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The good Samaritan tending to a wounded man while a priest and a Levite walk on by. Line engraving by T. Cook, 1809, after W. Hogarth.

Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: the ceremony of immersion. Pencil drawing by R. Cleaver.

Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.

Golden Temple, Amritsar. Coloured transfer lithograph.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: the shrine and sacred well. Wood engraving by H. Lanos.

Serbo-Turkish War: series of sketches including the convalescent hospital, the Chapel at Lazare and prisoners of war. Wood engraving.

Mademoiselle de La Vallière reading from the Bible to a sick paralysed woman, another prays while a dog welcomes the encouraging Saint Anselm. Coloured stipple engraving by L.C. Ruotte, 17--, after J.F. Schall.

Double picture: Durga slaying the buffalo demon, Shri Deri; Shri Dattatreya with a cow, two worshippers and dog. Transfer lithograph.

Tomb of the Virgin, Jerusalem. Chromolithograph by H. Clerget and J. Gaildrau after François Edmond Pâris, 1862.

Euery dayes sacrifice : wherein is comprehended, many comfortable prayers and meditations, very necessary for all Christians : also many comforts for the sicke which are afflicted by the sight of their sinnes, and the terrour of death / written by D. M. Luther, a little before his end ; with most true comforts out of Holy Scripture of the knowledge we shall haue of one another in the world to come, translated by W.S.R.

Charles, [etc. Proclamation to raise money for the relief of the poor afflicted with the plague. 11 August 1625].

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Double picture: Durga slaying the buffalo demon, Shri Deri; Shri Dattatreya with a cow, two worshippers and dog. Transfer lithograph.

Tomb of the Virgin, Jerusalem. Chromolithograph by H. Clerget and J. Gaildrau after François Edmond Pâris, 1862.

The good Samaritan tending to a wounded man while a priest and a Levite walk on by. Line engraving by T. Cook, 1809, after W. Hogarth.

Charles, [etc. Proclamation to raise money for the relief of the poor afflicted with the plague. 11 August 1625].