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Our extensive collection of paintings explores human health all over the world, depicting illness, anatomy, traditions and medical practices.

Images from the collections

Images of Paintings

5,931 images from works
  • A Chinese sage, accompanied by his young assistant, blesses a frog. Painting by a Chinese artist.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • Marsh mallow plant (Althaea officinalis): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1906.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • An Indian woman holding a bird while another looks on. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers being escorted off the hospital train at Durban from Ladysmith. Watercolour by F. Dadd, 1899.
  • A man. Oil painting.
  • Black Greek drinking cups; left, shallow cup with horizontal handles; middle, tall cup with horizontal handles (kotyle); right, cup with vertical handles. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • Hindu deities: Shiva, Chhinnamasta, Kamadeva and Rati. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Mount Vesuvius in eruption at night, showing the Bay of Naples in the foreground with a sailing boat, and spectators on the opposite shore. Gouache, 1828.
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Images about Paintings

122 images from works
  • 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.
  • With the compliments of C.L. Bencard Ltd : two paintings by Kapp.
  • 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.
  • No. 3 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.
  • Eating out. No. 6, The luncheon of the boating party.
  • No. 6 of a series of modern flower paintings by Edmond X. Kapp : The Baccara Rose (1955) : contemporary treatment.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A dentist extracting a tooth from a fashionable female patient who is surrounded by young men. Coloured etching, 1806.
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Japan
Botany - Japan
India
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Painting, Kalighat
England