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  • Woman churning yoghurt with a baby on her lap. Chromolithograph.
  • Eagle of Delight, a native American woman of the Oto (Otoe) tribe. Coloured lithograph by Childs & Inman after C. B. King, 1833.
  • Female Flying Pigeon, a native American woman with plaits, wearing a pink dress with flower decor and shawl, necklaces and holding a feather fan. Colour lithograph by Lehman & Duval after C. B. King, 1837.
  • A bangle maker and his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A machi, or medicine woman, Araucania, Chile.
  • A heavily jewelled Mahalakshmi with two parrots. Coloured transfer lithograph by A.R. Raghunath, 1897.
  • Shaumonekusse, a chief of the Oto (Otoe) tribe, wearing a crown hair piece with horns, a bear-claw necklace and a medallion. Colour lithograph by C. G. Childs after C. B. King, 1833.
  • Two money-lenders counting their money and keeping their accounts, one wears spectacles. Stipple engraving by T. Cheesman, 1791, after Q. Matsys.
  • Sita in captivity in Lanka being tempted by Ravana. Chromolithograph.
  • A Jain bringing money home to his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Krishna spilling the milk maids pots. Chromolithograph.
  • Rama and his mother with a parrot. Chromolithograph, 1867.
  • Dhakate Bajirava Saheb. Coloured lithograph, 1888.
  • Rebecca admires the clothes and jewellery given to her by Abraham's servant. Watercolour painting by Juliana Howard, 1824.
  • A provocative naked young woman lying on a bed, death (a cloaked skeleton) sits at her side, a naked man walks away from the bed with his head bowed, towards a throng of diseased and dying people; representing syphilis. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • A Sikh and his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Cornplanter, a leader of the Seneca tribe, holding a smoking pipe with pipe attachments and axe-blades. Colour lithograph by J.T. Bowen after F. Bartoli, 1836.
  • Indian doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Gouache drawing.
  • A Moorish man with wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A Moorish soldier and wife from Poona. Gouache drawing.
  • Four distinctive and elaborately adorned women presenting a queen with many riches; representing Europe, Asia, Africa and America bearing the natural bounty of the world to an allegorical figure. Line engraving.
  • A man bleeding a woman in her arm by using a bow and arrow. Etching.
  • Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Two women with water vessels at a well, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Ahilyabai Holkar with two female attendants holding a diplomatic meeting between a nobleman and subject ruler. Chromolithograph.
  • A South African medicine man or shaman. Colour process print after a photograph by G.W. Wilson.
  • Krishna as an infant sitting on Yasoda's lap with a female attendant. Chromolithograph by R. Varma, 1895.
  • A Moodaly and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian goldsmiths at work. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian cobbler and wife. Gouache drawing.