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  • As people collapse with snake bites, Moses brings out the brazen serpent. Woodcut.
  • Two yogis, one meditating, the other performing a fire ritual. Gouache drawing.
  • Moses presents his brazen serpent to the people. Woodcut after Robert Anning Bell, c. 1890.
  • Moses and Eleazar show the brazen serpent before the writhing multitude afflicted with snake-bites. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after P.P. Rubens, ca. 1635-40.
  • Moses and Eleazar reveal the brazen serpent to the people afflicted with snakebite. Lithograph by A. Blanco after P.P. Rubens.
  • People writhe in pain among the fiery serpents as Moses produces the brazen serpent. Line engraving after F. Fenzoni.
  • An indian snake charmer charming a cobra held by his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Anatomy of snakes: eight figures, including scales, a fang, the tails of a boa and a columber snake, and the heads of three species, including a rattle snake, all shown with open jaws. Line engraving after a drawing by S. Edwards (?), 1809.
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Snakes
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Pig trough/urine ditch water
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica: Rice liquor; Guangxi snake liquor
  • Gold ring, Italian, 16th century
  • Steel ring, Italian, 16th century
  • Callicarpa bodinieri var giraldii 'Profusion'
  • Hemlock (Conium maculatum): flowering plants growing by a river. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Yama holding the wheel of life. Distemper painting.
  • Yama holding the wheel of life. Distemper painting.
  • Yama holding the wheel of life. Distemper painting.
  • Yama holding the wheel of life. Distemper painting.
  • Yama holding the wheel of life. Distemper painting.
  • Yama holding the wheel of life. Distemper painting.
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - Snake-Coil boil
  • Minerva visiting Envy in order to punish Aglauros. Etching by J.W. Baur, 16--.
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
  • Saint Hyacinth, Saint Vincent Ferrer and Saint Luis Beltrán. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G.B. Piazzetta.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Gouache.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Gouache.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Ink drawing.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Ink drawing.
  • Colombia: a shed on the banks of a lagoon of the River Cienega. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.