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Images about Nature

33 images from works
  • A woman representing Nature gives a baby to a mother; representing man's vulnerable and naked birth. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563.
  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • A woman representing Nature gives a baby to a mother; representing man's vulnerable and naked birth. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563.
  • A free enquiry into the vulgarly receivʼd notion of nature; made in an essay, addressʼd to a friend / By R.B., fellow of the Royal society.
  • Moscow: people swimming and sunbathing at Cerebrensky public baths. Etching by M.G. Eichler, 1799, after G. de la Barthe, 1796.
  • A palatial building representing the Academia Caesareo-Leopoldina Naturae Curiosorum, surmounted by a coat of arms; two seated figures in the foreground. Engraving by J.G. Pintz, 17--.
  • A free enquiry into the vulgarly receivʼd notion of nature; made in an essay, addressʼd to a friend / By R.B., fellow of the Royal society.
  • In a rural garden, two boys draw the figure of Nature represented as a woman with six breasts feeding two infants; around, examples of nature and education. Engraving by E.J.N. de Ghendt after C.P. Marillier, ca. 1788/1793.
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  • A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of the base, 'natural' man. Etching, 1771, after J. Bakewell.
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Works from the collections

202 works

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    The moorlands of England and Wales : an environmental history 8000 BC to AD 2000 / I.G. Simmons.

    Simmons, I. G. (Ian Gordon), 1937- | Date: [2003], ©2003
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    Den. 3

    Sop | Date: December 2021
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    Novalis im medizinhistorischen Kontext / Dietrich von Engelhardt.

    Engelhardt, Dietrich von. | Date: 1997
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    Ciencia y filosofía de la naturaleza en Alemania alrededor de 1800 : principios, dimensiones y perspectivas / Dietrich von Engelhardt.

    Engelhardt, Dietrich von. | Date: 1996
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    Divine wisdom, divine nature : the message of the Rosicrucian Manifestoes in the visual language of the seventeenth century / edited by José Bouman and Cis van Heertum.

    | Date: 2014
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