New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

Wellcome Collection

16 works

Featured

Filters

Works per page

Color

Shape

Clear all

Two saints with halos stand in a hilly landscape, one holding a book and palm frond, the other in a red fur-trimmed cloak.

Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian in a landscape. Oil painting attributed to A. Pérez de Pineda

Andrés Pérez de Pineda

Coloured aquatint of a Hindu temple interior with stone columns, timber ceiling and small figures on the floor.

Interior of a Hindu temple, Deo, Bihar. Coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell, 1800

Ink and wash drawing of women in headscarves carrying an icon in a village procession past thatched cottages, watched by a ch

A religious cholera procession in rural Russia. Pen drawing by I.A. Wladimiroff

Ivan Alexéiévitch? Wladimiroff

Etching of a robed preacher above a crowd on open ground before city buildings, with engraved verse captions below.

The Moorfields congregation with George Whitefield, representing religious mania. Etching by G. Bickham

Etching of a group rehearsing music indoors, with a violinist, a boy reading sheet music, and a bearded man conducting.

A musical rehearsal for a Jewish religious service (?). Etching by E. Moyse, 1865

Etching of a rocky wooded landscape with a kneeling saint, a lion, and a wooden cross beside a cliff.

Saint Jerome in a landscape. Etching by H. van Swanevelt

Herman van Swanevelt

Dark mezzotint of a crowd on a rocky shore below cliffs and clouds, with a distant castle over a lake.

Christ feeds the five thousand in a sublime landscape. Mezzotint with engraving by J. Martin, 1835

Etching of a sleeping man on rocks beneath a ladder of angels, with windblown trees and a rugged landscape.

Jacob finds rest in a rugged landscape and dreams of a ladder of angels. Etching by J. Goupy after S. Rosa

Engraved winter landscape with bare trees, a village, and an angel above a sleeping figure and the Holy Family in a shelter.

The month January and the sign of Aquarius, represented by a winter landscape, the dream of Saint Joseph, and the Fli…

Watercolour of a stepped stone staircase leading to a tiered temple with golden finial, with a tree and small figures.

Possibly the temple at Nu Tooth, Sri Lanka. Watercolour drawing by C.H.S.B.

Etching of a rocky wooded landscape with a waterfall, with a haloed woman reclining at lower right beneath trees.

Saint Mary Magdalen. Etching after G.F. Grimaldi

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?

Engraving of a dense forest with gnarled trees, reeds at a marshy pool, and a small seated figure near the center.

Saint John the Baptist in the wilderness. Engraving by J. van Londerseel after G. de Hondecoeter

Gillis Claesz. de Hondecoeter

Hand-coloured etching of conical thatched pagodas with spires among palm and broad trees, two figures on a path.

Buddhist pagodas at Deoghar, Bihar. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1787

Etching of a bearded man seated by a window reading a sheet, with a crucifixion triptych and skull on a table.

Abraham Francen, apothecary, seated by a window, gazing at a print or drawing. Etching by or after Rembrandt

Rembrandt van Rijn

Lithograph of four robed men at a table with open books and an hourglass, translating the Bible.

Four Protestant reformers translating the Bible. Lithograph by L. Noel after P.A. Labouchère, 1847

Pierre-Antoine Labouchère

Engraved scene of Copernicus gesturing at a celestial diagram, surrounded by astronomers and telescopes in a Gothic hall.

Nicolas Copernicus among other astronomers of the world. Process print after a wood engraving by J. Styfi and J. Hole…

Michał Elwiro Andriolli