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  • Ancestral anthropomorphic effigy, New Guinea.
  • Anthropomorphic effigy, Trobriand Islands, Western Pacific.
  • House-post figure, anthropomorphic effigy, Solomon Islands.
  • Sacred anthropomorphic figure, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
  • Anthropomorphic flute ornament - male effigy, New Guinea.
  • Rattle, West Africa. Nut shells on edge with anthropomorphic figure in the centre
  • An interior of a games room: anthropomorphic figures playing, drinking, and smoking. Colour lithograph.
  • Astronomy: an anthropomorphic comet, with a tail composed of earth-bound objects. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • Interior of a phlebotomist's shop with anthropomorphic participants. Lithograph by J.D. Harding, 1828, after E. Bristow.
  • Interior of a phlebotomist's shop with anthropomorphic participants. Coloured lithograph by J.D. Harding after E. Bristowe.
  • A young man in roman dress has smashed an anthropomorphous sculpture with a club; illustration of a fable. Etching.
  • An anatomy lesson in an apothecary shop; represented by anthropomorphic participants. Engraving after Egbert von Heemskerck, ca. 1730-79.
  • A barber about to shave an unwilling client with anthropomorphic participants. Reproduction of a coloured lithograph by Y.G.
  • Five African statues, effegies including, top right, an anthropomorphic face surrounded by three horn-like structures, Ekoi [?], Nigeria
  • An anthropomorphical figure consisting of a bird's body and a human head is sitting on a branch of a tree. Coloured lithograph by L. Rosenthal.
  • An anthropomorphical figure consisting of a bird's body and a human head is sitting on a branch of a tree next to a dangling noose. Coloured lithograph.
  • A monkey wearing human clothes. Gouache, 18--.
  • A lobster seated at a table, serving itself from a bowl of salad. Drawing by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.
  • A lobster seated at a table, serving itself from a bowl of salad. Drawing by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.
  • Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada
  • A sick frog is administered an enema by one of his companions; other frogs, some anthropomorphised, some not, stand by. Etching with drypoint by F-D. Hillemacher after N. Poussin, 1885.
  • Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada
  • Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada
  • Practitioners and patients in a busy barber-surgeon's shop; represented by monkeys and cats. Engraving by C. Boel after D. Teniers.
  • Top: Daniel O'Connell as a cock supported by Jewish finance and the Roman Catholic church; below, O'Connell withdrawing from fighting a duel (?). Coloured lithograph by Robert Seymour, 1835.
  • A monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Process print after J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A pharmacy: the pharmacist (a fox) tries to sell medicines to a customer in pain (a duck, accompanied by his wife). Painting by L.H. Choustrac, 1905.
  • A monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Process print after J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A monkey barber's shop. Engraving after P. van der Borcht.
  • An monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers II.