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Images about Business

9 images from works
  • The Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Paris: gateway and interior. Wood engraving by C.W. Sheeres after E. Shirond.
  • An Indian man selling alcohol to a couple. Gouache drawing.
  • Neptune presiding over a businessman making money through investment and a man drinking beer; representing the phlegmatic temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler.
  • Neptune presiding over a businessman making money through investment and a man drinking beer; representing the phlegmatic temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler.
  • An Indian man selling alcohol to a couple. Gouache drawing.
  • Thomas Wakley shown as Orpheus with his lyre, opposing the Literary Copyright Act of 1842 on the grounds that he could write poetry according to a recipe; and British tradesmen offering shoddy coats for sale. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • A Moodaly and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • The interior of a bustling Venetian wine-shop. Process print after a pen drawing with sepia wash by P. Longhi.
  • A Jain accountant with his wife. Gouache drawing.

Works from the collections

25 works

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    The profile of a businessman, according to Lavater. Drawing, c. 1793.

    | Date: c. 1793 | Reference: 31520i
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    The Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Paris: gateway and interior. Wood engraving by C.W. Sheeres after E. Shirond.

    Shirond, E. | Date: 1857 | Reference: 21519i
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    Knowledge transfer : towards a strategic framework / Phillip Ternouth.

    Ternouth, Phillip. | Date: 2002
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    A Jain accountant with his wife. Gouache drawing.

    | Reference: 28980i
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    Is anybody listening? : how and why U.S. business fumbles when it talks with human beings / by William H. Whyte Jr., and the editors of Fortune.

    Whyte, William H. (William Hollingsworth) | Date: 1952
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