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Concept

Tears

Images

  • A woman with AIDS weeping representing an advertisement for the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin). Coloured lithograph.
  • Democritus laughing and Heraclitus weeping, with a globe between them. Etching by R. Gaywood after J. van Vliet after Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • Democritus laughing and Heraclitus weeping, with a globe between them. Etching by R. Gaywood after J. van Vliet after Rembrandt van Rijn.
All images (4)

Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    A woman crying with a barred window behind her on a black ground

    Bishop, Mary (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990 | Date: 29 September 1959 | Reference: 2870116i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    A face in red and purple with red teardrops

    Bishop, Mary (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990 | Date: December 1965 | Reference: 2863704i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Abnormal blushing, flushing and sweating 1905

    | Date: 1897-1949 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.118/1
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
    • Books

    Crying : the natural and cultural history of tears / Tom Lutz.

    Lutz, Tom. | Date: [1999], ©1999
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A woman with AIDS weeping representing an advertisement for the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 678406i
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