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Knights and knighthood

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Civilization, Medieval
Nobility

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Images from the collections

Images about Knights and knighthood

14 images from works
  • A man with a scimitar, and a bleeding heart; representing the blood donation service run in Cuba by the Comité de Defensa de la Revolución. Colour silk screen print by S. Goire Castilla, 1987.
  • A stippled impression of a woman with long hair decorated with flowers wearing an off-the- shoulder gown and pearls sitting between the pink line drawn legs of a woman; with the statement 'Vienna is the other way'; an advertisement for a gay event from 11 June to 7 July [199-] in Vienna [?] organised by sieben zu eins Kulturkontor. Colour lithograph.
  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • A knight in armour with the silhouette of his sword and a fluorescent pink condom below representing the need for sexual protection against AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
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Works from the collections

15 works

    • Ephemera

    Drug advertising ephemera. Box 61.

    • Pictures

    An inn-keeper, mistaken by Don Quixote for a knight, humours the Don by dubbing him a knight errant. Line engraving by J. Mynde, 1725, after C.A. Coypel.

    Coypel, Charles-Antoine, 1694-1752. | Date: [1725?] | Reference: 3006306i
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    A man with a scimitar, and a bleeding heart; representing the blood donation service run in Cuba by the Comité de Defensa de la Revolución. Colour silk screen print by S. Goire Castilla, 1987.

    Goire Castilla, Suitberto, 1951- | Date: [1987?] | Reference: 689321i
    • Books

    Knights Bachelor 1947 : supplement.

    | Date: [1948?]
    • Books

    Knights Bachelor, 1939-1946 : a list of the existing recipients of the honour of knighthood, together with a short account of the origin, objects, and work of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor / by Gerald W. Wollaston.

    Wollaston, Gerald Woods, Sir, 1874-1957. | Date: [1948]
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Related topics

United Kingdom
Genealogy and Heraldry
Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Safe Sex
AIDS (Disease) - Prevention
Condoms

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