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  • Madar plant (Calotropis gigantea (L.) R.Br.): flowering and fruiting stem. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1705.
  • Plates of a cleft fossil, melons of stone and the ruined church of St. Iuan d'Akari. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, c.1704.
  • Places and plants from Lebanon, including rose of Jericho and cedars of Gaza. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, c.1704.
  • Tropical fruits, including guava, custard apple, lemon, pompelmous and plantain bananas. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
  • Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive. Mezzotint by C. Corbutt after T. Gainsborough.
  • A tropical orchid (Epidendrum tessellatum), three day-flies (Ephemera species) and a small beetle (Erodius species). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1804, after J. Ihle.
  • The north east view of Angengo Fort on the coast of Malabar.
  • Birds and plants from Persia, including turtledoves, senna plant, terpentine plant, pomegranate flowers and tree and pumpkin . Line engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruin, 1704.
  • Heads and faces of twenty men facing one another in pairs. Coloured aquatint with etching.
  • [India Orientalis]. Pt. 3. Latin] [Voyages] Tertia pars Indiæ Orientalis. Qua continentur I. Secunda pars nauigationum à Ioanne Hvgone Lintschotano in Orientem susceptarum ... II. Nauigatio Hollandorum in insulas Orientales, Iavan & Svmatram ... III. Tres nauigationes Hollandorum in ... Indiam per Septentrionalem ... Oceanum [Gerardo de Veer auctore] ... De Germanico in Latinum. Translata, et bono ordine disposita à Bilibaldo Strobæo Silesio [etc.] Adiectæ svnt tabluæ, cum iconibus alijs, in æs incisæ per Ioan.
  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
  • Two zebus grazing near a river with a temple in the background. Coloured lithograph.
  • Ghāzīpur, Uttar Pradesh: a ruined palace on the river Ganges. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1785.
  • An "Abor barber" dressing a man's hair. Halftone.
  • A sepoy and his wife. Gouache drawing, 18--.
  • Willem ten Rhijne, Dissertatio de arthritide
  • The Mughal emperor being weighed on his birthday. Coloured etching.
  • Fancy Bazaar on board the 'Monarch' and 'Agamemnon'
  • A snake, dark blue-grey in colour, with brown, black and pale blue flecked markings. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • Sikandra, near Agra, Uttar Pradesh: mausoleum of the Emperor Akbar. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Sikandra, near Agra, Uttar Pradesh: mausoleum of the Emperor Akbar. Watercolour.
  • Sikandra, near Agra, Uttar Pradesh: gateway to the mausoleum of the Emperor Akbar. Gouache painting.
  • The Kass Mahal, part of the Red Fort at Agra. Watercolour.
  • Sikandra, near Agra, Uttar Pradesh: gateway to the mausoleum of the Emperor Akbar. Watercolour.
  • Sikandra, near Agra, Uttar Pradesh: mausoleum of the Emperor Akbar. Watercolour.
  • 6 toothbrushes, primitive and modern.
  • An East Indiaman (ship) buffeted by winds blown by four putti directed by the Earl of Buckinghamshire, President of the Board of Control. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1813.
  • The shopfront of the truss-maker Timothy Sheldrake, at No. 50 The Strand, London; royal coat of arms above the bay window. Engraving by T. Medland, ca. 1820.
  • A snake, slender and pale brown in colour, with large dark brown oblong-shaped markings running along its back: includes an outline drawing of the tail. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A snake, (bungarus caeruleus?) yellow and tan in colour, with brown and black diamond-shaped markings. Watercolour, ca. 1795.