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Cabinet - Sources

John Evelyn's (1620-1706) plate
Image for Plate of ‘SILIQUOSÆ TETRAPETALÆ BICAPSULARES’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 3, Tab. 9) sponsored by John Evelyn (1620-1706).
Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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Printed model to printed image: Blechnum
Image for Printed illustration struck from a copper plate engraved by Frederick Hendrick van Hove and published in Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 14, Tab. 2)
Vannuccio Biringuccio, Pirotechnia (1540)
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William Hogarth - The Analysis of Beauty (1753) Plate 1
Polish man
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Emblem 'Am I not a Man and a Brother'?
Sonnets by Dante in a Lyric Miscellany (MS Can. Ital. 65)
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Colantonio, St Jerome in his Study (1444)
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Anatomy: a manual art, 1493
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A supra-national entity
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Poster "Educate the children to work"
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‘Peoples of the USSR’ – Postage Stamp Collection (Central Asia)
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T12: Silver stater struck at Mallos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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Interior of St Anne's Lutheran Church, Augsburg
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Javelin head/arrowhead from Deve Hüyük
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The right man for the job
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14. Oil paint
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Languages
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Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
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Javelin-head from Deve Hüyük
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Necklace with acorn pendants from the Lydian Treasure
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Music: printing with movable type, 1501
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