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A new-born child being given its first bath. Engraving, 1800.
Date: 1 June 1800Reference: 17391i- Pictures
Apollo, with three allegorical figures, holds a portrait medallion of Louis XVI. Engraving by J.B. Tillard after E. de Lavallée Poussin.
Etienne ValléeReference: 21637i
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The birth of Cupid from Venus, Mercury flies above them and nymphs aid them. Line engraving by W. Cooke, 1807, after E. Le Sueur.
Eustache Le SueurDate: 1807Reference: 17254i
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A tooth-drawer performing to a crowd accompanied by a howling patient, a monkey and a man dressed in Roman costume. Coloured lithograph by Lavrate(?).
Reference: 16736i- Pictures
Cleopatra's doctor taking her pulse and telling her off for drinking pearls. Wood engraving by G. Morrow, 1912.
George MorrowDate: 1912Reference: 15390i
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Bacchus being bathed by nymphs after being born from Jupiter's knee, his mother Semele is consumed by flames. Engraving by C. Patas after A. Borel after Rinaldo Mantovano.
Q215305Reference: 17251i- Books
The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands, from the earliest periods to the sixth century; to which is added, that of the Gothic nations on the western coasts of the Baltic, the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes / By Samuel Rush Meyrick ... and Charles Hamilton Smith, Esq.
Samuel Rush MeyrickDate: 1815