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Friars

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  • Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.
  • Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: the ceremony of immersion. Pencil drawing by R. Cleaver.
  • A fat friar sitting on an open fireplace and frying a drumstick. Etching by Charles West Cope.
  • Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: the shrine and sacred well. Wood engraving by H. Lanos.
  • A friar giving food to lame people and to a mother and her two children. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
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Catalogue

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    A fat friar sitting on an open fireplace and frying a drumstick. Etching by Charles West Cope.

    Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 29813i
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    Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: the ceremony of immersion. Pencil drawing by R. Cleaver.

    Cleaver, Reginald, active 1894. | Reference: 20399i
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    A meal in a refectory in Switzerland: friars ostentatiously say grace, while travellers at another table listen. Wood engraving by R. Brend'amour, 1878.

    Brend'amour, R. (Richard), 1831-1915. | Date: April 27 1878 | Reference: 2823152i
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    Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: the shrine and sacred well. Wood engraving by H. Lanos.

    Lanos, Henri. | Reference: 20403i
    • Books

    Health, sickness, medicine and the friars in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Angela Montford.

    Montford, Angela, 1938- | Date: 2004
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