearance of three nuns holding rosaries, one of them carrying a cross. Engraving, 16--.

A Nun (Sister of Charity) bloodletting a seated patient. Line engraving.

A nun holding a medicine spoon with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.

A nun brings some refreshment to a feverish patient, with a poem by Legouvé. Coloured lithograph by J.P. Moynet, 1846.

Queen Alexandra visiting the sick in the Patrick ward, Dublin Hospital for the Dying, Ireland. Pen and ink drawing by A. Kemp Tebby, 1903, after H. Mills.

Red Cross workers carrying wounded bugler into hospital / Underwood & Underwood, N.Y.

1er commandante : si de saloperies tu ne veux point choper, le latex tu dois utiliser / Soeurs de la Perpétuelle Indulgence - Couvent du Nord.

Hospice de la Charité, Rheims, France: staircase. Lithograph by A. Dauzats after himself.

Two nuns in a pharmacy, one holds a sick child on her lap: Sisters of Charity Order. Mezzotint by T. Oldham Barlow, 1862, after H. Browne.

Comédie-Française, Paris: a corridor used as a hospital in the Franco-Prussian War showing nurses treating patients. Photograph by Fiorillo after A. Brouillet, 1870.

Liliane Juchli : ein Zeitdokument der Pflege.

Mettray penal colony, Mettray, France: the infirmary. Tinted lithograph by Sauvé & Faivre after A. Thierry.

SPI Couvent de Belgique / Couvent Belge des Soeurs de la Perpétuelle indulgence.

A nun from the Hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome. Coloured line engraving by C. Duflos le père.

Across God's frontiers : Catholic sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 / Anne M. Butler.

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Nuns

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Images referencing Nuns

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Liliane Juchli : ein Zeitdokument der Pflege.

Mettray penal colony, Mettray, France: the infirmary. Tinted lithograph by Sauvé & Faivre after A. Thierry.

SPI Couvent de Belgique / Couvent Belge des Soeurs de la Perpétuelle indulgence.

A nun from the Hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome. Coloured line engraving by C. Duflos le père.

Across God's frontiers : Catholic sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 / Anne M. Butler.

Nuns

Images from the collections

Images referencing Nuns

Works from the collections

Liliane Juchli : ein Zeitdokument der Pflege.

Mettray penal colony, Mettray, France: the infirmary. Tinted lithograph by Sauvé & Faivre after A. Thierry.

SPI Couvent de Belgique / Couvent Belge des Soeurs de la Perpétuelle indulgence.

A nun from the Hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome. Coloured line engraving by C. Duflos le père.

Across God's frontiers : Catholic sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 / Anne M. Butler.

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