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Subject

Relaxation

Images

  • An écorché face showing the state of the facial muscles during relaxation. Stipple engraving by H. Singleton (?) after G.T. Stubbs after G. Stubbs, 1815.
  • An Englishman sits smoking a hookah as an Asian man approaches making a salaam. Engraving by W. Humphrys, c. 1834, after W. Daniell.
  • Men playing backgammon outside in an arbor, nearby others smoke and drink. Etching by J. de Visscher after A. van Ostade.
  • An écorché face showing the state of the facial muscles during relaxation. Stipple engraving by H. Singleton (?) after G.T. Stubbs after G. Stubbs, 1815.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients engaged in reading, writing, playing cards, etc. Coloured lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    I find water relaxing / Stefan Alexander.

    Alexander, Stefan | Date: [2018]
    • Audio

    Hope & help for your nerves.

    | Date: 2012
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Men playing backgammon outside in an arbor, nearby others smoke and drink. Etching by J. de Visscher after A. van Ostade.

    Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685. | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 24699i
    • Pictures

    A man resting, with two horses; a herdsman looking after cattle and a goat while they drink in a pool; representing evening. Etching by T. Major, 1744, after N. Berchem.

    Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620-1683. | Date: Nov.r 1 1830 | Reference: 2476781i
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    • Online

    Pastimes: listening to a precocious chiild, creating a sculpture, a life class for women, and an artist's reminiscences of plein-air painting in Italy. Coloured lithograph after H. Monnnier, 1839.

    Monnier, Henry, 1799-1877. | Date: [1839] | Reference: 33131i
    Part of: Récréations
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