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Images about Sunday

3 images from works
  • Hospital Sunday: at the entrance to a theatre, the audience are required to surrender their wigs, lipstick, etc. Drawing by Edmund J. Sullivan, 1932.
  • A barber cuts a man's face while shaving him; a second barber cuts a cross-eyed boy's hair; a third lathers the face of another man. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt after T. Lane.
  • Two soldiers contemplate buying a cigar as a Sunday treat and sharing it. Pen and ink drawing by G. Ri.

Works from the collections

8 works

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    Gods judgements upon drunkards, swearers, and sabbath-breakers. In a collection of the most remarkable examples of Gods revealed wrath upon these sins : with their aggravations, as well from scripture, as reason. And a caution to authority, lest the impunity of these evils bring a scourge upon the whole nation. By W. L.

    Samuel Hammond | Date: 1659
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    An Irish family outside their cottage on a Sunday morning prepares to go to church. Engraving by R.C. Bell after W. Brocas.

    William Brocas | Date: [between 1847 and 1851?] | Reference: 3147507i
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    People in Westphalia climbing up a hill on Sunday morning to attend a church service. Engraving by F. Dinger, 1899, after Hugo Becker.

    Ludwig Hugo Becker | Date: 1899 | Reference: 3106244i
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    By the Queen, a proclamation, for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for the preventing and punishing of vice, prophaneness, and immorality.

    England and Wales. Sovereign (1702-1707 : Anne) | Date: 1702
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    Gods judgements upon drunkards, swearers, and sabbath-breakers : in a collection of the most remarkable examples of Gods revealed wrath upon these sins: with their aggravations, as well from scripture, as reason. And a caution to authority, lest the impunity of these evils bring a scourge upon the whole nation.

    Samuel Hammond | Date: 1659
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