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Concept

Relaxation

Images

  • An écorché face showing the state of the facial muscles during relaxation. Stipple engraving by H. Singleton (?) after G.T. Stubbs after G. Stubbs, 1815.
  • An Englishman sits smoking a hookah as an Asian man approaches making a salaam. Engraving by W. Humphrys, c. 1834, after W. Daniell.
  • Men playing backgammon outside in an arbor, nearby others smoke and drink. Etching by J. de Visscher after A. van Ostade.
  • An écorché face showing the state of the facial muscles during relaxation. Stipple engraving by H. Singleton (?) after G.T. Stubbs after G. Stubbs, 1815.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients engaged in reading, writing, playing cards, etc. Coloured lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: in the afternoon, nurses massage a patient, apply electrical muscle stimulation, knit and chat. Colour and coloured lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A sailor sitting on a barrel and smoking. Reproduction of a woodcut, early 19th century.
  • Pastimes: listening to a precocious chiild, creating a sculpture, a life class for women, and an artist's reminiscences of plein-air painting in Italy. Coloured lithograph after H. Monnnier, 1839.
  • An écorché face showing the state of the facial muscles during relaxation. Stipple engraving by H. Singleton (?) after G.T. Stubbs after G. Stubbs, 1815.
  • A man sits at a barrel-table to light his pipe, others in the room smoke and drink. Engraving by T. Major, 1746, after D. Teniers.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    I find water relaxing / Stefan Alexander.

    Alexander, Stefan | Date: [2018]
    • Videos

    Relaxation and biofeedback.

    | Date: Nd
    • Books

    Relax and be successful / [James Hewitt].

    Hewitt, James, 1928- | Date: [1951]
    • Books

    You must relax : a practical method of reducing the strains of modern living / by Edmund Jacobson, M.D.

    Jacobson, Edmund, 1888-1983. | Date: 1934
    • Books

    The sweetness of doing nothing : on calmness and silence and how to achieve it / a book by Lara Kaminski.

    Kaminski, Lara | Date: [2017]
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