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The maze of trees, emotional cancer journey, artwork

The sun shining amid white clouds by day, advertising Veramon analgesic medicine, and the moon shining amid black clouds by night, advertising Medinal hypnotic medicine. Drawing by Leonhard Fries for Schering Ltd.

Pen-drawings of alchemical symbolic subjects, 1702

Singapore: sunset over the harbour. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.

A 'Urotropina' tablet as the sun shining over mountains, advertising Schering's Urotropina tablets. Lithograph after Leonhard Fries.

Joseph tells his unsympathetic family about his two prophetic dreams. Line engraving by G. de Jode.

A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.

Apollo riding the chariot of the Sun across the heavens. Engraving by J. Sadeler after M. de Vos.

Singapore: view towards Singapore from the beach at Tanjong Katong at sunset. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.

World War One: a young soldier lies dying in a woman's arms on a deserted battlefield. Colour halftone, c. 1915, after D. Tennant.

Astronomy: Apollo as the Sun god with his bow and arrow, an angel above, looking heavenward. Engraving by N. Dorigny, 1695, after Raphael, 1516.

The head of a person with a sad facial expression under a wave shape with crescent moon and round sun shapes above

The sun and moon above a crucifix with angels either side, between blocks of green and dark blue

A woman wearing a red dress kneeling next to a tree with a large red sun in the background

A causeway across a bay with the sun on the horizon

The sun kings : the unexpected tragedy of Richard Carrington and the tale of how modern astronomy began / Stuart Clark.

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Sun

Images from the collections

Images referencing Sun

Works from the collections

The head of a person with a sad facial expression under a wave shape with crescent moon and round sun shapes above

The sun and moon above a crucifix with angels either side, between blocks of green and dark blue

A woman wearing a red dress kneeling next to a tree with a large red sun in the background

A causeway across a bay with the sun on the horizon

The sun kings : the unexpected tragedy of Richard Carrington and the tale of how modern astronomy began / Stuart Clark.

Sun

Images from the collections

Images referencing Sun

Works from the collections

The head of a person with a sad facial expression under a wave shape with crescent moon and round sun shapes above

The sun and moon above a crucifix with angels either side, between blocks of green and dark blue

A woman wearing a red dress kneeling next to a tree with a large red sun in the background

A causeway across a bay with the sun on the horizon

The sun kings : the unexpected tragedy of Richard Carrington and the tale of how modern astronomy began / Stuart Clark.

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