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Ink Drawings

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Images from the collections

Images of Ink Drawings

1,257 images from works
  • A man cuts his finger with a knife; representing the sense of touch. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.
  • A tick (Ixodes reduvius). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Professors at the Medical Faculty, University of Louvain: seven caricatures. Drawing (?) by G. Parsy, ca. 1900 (?).
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a steeply descending road, with telegraph poles on the left, a wall and fields on the right, huge mountainous waves in the distance. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 1978.
  • Plague in Cape Town: convicts cleansing and disinfecting infected buildings. Drawing by H. Johnson, 1891.
  • Dissection of the trunk: side view, showing the bones and muscles, with small pencil sketches of a nude in various poses. Ink and watercolour with laminated flaps, 18--.
  • Singapore: a police officer clearing two race-goers from the racecourse. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.
  • Nurses being lectured on bandaging using a mannequin on a hospital ward. Drawing by J. Belon.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.

Works from the collections

1,115 works

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    Surgical instruments. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.

    | Date: 1860-1910 | Reference: 568370i
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    A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, his wife observes the scene. Pen drawing after D. Teniers, the younger.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Reference: 22594i
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    A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark, S. Spirito, Sassia hospital Rome, c. 1640. Coloured drawing by C. Rossi, 1930.

    Rossi, Carlo, active 1930. | Date: 1930 | Reference: 16021i
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    A lame man being doused in water from a holy spring to procure a miraculous cure, in Sarepta (?), Russia. Pen and ink drawing, 1903.

    | Date: 1903 | Reference: 22761i
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    An iris; flowers and birds; two ladies, one with a baby. Ink drawings.

    | Reference: 21836i

Related topics

Human anatomy
Culicidae
Plants
Pathology, Surgical
Diptera
Hospitals
Botany
Costume
Larva
Flowers

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