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Images about Wealth

64 images from works
  • Christ stands among sick people ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching after Rembrandt, 1649.
  • A wealthy man at his dinner table is offered a clyster by a servant. Lithograph by Tal-Zar.
  • Charity being given to poor hungry beggars by a rich household. Engraving by L. Audran after S. Bourdon.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • The dissection of the body of a miser in the presence of St Anthony of Padua: the miser's heart is found not in his body, but in a casket with his money. Engraving by G. Canuti after Girolamo da Treviso.
  • Christ among sick people and the Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Wood engraving by H. Linton after T. Beech (?) after Rembrandt, 1649.
  • The adoration of the magi: a king kneels before the infant Jesus, seated on Mary's lap. Engraving by E. Fessard after C.J. Natoire.
  • The Roman emperor Valens pours money into a coffer; an officer is arrested and led to prison. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • Five tombs containing skeletons of historical exemplars of wisdom, war, beauty, strength and riches; an allegory of change, decay and death. Engraving after A.P. van de Venne, ca. 1655.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Lithograph after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
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    The Roman emperor Valens pours money into a coffer; an officer is arrested and led to prison. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

    Christoph Murer | Date: 1622 | Reference: 26679i
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    The Italian social fabric symbolised by a chain of social types, with all relations of dependence ultimately relating back to the devil. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, 1691.

    Giuseppe Maria Mitelli | Date: 1691 | Reference: 17932i
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    A quack claims he can cure a man in the three minutes before his train leaves. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

    Abel Faivre | Date: 22 March 1902 | Reference: 17152i
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    A woman beleaguered by four enemies; representing Faith resisting Death, Schism, the World and the Devil. Engraving by Hieronymus Wierix after Maarten de Vos, 156-.

    Maerten de Vos | Date: [between 1560 and 1569?] | Reference: 26754i
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    Ananias drops dead after having secretly withheld part of his wealth from the communal fund of the apostles. Colour process print after Raphael.

    Raphael | Reference: 24785i
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