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  • Left, a ship symbolising British commerce is going at full speed; right, the ship symbolising German commerce is rusty and covered with spider's webs. Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
  • Araneus diadematus orb web Spider (female)
  • A garden spider, shown in the centre of its web. Chromolithograph, 1870.
  • A woman standing in a window is caught in a spider's web. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A woman standing in a window is caught in a spider's web. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A giant spider catching crowds of humans in its web; representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by B. Cascella, ca. 1920.
  • A giant spider catching crowds of humans in its web; representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by B. Cascella, ca. 1920.
  • A giant spider catching crowds of humans in its web; representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by B. Cascella, ca. 1920.
  • A spider, annoyed by a swallow which was catching all the flies, plans to catch the swallow in its web, but is shown to be deluded when the swallow carries off both the spider and the web; illustration of a fable. Etching by D. Stoop, 1665.
  • A large barbary spider with her young in her web. Etching by J. Pass, ca. 1796, after J. E. Ihle.
  • A woman caught in a spider web: female genital mutilation in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Ahfad Reproductive Health Centre, ca. 1999.
  • A mother stops flies from pestering her young son by constructing a fake spider's web out of wool. Colour process print, 1909.
  • The four heroic retainers of Raikō (Yorimitsu) with flaming torches, about to kill the great earth spider in its web. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1810s.
  • A spanner and an adjustable spanner, as if in conversation, standing against a brick wall covered with a spider's web. Colour lithograph after G.R. Morris, 1945.
  • Allegorical figures hold up two scrolls, separated by a spider's web: one shows a straight line between "Charitas" and "Iustitia"; the other a crooked line between "Invidia" and "Avaritia". Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • Phrenological propensities: adhesiveness, inhabitiveness, constructiveness, combativeness, destructiveness; illustrated by a couple stuck in a bog, a snail in its shell, a spider in its web, a huge brawl, a bull in a china shop. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • Phrenological propensities: adhesiveness, inhabitiveness, constructiveness, combativeness, destructiveness; illustrated by a couple stuck in a bog, a snail in its shell, a spider in its web, a huge brawl, a bull in a china shop. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • Animal Materia medica.
  • Garden spider
  • Silk-spinning organs of a spider
  • A bird's beak cuts a woman's hand; representing the sense of touch and the fact that it persists longer (in pain) than the other senses. Engraving, 16--.
  • Jumping spider (Phidippus audax)
  • Male jumping spider (Platycryptus undatus)
  • Brown jumping spider (unknown species)
  • Brown jumping spider (unknown species)
  • Orange and white jumping spider (unknown species)
  • Jumping spider (unknown species)
  • Jumping spider (Hentzia)
  • Male jumping spider (possibly Platycryptus undatus)
  • Ivory ornamental spider silk (Poecilotheria subfusca)