Works of art formed primarily by the direct application of pigments suspended in oil, water, egg yolk, molten wax, or other liquid, arranged in masses of color, onto a generally two-dimensional surface. (Getty ATT)
    

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The painted faces of two men, one above the other, by Bruno; with the message that being HIV positive does not mean the end; an advertisement by Mann-O-Meter, the information and telephone service for gay men. Colour lithograph.

Two paintings by Kapp.

No. 1 of a series of modern flower paintings by Edmond X. Kapp : Red Anemones (1955) : contemporary treatment.

Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.

A female figure at an easel is helped by another with a compass; representing perspective and geometry in art. Coloured stipple engraving, 1786.

Waller, Wathen Ernest, and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy

An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop, with his wig on fire, angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near the wounded baby Tristram Shandy. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.

Konst på sjukhus - till glädje för alla / Birgitta Rapp.

Basler Totentanz / Text, Franz Egger.

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Waller, Wathen Ernest, and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy

An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop, with his wig on fire, angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near the wounded baby Tristram Shandy. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.

Konst på sjukhus - till glädje för alla / Birgitta Rapp.

Basler Totentanz / Text, Franz Egger.

A female figure at an easel is helped by another with a compass; representing perspective and geometry in art. Coloured stipple engraving, 1786.