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  • Les monuments alchimiques de Paris. L'unité de la matière. Author's holograph MSS. The first work contains a rough pen-drawing of the tomb of Étienne Yves 1467 in Nôtre Dame de Paris. Produced in Paris. From the Library of Lionel Hauser of Paris with his press-mark label 'L.H.61'.
  • Monument Peruvian du Canar
  • Funerary monument of Fadianus Bubbal.
  • Monument for Duncan Liddel, Pitmeddon.
  • Rock tombs at Beni Hassan, Middle Egypt date from the Middle Kingdom dynasties XI (2060-1991 BCE) and XII (1991-1782 BCE) and rank among the most important monuments of Ancient Egypt. They were built for the dignitaries of Menat-Khufu, one of the oldest place names recorded in ancient Egypt. The tomb walls are decorated with mural paintings executed on rocky walls made smooth with plaster. These paintings are radidly deteriorating and most reproductions are from paintings of the originals. This painting, from the tomb of Khnumenhotep, the Mayor of Menat-Khufu, shows him using a large draw net to capture marsh fowl. The basic sources of animal protein for Ancient Egyptians were wild fowl and fish. A multitude of bird species inhabited the reed beds along the Nile, far more in dynastic times than today. They included ducks, geese, finches, egrets, storks, ibis, cranes and red-breasted goose which is no longer found in Egypt.
  • Rock tombs at Beni Hassan, Middle Egypt date from the Middle Kingdom dynasties XI (2060-1991 BCE) and XII (1991-1782 BCE) and rank among the most important monuments of Ancient Egypt. They were built for the dignitaries of Menat-Khufu, one of the oldest place names recorded in ancient Egypt. The tomb walls are decorated with mural paintings executed on rocky walls made smooth with plaster. These paintings are radidly deteriorating and most reproductions are from paintings of the originals. A small tree full of birds is shown at the bottom left of the tomb. Egypt is on the major migratory route between Europe and Africa which accounts for a variety of birds depicted in illustrations. After slaughter, birds were plucked and either roasted to be eaten immediately, or dried, salted and pickled in large amphorae. Wildfowl such as ducks, geese and cranes were sometimes fattened for the table and occassionally force-ded with bread and sweetened mash. Ducks and geese were also kept for eggs as were pigeons and pelicans. Domestic flow (chickens) were not introduced into Egypt in any numbers until the roman period (30 BCE-CE 395).
  • Design for a Royal monument. Engraving.
  • John Evelyn's monument in Wotton, Surrey. Engraving.
  • Monument to memory of Vesalius, Zante, Greece
  • Medallion on monument to "Trois Medecins Touraugeaux"
  • Monument for Napoleon. Lithograph by A. Leloir.
  • Monument of Lionel Lockyer in Southwark Cathedral
  • Bunker Hill monument, Boston, Massachusetts. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • Monument to R. Burton in Christ Church, Oxford.
  • Joannes Hevelius [Hewelke], his funerary monument. Line engraving.
  • Monument to Dr. William Gilbert, in Holy Trinity Church
  • Proposed monument to Sir Isaac Newton. Engraving, ca. 1830.
  • Church yard in Wotton, Surrey, with John Evelyn's monument. Engraving.
  • The Chinese giant ... : The Jenner monument at Boulogne.
  • The Chinese giant ... : The Jenner monument at Boulogne.
  • John Evelyn's monument in a church in Wotton, Surrey. Pencil drawing.
  • Monument to Sir Hans Sloane in Chelsea, London. Etching, ca. 1830.
  • St John's Church, Dispensary and Wilberforce Monument, Hull, Yorkshire. Line engraving.
  • The choragic monument of Lysicrates, Athens. Photograph (by Pedros Moraites?), ca. 1870.
  • William Gilbert: his monument. Line engraving by G. Vertue after J. Deane.
  • Abelard and Heloise: monument in Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Aquatint after Gaucherel.
  • Sir Isaac Newton: monument. Line engraving after W. Kent and M. Rysbrack.
  • South Africa: a monument to Cecil Rhodes. Photograph by Sir William Crookes, 1905.
  • Abelard and Heloise: monument in Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Coloured drawing with gouache.
  • Monument to Sir Hans Sloane in Chelsea Old Church, London. Etching, ca. 1830.