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  • A bulbous shape with curved facets. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A bulbous shape with curved facets. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A purple mesh of curved lines with spiky tips. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • An anguished figure in a red aureole, holding a curved knife. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • An anguished figure in a red aureole, holding a curved knife. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A curved pathway past a small garden, probably leading to a plague hospital in Bombay. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A ram, possibly of the blue or Burrhel sheep, with long curved horns. Lithograph by J Wolf.
  • A Prussian soldier facing a Swiss soldier with their curved swords crossed. Coloured engraving by J. Chapman after C. Elliott.
  • A Chinese deity with the third eye, a bow and arrows and two curved daggers. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist.
  • A horse rocks to and fro on a curved platform, another rolls a barrel with its hooves. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Two naked men stand at an anvil: one holds a piece of curved metal and both pound it with hammers. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Surgery: surgical instruments, including a catheter, a curved chisel, a curette, needles and a bistoury. Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after Louis-Jacques Goussier .
  • The Porto Pavone on the island of Nisida, showing the curved sides of a sunken crater; Pietro Fabris sketching and Sir William Hamilton in the foreground. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
  • A walkway curving around into a street plaza/square populated with people engaged in various activities with numerous signs with messages relating to AIDS and HIV; an advertisement by the Comision Anti-SIDA de Alava. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Complete skeleton of a flamingo (Phoenicopteridae). Flamingos are tall wading birds with long, delicate legs and downturned bills. They also have long, curved necks which are made up of multiple vertebrae as seen here. The flamingo is 62 cm from ground to shoulder.
  • Two open mouths bearing tongues curving up in a phallic way and joining in the middle with the message in German 'kissing does not kill'; a safe sex advertisement by the Real AIDS Grazer Kunst Verein. Colour lithograph by Matthias Herrmann, 1993.
  • A face made up of two coloured condoms as eyes, a syringe as a nose and the words in French: "1st December 1994 World AIDS Day" in the curved shape of a mouth; an advertisement by Stell and Ryck & Lola. Colour lithograph by S. Senta Loys.
  • A crouching male figure with the words 'oppression' curving around his back and a another male figure raising his arms in the air with words 'liberation' representing an advertisement for Freedom, a safe-sex celebration dance party in aid of AIDS/HIV at The Old 'Star' Building, Christchurch in association with the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Lithograph.
  • Chloroplasts in a plant cell, in this case a spinach leaf. Inside the chloroplasts, the stacks of thylakoid membranes are where the action takes place. The dark spots are starch granules. In close proximity are the mitochondria, with curved membranes, and the endothelial reticulum. This system of membranes navigates between the energy producing organelles until it reaches the nucleus, where it also forms the nuclear membranes.
  • Sclera (white part) of the human eye
  • Human eye with blue iris
  • Human eye with blue iris
  • Human eye with blue iris
  • Human eye with blue iris
  • Madagascan sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) scales
  • Human eye
  • Acupuncture chart: side of the head, Chinese woodcut
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Location of various boils
  • A man whose physiognomy reveals a "sage, honorable, sprightly, judicious, profound, pious" character. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Macao, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870.