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Cabinet - Sources

Night Encounters
Children in uniform
Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
Image for 1998.267.269.10
Women's First (and only) Eight, 1982
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
Image for Hereford Mappa Mundi
JH2: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
Image for JH2: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC. [Obverse]
Clone of Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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Perspective Applied: Masaccio, Trinità (c.1426-1428)
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Drawing of the interior of a church
Image for Interior of a disused church at Sodankylä 1
Canonizing the five orders: Sebastiano Serlio, 1537/1611
Image for The Five Orders: Sebastiano Serlio in English (1611)
Sentimental cards
Ptolemy World Map, 1482
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Sewing machine
Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
Image for 1998.267.269.8
The Tradescant family tomb
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Chinese books before paper
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Francis Bacon at 17 years of age, 1578
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Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
Image for Print entitled ‘Hortus Botanicus The Physick Garden in Oxon’ from David Loggan (1675) Oxonia illustrata, sive Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecae Bodleianae, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani; nec non urbis
Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
Image for Plate of ‘TRICAPSULARES HEXAPETALÆ radice squamosá præditæ’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 4, Tab. 21) sponsored by Thomas Millington (1628-1703).
The Slave Trade
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Laocoon and his Sons
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", May 5 1915
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Rubens, Apotheosis of James I (1634)
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