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Iceland

Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Iceland

15 images from works
  • A jet of steam on a sulphur mountain, Iceland. Coloured aquatint by J. Clark, 1811, after Sir George Mackenzie.
  • A hot spring in Iceland; people in the foreground. Coloured aquatint by F. Chesham, December 1796.
  • A geyser erupting, Iceland. Engraving by E. Mitchell, 1811, after Sir George Mackenzie.
  • A personfied yellow sun against a red and white background with a kissing couple representing a safe sex and anti-AIDS advertisment for the LandÆKNISEMBÆTTID. Colour lithograph, ca. 1993.
  • A cauldron of boiling mud on a sulphur mountain, Iceland. Coloured aquatint by J. Clark, 1811, after Sir George Mackenzie.
  • Numerous named photographs of men and women each holding different brands of condoms representing a safe sex and anti-AIDS advertisment for the LandÆKNISEMBÆTTID. Colour lithograph, ca. 1987.
  • Iceland: a geyser or hot spring erupting. Watercolour.
  • A geyser erupting, Iceland. Engraving by E. Mitchell, 1811, after Sir George Mackenzie.
  • Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland. Coloured aquatint by J. Clark, 1811, after H. Holland.
  • Iceland: the mound and pipe from which a geyser issues, as shown immediately after an eruption. Coloured aquatint by F. Chesham, 1798.

Works from the collections

65 works

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    Íslenzkir Annálar, sive annales Islandici, ab anno Christi 803 ad annum 1430 / Ex Legati Arnæ-Magnæani et Magnæ bibliothecæ regiæ hafniensis melioris notæ codicibus membranaceis et chartaceis, cum interpretatione latina, variis lectionibus, prolegomenis, nec non indice personarum, locorum & rerum. [In Icelandic and Latin].

    | Date: 1847
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    Food in Iceland 874-1550 / by Baldur Johnsen.

    Baldur Johnsen, 1910- | Date: 1968
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    Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine : présentée et soutenue le 28 août 1839, / par Virgile-Ennemond Savigny, de Rochefort ... I. Du traitement des affections tuberculeuses en général. ... [etc].

    Savigny, Virgile-Ennemond. | Date: 1839
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    Världens nordligaste läkare : medicinalväsendets första insteg i Nordskandinavien 1750-1810 = The northernmost doctors in the world the beginnings of public medical care in Northern Scandinavia 1750-1810 / Henrik Sandblad.

    Sandblad, Henrik, 1912- | Date: 1979
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    Internal markets in the making : health systems in Canada, Iceland and the United Kingdom.

    | Date: [1995], ©1995

Related topics

Natural History
Geysers
Norway
Measles

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