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Church of St. Ignatius, Jesuit Pharmacy Hospital College, Rome: with a Benedictine convent and St. Mauro's monument. Line engraving after O. Grassi.

Val-de-Grâce, Paris: nuns walking in the gardens of the convent. Coloured line engraving.

Boer War: a group of nuns outside the military hospital at Mafeking, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Emerson Neilly.

Boer War: nuns and a policeman taking down the Red Cross flag from the bomb damaged convent at Mafeking, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after S. Robinson.

Val-de-Grâce, Paris. Lithograph by Delpech after Arnout.

Convent of Great St. Bernard, Switzerland/Italy. Tinted lithograph, 1837.

Convent of the Great St. Bernard, Switzerland/Italy border. Lithograph.

Messina Port, Messina, Sicily, Italy: with a numbered key. Tinted etching.

Convent of Great St. Bernard, Switzerland/Italy: rescue dogs gathering outside around wounded travellers. Wood engraving.

Convent of Great St. Bernard, Switzerland/Italy: a rescue dog finding a wounded traveller. Coloured lithograph by A. Cuvillier.

Regla del glorioso doctor de la iglesia N.G.P.S. Agustin : que han de guardar las religiosas de los conventos de Santa Catarina de Sena y Santa Indes de Monte Policiano, de la orden de N.P. Santo Domingo, establecidos en esta ciudad de la Puebla de los Angeles con las ordenanzas y constituciones ... / [compilado] por ... D. Juan de Palafox y Mendoza.

Woman under monasticism : chapters on saint-lore and convent life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 / by Lina Eckenstein.

A nun with two children in a convent pharmacy, surrounded attributes of the trade. Lithograph by André after E. Pingret.

Medieval English nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 / by Eileen Power.

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Woman under monasticism : chapters on saint-lore and convent life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 / by Lina Eckenstein.

Convent of Great St. Bernard, Switzerland/Italy: rescue dogs gathering outside around wounded travellers. Wood engraving.

A nun with two children in a convent pharmacy, surrounded attributes of the trade. Lithograph by André after E. Pingret.

Medieval English nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 / by Eileen Power.