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  • The prophecy of Masuka: an African medicine man or shaman of the Nkose watching the future in a bowl. Painting by Stanley Wood, 1894.
  • A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • A man and a woman are weighed to assess their wealth for the purpose of marriage. Engraving, ca. 1600, after C. van Mander.
  • Soldiers looting and pillaging an inn in the countryside after they refused to pay for their board and lodging. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • A public hanging in Trebizond. Wood engraving by Ch. Barbant after Th. Deyrolle.
  • A Rajput soldier and his wife. Gouache painting.
  • William of Orange attacks Louis XIV and James II, who are riding on an ass; Father Petre, confessor to the queen of England, rides on a lobster with the infant Old Pretender; Cardinal Faustenburg falls off a tortoise. Mezzotint by P. Schenck, c. 1689.
  • 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].
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Engraving.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by T. Chambers after R. Cosway, 1787.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Reproduction after J.G. Huquier.
  • Two scenes of Le Chevalier D'Éon fencing at Angelo's Fencing Academy. Reproductions of watercolours, 1904, by T. Rowlandson.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman: shown half in woman's, half in man's attire. Engraving.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Mezzotint by Vispré.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1810.
  • A forlorn looking child with arms outstretched among flowers, representing a child with AIDS ostracized for fear of transmitting the disease. Colour lithograph by J. Keeler, 1987, for the Centre for Attitudinal Healing.