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Images about Monks

79 images from works
  • The body of Saint Bruno is laid out in state and surrounded by mourning Carthusian monks. Etching with engraving after E. Le Sueur.
  • A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
  • St. John of God carrying a sick patient from a hospital ward. Line engraving by G. Petrini.
  • A brick house with three gables, Well Street, Hackney, London, once used as a Priory. Engraving.
  • "Come and taste Burgess' "MM" : it is the nicest pickle I know of / John Burgess & Son.
  • Saint Faith, holding a gridiron, being addressed in prayer by a monk; the Crucifixion below. Etching after J. Schnebbelie, 1821.
  • A bearded elderly man, carrying a prayer wheel and a rosary, in a studio setting.
  • An old monk in his habit drinks from a large glass and waves with his left hand. Engraving.
  • A bishop wearing spectacles and a monk reading a book. Reproduction of a painting after Pisanello.
  • A dying man in bed being read the last rites. Lithograph by F. Piloty after L. Bramer.
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Works from the collections

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    A man in a monk's habit with a black bird to the right and a grey tree behind

    Bishop, Mary (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990 | Date: 20 January 1958 | Reference: 2907969i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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    The ecstasy of Andrea Corsini. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Reni, c. 1635-40.

    Reni, Guido, 1575-1642. | Reference: 25577i
    Part of: La Pinacoteca della Pontificia Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna
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    The body of Saint Bruno is laid out in state and surrounded by mourning Carthusian monks. Etching with engraving after E. Le Sueur.

    Le Sueur, Eustache, 1616-1655. | Reference: 44180i
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    Monks singing the Liturgy of the Hours; one monk doing penance. Etching by J.J. de Boissieu, 1795.

    Boissieu, Jean-Jacques de, 1736-1810. | Date: 1795 | Reference: 29908i
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    Two St. Bernard dogs with an avalanche victim, one tries to revive him while the other alerts the rescue party. Line engraving by J. Landseer, 1831, after E. Landseer.

    Landseer, Edwin, Sir, 1802-1873. | Date: 3 June 1831 | Reference: 17541i
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Related topics

Christianity
Death
Hospitals
Sick
Christian saints
Beneficence
Monasticism and religious orders
Patients
Angels
Monasteries

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