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  • The head of a frog, in the early stages of a physiognomic metamorphosis into an ideal head of Apollo. Coloured drawing by J.C. Lavater, 179-.
  • The bones of a frog, viewed through x-ray; revealing a healing fracture on one of the hind legs. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • A ghost emerging from a hole in the ground; fish, sirens and a frog with a crown in the border. Etching by C.H. Schmidt-Helmbrechts, 1893.
  • A frog is sitting under rushes in a bog facing a fox and surrounded by other animals; illustration of a fable. Etching by J. Kirk after F. Barlow.
  • A frog wearing a crown with the title in Swedish 'A bedtime story' in the form of a verse about AIDS below. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.
  • Skeletons of various reptiles: seven figures, illustrating the skeletons of an alligator, a turtle, a python, a rattlesnake, a frog, an iguana and a chameleon. Line engraving, 1830/1870?.
  • Horses' hooves, seen from below: four figures showing both perfect and contracted feet, demonstrating Mr. Coleman's 'artificial frog' for the preservation of horses' hooves. Etching by J. Barlow, 1802.
  • Twelve stages in the sequence from the head of a frog to the head of a primitive man. Coloured etchings by Christian von Mechel after J.C. Lavater, 1797.
  • Carter's Little Nerve Pills for the nervous & dyspeptic : find - cow, owl, fox, frog, parrot, horse, lizard, goose, man smoking pipe, rooster crowing, General Grant, Romeo and Juliet ... / Carter Medicine Co.
  • Carter's Little Nerve Pills for the nervous & dyspeptic : find - cow, owl, fox, frog, parrot, horse, lizard, goose, man smoking pipe, rooster crowing, General Grant, Romeo and Juliet ... / Carter Medicine Co.
  • A leaping frog startles a huntsman, causing him to tread on his dog's tail and scare away the chamois buck which he was about to shoot. Coloured lithograph by A. Strassgschwandtner after himself, ca. 1860.
  • Nerves(?) of the neck and chest: six figures including a dissected human neck and chest, details of fine structures, and the leg and torso of a dissected frog. Line engraving by G. Wooding (?), ca. 1790.
  • Experiments on the section of the glosso-pharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves of the frog and observations of the alterations produced thereby in the structure of their primitive fibres / by Augustus Waller ; communicated by Professor Owen.
  • The Entente Cordiale: Marianne (a woman representing France) is chasing away a frog on which is written "Anglophobia"; King Edward VII and President Émile Loubet shaking hands in the background. Ink drawing by A.S. Boyd, ca. 1903.
  • A frog representing 'tu' [you] clings on to the wide-open jaws of a small crocodile representing 'el SIDA' [AIDS]; with numerous surrounding AIDS-related messages in Spanish and English; an advertisement by the C.I.A.S. (Comité Independiente Anti-SIDI. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Two frogs. Watercolour drawing.
  • Scheuchzer, 1731-33: frogs
  • The plague of frogs. Coloured etching.
  • Watercolour painting of two frogs in a lily pond.
  • A tortoise is surrounded by frogs on the shore of a lake in which eels are devouring other frogs. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.
  • Electricity: electrical equipment, batteries, etc., and frogs' legs. Engraving, 18--, by Cooper.
  • Two bulls fighting by a pond; frogs in the foreground. Etching by S. Howitt.
  • A battle between frogs and mice (Batrachomyomachia): a kite descends and kills the combatants. Etching.
  • Aaron points his rod at the river and it begins to flow with frogs. Etching.
  • Two bulls fighting by a pond sending frogs leaping into the water. Etching by W.-S. Howitt, ca 1800.
  • Seven animals from Japan, including two frogs, a snail, a slug, a water-bug and a silver fish. Gouache painting.
  • Above, a toucan, two frogs, a bird, an avocet, two sprigs of plants (soapwort and rheum); below, a two horned rhinoceros, three beetles of the genus scarabaeidae, a salmon, and a squirrel. Engraving by Heath.
  • Two spectacle-shaped portraits of a politician and a statesman are arranged over a woman scattering valuables over a crowd with soldiers watching on. Outside the medaillon-shaped frame is a lake with frogs and a captured lion; representing a political message. Etching.
  • Two people reach out to touch the tree of life and hope surrounded by dragonflies, frogs, birds and a butterfly representing an Aboriginal depiction of the cycle of life and the role people must play to ensure an AIDS free future. Colour lithograph by Zane Saunders, March 1993.
  • Patch clamping apparatus for use in ion