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Concept

Spirits

Images

  • A theurgist performing rituals to exercise divine powers on earth. Coloured aquatint.
  • A scholar in a surgeon's workroom with a jar of spirits containing Saint Michael defeating a dragon with a barbued tonge; representing the scholar's knowledge of chemistry enabling surgeons to heal, by setting the beneficent force of alkalis against the noxious force of acids. Etching by P.P. Bouche, ca. 1686.
  • A drunken man and woman lean against pillars leading to a giant distillery with attendant demon; miscellaneous characters round as border. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
  • An Indian man selling alcohol to a couple. Gouache drawing.
  • Chinese woodcut: The spirit of the liver
All images (9)

Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0004078: Netsuke of spirit of departed priest in form of skeleton, Japan

    | Date: 24 October 1934 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/33/33
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books

    The Buddhist conception of spirits / by Bimala Churn Law.

    Law, Bimala Churn, 1892-1969. | Date: 1936
    • Ephemera

    John Wallace & Co. : tea, wine and spirit merchants : brewers & manufacturers of aerated waters : cigar importers : agents for Wm. Younger & Co. Ltd.

    John Wallace & Co. | Date: [1917?]
    • Books

    A visual guide to drink / Ben Gibson, Patrick Mulligan, and Pop Chart Lab.

    Gibson, Ben | Date: [2015]
    • E-books
    • Online

    Pandemonium and parade : Japanese monsters and the culture of yōkai / Michael Dylan Foster.

    Foster, Michael Dylan, 1965- | Date: c2009
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