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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.
Lavallée-Poussin, Etienne de, approximately 1733-1793.Reference: 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.
Le Sueur, Eustache, 1616-1655.Date: 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.
Morrow, George, 1869-1955.Date: 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.
Romano, Giulio, 1499-1546.Reference: 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.
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, 1783-1848.Date: 1815