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A midwife gives the Virgin Mary her first bath, Joachim looks and exclaims to the heavens where angels are celebrating her birth. Engraving by P.S. Bartoli after F. Albani.

Queen Catherine of Aragon, head and shoulders, in a medallion; below, a coat of arms. Engraving by R. White after H. Holbein the Younger, ca. 1700.

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A young woman of Vienna who died of cholera, depicted when healthy and four hours before death. Coloured stipple engraving.

Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.

The Milroy lectures on epidemic diseases in England : the evidence of variability and of persistency of type delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, March 1st, 6th, and 8th, 1906 / ...

‘Genetic Automata’ is an ongoing body of video works by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, video games and DNA ancestry.

Laura Grace Simpkins attempts to untangle some uncomfortable truths about the social and environmental costs of making her medication.

Three children with rickets; anon., Friends' Relief Mission, Vienna XII, n.d.

Inspired by 17th-century murals from a private meditation chamber for Tibet’s Dalai Lamas in the Lukhang Temple in Llasa, this exhibition featured more than 120 objects – scroll paintings, statues, ...