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Birdcages

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  • Release the arthritic patient : with Brufen (ibuprofen).
  • Release the arthritic patient : with Brufen (ibuprofen).
  • A fashionable gentleman sits with his arm round a lady by a tavern table as a girl chalks up drinks on a slate. Lithograph after D. Teniers (?).
  • Music being played to a lady, while above an angel blows a trumpet into Jerome's ear; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • The evolution of a monkey into a boy and a balloon into a cage for a parrot; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
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    Music being played to a lady, while above an angel blows a trumpet into Jerome's ear; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.

    Horst, Nikolaus van der, 1598-1646. | Date: 1630 | Reference: 27062i
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    The evolution of a monkey into a boy and a balloon into a cage for a parrot; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.

    Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867. | Date: 1863 | Reference: 12104i
    Part of: The origin of species, dedicated by natural selection to Dr. Charles Darwin
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    Release the arthritic patient : with Brufen (ibuprofen).

    | Date: 1968
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    A fashionable gentleman sits with his arm round a lady by a tavern table as a girl chalks up drinks on a slate. Lithograph after D. Teniers (?).

    | Reference: 26850i
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    Two women with bird cages sitting in a garden; representing virginity and its loss. Colour process print by Charaire after De Brea after N. Lavreince.

    Lafrensen, Niklas, 1737-1807. | Reference: 33599i
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