Specific area where direct light from a light source cannot reach due to obstruction by a specific object or person

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Christ stands among sick people ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching after Rembrandt, 1649.

Christ stands among sick people and Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching by J.P. Le Bas, 1776, after Rembrandt, 1649.

Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb. Etching by G.B. Castiglione.

The flight into Egypt in the night, illuminated by the moon and the milky way. Engraving by H. Goudt, 1613, after A. Elsheimer, 1609.

Christ among sick people and the Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Wood engraving by H. Linton after T. Beech (?) after Rembrandt, 1649.

A man frightened by his own shadow. Wood engraving, 18--.

The back of a man sitting by a fire to light his pipe. Etching, 1849, after C. Jacque.

Christ among sick people and Pharisees.

Diagrams of shadows, and renderings of architectural elements with shadows. Lithograph by Mackay & Kirkwood, 1860.

The sick and lame bend before the apostle Peter, hoping for cure. Coloured lithograph, 1863, after Masaccio.

Christ, praying in the light, raises Lazarus from his tomb. Etching after J. Lievens, 1631.

Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb. Etching by S. Castiglione, 1645.

A woman with a venereal disease walks in sunshine past a sequence of markers of the passing months, referring to the danger of delayed treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph after M. Bennett.

An alchemist reading in a shadowy laboratory. Lithograph by C.F. Nantueil-Leboeuf after L-G-E. Isabey.

Causes of the English disease (rickets): (left) unsuitable food and (right) poor housing. Colour lithograph, 1922.

The exhaustive treatise on shadows / by Abu al-Rayḥān Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī ; translation & commentary by E.S. Kennedy.

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Shades and shadows

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Images about Shades and shadows

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A woman with a venereal disease walks in sunshine past a sequence of markers of the passing months, referring to the danger of delayed treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph after M. Bennett.

The sick and lame bend before the apostle Peter, hoping for cure. Coloured lithograph, 1863, after Masaccio.

An alchemist reading in a shadowy laboratory. Lithograph by C.F. Nantueil-Leboeuf after L-G-E. Isabey.

Causes of the English disease (rickets): (left) unsuitable food and (right) poor housing. Colour lithograph, 1922.

The exhaustive treatise on shadows / by Abu al-Rayḥān Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī ; translation & commentary by E.S. Kennedy.

Shades and shadows

Images from the collections

Images about Shades and shadows

Works from the collections

A woman with a venereal disease walks in sunshine past a sequence of markers of the passing months, referring to the danger of delayed treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph after M. Bennett.

The sick and lame bend before the apostle Peter, hoping for cure. Coloured lithograph, 1863, after Masaccio.

An alchemist reading in a shadowy laboratory. Lithograph by C.F. Nantueil-Leboeuf after L-G-E. Isabey.

Causes of the English disease (rickets): (left) unsuitable food and (right) poor housing. Colour lithograph, 1922.

The exhaustive treatise on shadows / by Abu al-Rayḥān Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī ; translation & commentary by E.S. Kennedy.

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