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  • Monkeys dressed as apothecaries caring for sick animals in a surgery. Engraving by C. Boel after D. Teniers.
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares in a village square with the assistance of a monkey. Pen drawing.
  • Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with assistants at Covent Garden, London. Etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.
  • Half-human, half-monkey barbers shaving a goat. Etching by G. van der Gucht after J. Wootton.
  • A monkey, dressed in human clothing and holding up a medicinal remedy: representing quacks or itinerant medicine vendors. Lithograph by W. Nichol after J. Watteau.
  • A monkey dressed in preparation against the cholera epidemic. Etching, c. 1832.
  • A tooth-drawer performing to a crowd accompanied by a howling patient, a monkey and a man dressed in Roman costume. Coloured lithograph by Lavrate(?).
  • A wealthy family arriving at a hotel and being greeted by the proprietor. Engraving.
  • Hanuman holding Rama and Laksmana fighting with Sarupnakha. Watercolour drawing.
  • Second appearance, these three years, of Mrs. Yates whom is engaged for six nights only : second appearance of Monsieur Bihin the celebrated Belgian giant, the tallest and handsomest man in the world, and also of the original troupe of Parisian monkeys! / Theatre Royal, Dublin.
  • People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
  • Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
  • A female figure with bowls of fruit and a monkey; Eve picks the apple from the tree of knowledge; representing the sense of taste. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
  • Paradise lost : break the chain / BUAV.
  • James Graham and Gustavus Katterfelto in combat using electrotherapy machines as weapons. Etching, 1783.
  • A barber-surgeon's house, where monkeys shave cats and let blood. Line engraving, c. 1660, after D. Teniers II.
  • Four monkeys dressed as musicians giving a concert. Coloured engraving after D Teniers.
  • Five apes: orangutan, Barbary ape, baboon, leonine monkey and varied monkey. Etching by J. Scott, ca. 1808.
  • A monkey rejects the old style clyster for his new 'clyso-pompe', which he fills with opium and marshmallow. Coloured lithograph.
  • A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.
  • An alchemist's laboratory inhabited by monkeys: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after their obsessive, fruitless experiments. Etching by P. van der Borcht, ca. 1580.
  • A medicine vendor tying up his pet monkey. Etching by T. Major after D. Teniers II.
  • Paradise lost : break the chain / BUAV.
  • A monkey squirting water through a large syringe at two other monkeys. Lithograph.
  • A labourer asks a gentleman for his wages so that he may get drunk; both represented as dwarfs. Coloured etching after M. Engelbrecht, 1715.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor sitting on a donkey with his boxes of medicines, a monkey sits on his shoulder and a boy in a fool's costume blows a trumpet. Watercolour by M. Calisch.
  • The evolution of a monkey into a boy and a balloon into a cage for a parrot; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • Separate pictures of garden fruit, flowers, vegetables, birds, dogs and two monkeys dressed as gardeners. Coloured etchings, 18th century.
  • Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine salesman demonstrating his wares with the aid of a monkey. Engraving after M. Laroon.