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  • A man standing on a ladder holds up his hands to hold onto a telephone pylon to save himself from falling as a puzzled bird flies above; a safe-sex advertisement for Salama condoms to prevent AIDS. Lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A spider, annoyed by a swallow which was catching all the flies, plans to catch the swallow in its web, but is shown to be deluded when the swallow carries off both the spider and the web; illustration of a fable. Etching by D. Stoop, 1665.
  • A woman with an open burgundy coloured shirt revealing her breasts stares wide-eyed at a diver holding onto a tray on which sit condoms and a clockwatch; a personified condom flies into the air off a skateboard while a telescope bearing an eye sticks out of the woman's top pocket; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Landsforeningen Ungdomsringen. Colour lithograph by Robert Lindvig, ca. 1995.
  • A multi-horned ram holding a staff and flag within a red planet with an orange glow at the centre of a starry universe; a red drawn multi-headed fire-breathing winged serpent and personified half-moon in the lower half of the image, yellow drawn knights on horseback coming to the rescue and a glowing sun in the upper half; an astronaut hovers at the right side of the planet while an angel flies at the left; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Nelson Garrido, ca. 1994/5.
  • A multi-horned ram holding a staff and flag within a red planet with an orange glow at the centre of a starry universe; a red drawn multi-headed fire-breathing winged serpent and personified half-moon in the lower half of the image, yellow drawn knights on horseback coming to the rescue and a glowing sun in the upper half; an astronaut hovers at the right side of the planet while an angel flies at the left; one of a series of anti-AIDS posters produced by Artis entitled 'Imágenes contra el SIDA' [Images against AIDS]. Colour lithograph by Nelson Garrido, ca. 1994/5.
  • Twenty five different insects and the plants they live on. Engraving by I. Taylor.
  • Diseases spread by the house fly. Colour lithograph by L.H. Wilder for the U.S. Public Health Service, 1912/1922.
  • Fifteen different insects and the plants they live on. Engraving by I. Taylor.
  • A louse fly (Hippobosca rufipes). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • Robber fly (Asilidae)
  • The ox warble fly (Hypoderma bovis). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • A stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • A horse fly (Tabanus socius). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • A fly (Hoplistomerus serripes). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • Microscopy: parts of a fly's proboscis [?]. Pen and ink drawing, on tracing paper.
  • A horse fly (Tabanus biguttatus). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • A horse fly (Tabanus gratus). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • A horse fly (Tabanus ditaemiatus). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • A tsetse fly (Glossina palpalis). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • A wingless sheep fly (Melophagus ovinus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Microscopy: parts of a fly's eyes [?]. Pen and ink drawing, on tracing paper.
  • A bird or bat fly (Penicillidia dufouri). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • A cleg (Haematopota pulchrithorax). Coloured pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • A tsetse fly (Glossina morbitans). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • A cleg or horse fly (Tabanus biguttatus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • A cleg or horse fly (Tabanus ditaeniatus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • A tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • A horse fly (Tabanus dorsivitta). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • A horse fly (Hippobosca rufipes). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • A blow fly (Chrysomya chloropyga). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.