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  • A chicken family in traditional Japanese dress entertain a rabbit in western dress: new year ornaments hang from the top left. Colour woodcut, 1870s.
  • A rabbit mother, having given birth to twins, lies in bed; a hen midwife presents her with the second baby, while a fish (?) looks on. Colour woodcut, ca. 1870.
  • A male frog, playing a guitar, serenading a female seated on a mushroom. Photograph by J.P. Soule, 1876, after a drawing.
  • A male and female frog promenading. Photograph by J.P. Soule, ca. 1876, after a drawing.
  • Interior of a dentist's surgery with animal participants. Reproduction of a coloured wood engraving.
  • A frog setting off to see his lady-friend. Photograph by J.P. Soule, ca. 1876, after a drawing.
  • A monkey squirting water through a large syringe at two other monkeys. Lithograph.
  • A monkey alchemist. Oil painting by E. Bristow.
  • A toad in morning dress, holding an umbrella and a bunch of flowers. Watercolour by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.
  • Monkeys dressed as apothecaries caring for sick animals in a surgery. Engraving by C. Boel after D. Teniers.
  • An anatomy lesson in an apothecary shop; represented by anthropomorphic participants. Engraving after Egbert von Heemskerck, ca. 1730-79.
  • A bat and three fully dressed birds flying by moonlight. Watercolour by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.
  • A puppy telling a wild boar that his tusks are a result of bad dentistry. Wood engraving by Anderson.
  • A monkey wearing human clothes. Gouache, 18--.
  • A male and female frog courting, watched by a frog voyeur. Photograph by J.P. Soule, 1876, after a drawing by F(?). Lord.
  • Six kittens asleep in a canopied bed; a mouse and three candles in the foreground. Watercolour by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.
  • Six kittens in a canopied bed woken by a mouse; three candles in the foreground. Watercolour by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.
  • Frogs conducting a duel: one frog has killed another with his sword, watched by their seconds. Photograph by J.P. Soule, 1876, after a drawing.
  • Fish in human situations. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1832.
  • A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving after E. van Heemskerck.
  • A lobster seated at a table, serving itself from a bowl of salad. Drawing by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.
  • A monkey barber-surgeon's establishment. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • A dog, dressed as a scientist, performing an experiment on a human being; representing vivisection. Reproduction of a drawing after OBC(?).
  • Three cats performing a song and dance act. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939.
  • Three cats singing. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939.
  • A monkey dressed as a rat-catcher, smokes a pipe, and holds a pole with a wooden box attached to it (containing rat poison) from which dead rats dangle. Pencil drawing with watercolour by Fernand Pelez de Cordova.
  • A monkey barber-surgeon's establishment. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • A procession of animals carrying guns and playing music is following a standard-bearing wolf on to a market place. Colour lithograph attributed to J.F.L. Dreier.
  • Three cats performing a song and dance act. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939.
  • A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving by W.H. Toms after E. van Heemskerck.