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Cabinet - Sources

Sentimental cards
T26: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of Tennes, c. 354-348 BC.
Image for Clone of Clone of T26: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of Tennes, c. 354-348 BC. [Obverse]
Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Jacopo Antonio Marcello Presents the Manuscript of Strabo to Rene d'Anjou (1459)
Image for Jacopo Antonio Marcello presents the manuscript to Rene d'Anjou
'Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus', illustrated by Paul Nash (1932)
Image for Thomas Browne, Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus (London, 1932), binding design and illustrations by Paul Nash (1889–1946)
Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1536-1541)
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Catacomb Saints
Image for St Alexander in Waldsassen, Bavaria
Woman and child
Image for Woman and child 1
Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 5
‘Latin Maiden of Tešanj’
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
Image for Saami cradle
‘Christian Monuments, Tassorić’ / ‘Graveyard at Tassorić’
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Cushion starfish
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Frunze Museum, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
Image for Frunze Museum, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
Image for Clone of The Emerald Table of Hermes Trismegistus, from Khunrath, Amphitheatrum
From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
Image for From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
Image for Imser clock, Vienna
T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
Image for Clone of T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC. [Obverse]
Drawing of a Croatian woman
Image for PRM 1941.8.179
Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1531)
Image for Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1531)
T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3.
Image for T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3. [Obverse]
From Italy to Germany, 1390: the precondition of the print revolution
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Depiction of Mecca by Louis-Nicolas de Lespinasse, 1787
Image for Depiction of Mecca by Louis-Nicolas de Lespinasse, 1787
Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 939 (section 5, verso)