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  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • Relief: offering to Archinos to Amphiaraos
  • An episode in Juvenal's satire XII: in thanks for the escape of their mutual friend Catullus from a shipwreck, Juvenal shows to Corvinus a votive painting depicting Catullus's survival, while putti prepare to sacrifice animals as thank-offerings to the gods. Etching by W. Hollar after R. Streater.
  • Belgium: pilgrims praying at a shrine of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Engraving, 191-.
  • An altar, surmounted by a statue of the Virgin surrounded by votive offerings; in the foreground, sick or troubled people praying. Woodcut, 16--.
  • Votive offering: foot.
  • Saint Antony of Padua. Line engraving by S. Sondermayr.
  • The Castalian spring at Delphi; the cavities in the rock are for votive offerings. Etching by F.R. Hay, 1813, after E.D. Clarke.
  • Roman ex-voto offering (?obstetrical) found in Suffolk.
  • Votive offerings: 5 terra cotta model of female breast
  • Votive offering: psoriasis (cast).
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • Votive offerings showing viscera. terracotta. One in the form of a torso, another a medallion. Graeco-Roman.
  • Belgium: people kneeling before Saint Leonard of Noblac. Engraving, 191-.
  • Saint Antony Abbot. Woodcut.
  • Saint Antony Abbot. Woodcut.
  • The cave of Trophonius in Livadeia, Greece; the cavities in the rock are for votive offerings. Etching by Elizabeth Byrne, 1813, after E.D. Clarke.
  • De donariis ac tabellis votivis liber singularis / [Jacopo Filippo Tomasini].
  • Votive offering: placenta, terra cotta, Roman.
  • Relief in form of a shrine: centre Asklepios; behind him his two doctor sons Podalerios and Machaon; his 3 daughters: Iaso, Akeso and Panakeia. Opposite 4 worshippers, in first plan 2 youths. Behind drawn the head of a maid-servant, with a basket of offerings on her head. At feet of god a sacrificial pig.
  • Saint Antony the hermit, Saint Eligius and Saint Sebastian. Coloured aquatint, 1853, after H. Leu the elder.
  • The Virgin, Star of the Sea, venerated by pilgrims and sick people. Woodcut.
  • Ex-voto: head of boy showing ring worm. Cast of original in Museum Campidoglio, Rome. Profile.
  • The Virgin of Succour, Saint Mary of Hietzing, in a tree, being venerated by freed prisoners. Etching.