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Two money-lenders counting their money and keeping their accounts, one wears spectacles. Stipple engraving by T. Cheesman, 1791, after Q. Matsys.

Mourning brooche showing a graveyard scene.

Brahman. Gouache drawing.

Yoruba Ibeji figures, representing twins

Two couples in a dance position. Ink drawing.

Mourning brooches containing the hair of a deceased relative.

Dhakate Bajirava Saheb. Coloured lithograph, 1888.

Indian fortune-teller with client. Gouache drawing.

Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose whenever he saw her. Line engraving by J.C. Levasseur, 1769, after H. Collin de Vermont, 1727.

A woman posing in a photographic studio, wearing a bridal? dress and veil, in front of a plain backdrop.

Two Bulgarian women wearing national dress.

A Zulu medicine woman or shaman practising in Basutoland, South Africa. Halftone after a photograph by L. Fairclough.

A young Kashmiri girl posing naked, seated on some fabric.

A heavily jewelled Mahalakshmi with two parrots. Coloured transfer lithograph by A.R. Raghunath, 1897.

Krishna spilling the milk maids pots. Chromolithograph.

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Jewelry

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Images referencing Jewelry

Works from the collections

A Zulu medicine woman or shaman practising in Basutoland, South Africa. Halftone after a photograph by L. Fairclough.

A young Kashmiri girl posing naked, seated on some fabric.

Mourning brooche showing a graveyard scene.

A heavily jewelled Mahalakshmi with two parrots. Coloured transfer lithograph by A.R. Raghunath, 1897.

Krishna spilling the milk maids pots. Chromolithograph.

Jewelry

Images from the collections

Images referencing Jewelry

Works from the collections

A Zulu medicine woman or shaman practising in Basutoland, South Africa. Halftone after a photograph by L. Fairclough.

A young Kashmiri girl posing naked, seated on some fabric.

Mourning brooche showing a graveyard scene.

A heavily jewelled Mahalakshmi with two parrots. Coloured transfer lithograph by A.R. Raghunath, 1897.

Krishna spilling the milk maids pots. Chromolithograph.

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