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Concept

Nuns

Images

  • A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
  • Abbaye Royale du Val de Grace, Paris: facade. Etching.
  • A building flying a pennent from a tower, surrounded by small houses; above, the appearance of three nuns holding rosaries, one of them carrying a cross. Engraving, 16--.
  • A Nun (Sister of Charity) bloodletting a seated patient. Line engraving.
  • A nun holding a medicine spoon with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
All images (108)

Catalogue

    • Books

    Liliane Juchli : ein Zeitdokument der Pflege.

    Juchli, Liliane. | Date: 1998
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Mettray penal colony, Mettray, France: the infirmary. Tinted lithograph by Sauvé & Faivre after A. Thierry.

    Thierry, Alexandre (Jean Alexandre), 1810–1866. | Date: 1844 | Reference: 18385i
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    SPI Couvent de Belgique / Couvent Belge des Soeurs de la Perpétuelle indulgence.

    | Date: [between 2008 and 2014?]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A nun from the Hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome. Coloured line engraving by C. Duflos le père.

    Duflos, Claude, 1665-1727. | Date: 1710-1719 | Reference: 17402i
    • Books

    Across God's frontiers : Catholic sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 / Anne M. Butler.

    Butler, Anne M., 1938- | Date: [2012], ©2012
All works (104)

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