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Donkeys

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  • A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1821.
  • The holy family prepare to flee for Egypt. Engraving by F. Poilly after G. Reni.
  • The Virgin Mary prays to the infant Jesus, who is being carried by four kneeling angels; they all stand in a circle around the sun drawn on the ground. Aquatint with etching by C.M. Metz after D. Ghirlandaio.
  • The Virgin Mary and the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes; Joseph sits nearby. Etching by F. de Grado.
  • The birth of Christ; the Virgin kneels before the manger. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after P.P. Rubens.
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    An itinerant medicine vendor and his assistants being pelted off stage with stones from an angry audience. Engraving by C.F. Stoelzel, 1798, after J. Schenau.

    Schenau, Johann Eleazar, 1737-1806. | Date: 1798 | Reference: 20882i
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    The good Samaritan seeing to a man's wounds while a priest and Levite walk into the distance. Etching by W. Unger after F.G. Bassano the younger.

    Bassano, Francesco da Ponte, 1549-1592. | Reference: 17897i
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    The Virgin Mary, pregnant with James, and Joseph voyage back from Egypt with the child Jesus. Engraving after P.P. Rubens.

    Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640. | Date: [between 1720 and 1729?] | Reference: 2473914i
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    Group cooking on a campfire with caravan and donkey in background

    Beatty, Elizabeth, active approximately 1968 | Date: 3 January 1968 | Reference: 2846790i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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    Three donkeys resting by a cart. Lithograph with gouache by A. Ducote after T.S. Cooper.

    Cooper, Thomas Sidney, 1803-1902. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 40143i
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