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  • Imhotep, six Ancient Egyptian figures, bronze and one plaster cast
  • An Indian man of the "China caste" and his wife. Gouache painting.
  • The cast of a play produced at St. Mary's Hospital in 1905.
  • Tumour on the face of the patient John Le Visconte: a post-mortem head and shoulders plaster cast. Photograph, ca. 1901, of a plaster cast by J. Sinel & Son, 1901.
  • A man of "Pundarum caste". Gouache painting on mica, by an Indian artist.
  • An Indian mendicant man and his wife, of the "Bynagy" caste. Gouache painting.
  • A man is held down by four men in a bedchamber while a man castrates him with a knife. Etching.
  • The bloodless castrator, Burdizzo pattern, for horses, bulls, sheep, pigs, etc. : instructions for use ... prices ... / Arnold & Sons.
  • The bloodless castrator, Burdizzo pattern, for horses, bulls, sheep, pigs, etc. : instructions for use ... prices ... / Arnold & Sons.
  • King Shantanu proposes to the low caste fisher girl Satyavatī (Matsyagandha). Chromolithograph after R. Varma.
  • An ensemble cast of British soldiers, some in drag, pose on stage. Photographic postcard, 1919.
  • An ensemble cast of British soldiers, some in drag, pose on stage. Photographic postcard, 1919.
  • Civil engineering: a cast iron bridge, proposed for the Menai Straits. Lithograph, 1849, after E. Clark.
  • The wife of a man of "Pundarum caste". Gouache painting on mica, by an Indian artist.
  • Ex-voto: head of boy showing ring worm. Cast of original in Museum Campidoglio, Rome. Profile.
  • Horse's skull carved in piece of reindeer antler. Le Mas d'Azil, Ariege. Cast in the Wellcome Museum.
  • An arrangement of different castes including snake charmer, brick-layer, basket-maker, potter and wives. Gouache drawing.
  • R. L. Lewis pattern cord-holding forceps : prov. pat. 1657 : for use in conjunction with the "Burdizzo" (or similar) castrator / Arnold & Sons.
  • A member of the Vaishya caste holding a bunch of bananas with his wife holding a betel leaf. Gouache drawing.
  • A div (demon) is bound and cast into cave by a woman. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, ca. 1850(?).
  • Chinese sword-swallower and entertainer swinging a rope with cast metal weights attached to it. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Two European men standing next to tombs in the Bay of Castries, Saint Lucia. Etching by J. Heath, 1798, after G. Duché de Vancy.
  • A pigmy elephant with crooked legs having a plaster cast applied by the zoo superintendent, Dr. Vevers, prior to corrective treatment. Photograph, ca. 1925.
  • A young woman listens with her eyes cast down as her companion plays a harp. Pen and ink drawing by Sir Joseph Noël Paton.
  • St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: a girl in a plaster cast from the waist down, with a nurse supporting her. Photograph, c. 1935.
  • A cast of a rabbit with a hole in the middle and one ear missing appearing to float within a neutral background; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Liliana Porter, [1995].
  • A British polo-player, adding a prize for polo to his prize for golf, casts an envious eye on the America's Cup, which Uncle Sam wants to keep. Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
  • Saint Eufemia. May be Hope from a series of panels representing Faith, Hope and Charity. Not like any known representation of Saint Euphemia, bhut as she was cast into a river the anchor may be significant.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: Vulcan, the Roman god of the forge: a 56 foot high statue in the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy. Photograph, 1904, of a cast iron statue by Giuseppe Moretti, ca. 1904.
  • Nepal; foot transport in the Khumbu, 1986. Two young Sherpas carry planks of wood up to the village of Kunde (altitude 3600 metres). Wearing boots which are barely held together and cast-off clothing from Western trekkers, these men transport building materials up a precipitous track.