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Images about Divination

45 images from works
  • A man on horseback consulting a fortune-teller or gipsy. Engraving.
  • A Romany fortune-teller is reading the palm of a young woman suffering unrequited love; two other Romany women are leaning over a fence and children are sitting around a fire. Etching by P.W. Tomkins after H.W. Bunbury, 1791.
  • Folio 31 recto, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • Indian fortune-teller with client. Gouache drawing.
  • Four scenes all involving water: trial by water, people using divination rods, and different types of rods. Engraving.
  • A Turkish oracle; the torture wheel of Pope Pius VI. Engraving.
  • Mary Squires the fortune teller foretells the future to Sir John Hill: she indicates that she has support from the Lord Mayor of London. Etching, 1753.
  • [Wellcome MS. Batak 331834].
  • A woman telling a man's fortune. Watercolour by A. E. Chalon.
  • Br̥hatsāmudrikaśāstra / strīpuruṣalakṣaṇa,Paṇḍitanārāyaṇaprasādamiśrakr̥tabhāṣāṭīkāsahita.
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Works from the collections

248 works

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    Mother Bunch's closet newly broke open containing rare secrets of art and nature, Tried and Experienced By Learned Philosophers, And recommended to all ingenious Young Men and Maidens: Teaching them all, a certain way how to get good Wives and Husbands. Part The First.

    | Date: 1800
    • Archives and manuscripts

    MS.1422

    | Date: c.1755
    • Manuscripts

    Dufeux, Jean Baptiste

    | Date: 1771; 1775
    • Books
    • Online

    The Dutch fortune-teller : discovering XXXVI several questions which old and young, married-men and women, batchelors and maids, delight to be resolved of / brought into England by John Booker.

    | John Booker | Date: [1693?]
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0013205: A Xhosa diviner, South Africa.

    | Date: November 1953 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/118/30
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Related topics

Astrology
Numerology
Medicine, Traditional
Poetry
Fortune-tellers
Jewish literature
Alchemy
Palmistry
Magic
Dreams

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