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Falls (Accidents)

Images

  • A woman who has fallen down a well being rescued by a man praying to Sansovino's Virgin and Child. Watercolour.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Doctor Slop, having fallen off his horse, is greeted by Obadiah. Etching after L. Sterne.
  • King Ahaziah lies sick after having fallen through an upper window: Elijah foretells his death. Drawing by H.P. Bone.
  • A woman falling headfirst through an open cellar-door outside a pharmacy, and a man expressing his concern. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank after G.M. Woodward, 1798.
  • A woman who has fallen down a well being rescued by a man praying to Sansovino's Virgin and Child. Watercolour.
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Catalogue

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    The story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche tells her sisters the identity of her husband: they confidently leap off the mountain, but the wind does not save them and they are dashed to pieces on the rocks. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

    Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592. | Date: [between 1500 and 1599] | Reference: 2944541i
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    A woman descending the stairs of a steep staircase in the gloom falls into the arms of a man who is ascending. Coloured lithograph, 1844.

    | Date: [1844] | Reference: 35806i
    Part of: Musée caricatural
    • Books

    Staying steady : keep active and reduce your risk of falling / Age UK.

    | Date: 2014
    • Books

    We're talking about your generation : physiotherapy works : live long, live well / Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

    | Date: 2015
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    Fracture of the tibia as the result of a fall. Radiograph, 1917.

    | Date: [1917] | Reference: 2092796i
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