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Concept

Visions

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  • A traveller being entranced by a witch disguised as a beautiful woman in the Alps. Engraving by T. Stocks after F. Meadows.
  • Predella with three scenes of Saint Roch, and figures of Saint Peter, Christ as Salvator Mundi, Saint Laurence and Saint Paul. Oil painting by a French (?) painter.
  • Bacchus with attendant satyrs sits drinking by a cave as Venus appears to him and offers him a cup of love. Engraving by J. Audran after A. Coypel, 1704.
  • World War One: a German soldier crouches in fear between two saintly mediaeval sculptures; behind Notre Dame is burning. Halftone after a pen drawing by L. Raemaekers.
  • Three old hags surround a basket of new-born babies with bats in the distance. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
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Catalogue

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    Dreams, visions, & drugs : a search for other realities / by Daniel Cohen.

    Cohen, Daniel, 1936-2018 | Date: 1977
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    World War One: a German soldier crouches in fear between two saintly mediaeval sculptures; behind Notre Dame is burning. Halftone after a pen drawing by L. Raemaekers.

    Raemaekers, Louis, 1869-1956. | Reference: 24579i
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    A treatise of dreams & visions : wherein the causes natures and uses of nocturnal representations, and the communications both of good and evil angels, as also departed souls, to mankinde, are theosophically unfolded; that is, according to the word of God, and the harmony of created beeings [sic] ... To which is added, a discourse of the causes, natures and cure of phrensie, madness or distraction / By Philotheos Physiologus [pseud].

    Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703. | Date: [1689]
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    The night side of nature, or, Ghosts and ghost seers / by Catherine Crowe.

    Crowe, Catherine, 1790-1876. | Date: 1848
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    A traveller being entranced by a witch disguised as a beautiful woman in the Alps. Engraving by T. Stocks after F. Meadows.

    Meadows, F. | Reference: 38158i
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