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  • Three monkeys playing with a ball and chain and potted plant outside a classical house. Etching.
  • Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine salesman demonstrating his wares with the aid of a monkey. Colour line engraving after M. Laroon.
  • Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with assistants at Covent Garden, London. Etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.
  • A large elephant with a monkey on its back and various flowers and insects. Etching by W. Hollar, 1663, after himself.
  • The sense of touch: below, a bespectacled man examines coins and valuables, above, St Thomas puts his finger into the resurrected Christ's side. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • A monkey dressed as a rat-catcher, smokes a pipe, and holds a pole with a wooden box attached to it (containing rat poison) from which dead rats dangle. Pencil drawing with watercolour by Fernand Pelez de Cordova.
  • A dwarf alchemist and his assistant standing by a crucible. Etching, 18th century.
  • A gang of hunters pretend to wash their eyes with a slimy substance, thus fooling the monkeys, who 'ape' them and blind themselves, allowing the hunters to move in. Line engraving by J. Collaert after J. van der Straet, c. 1610.
  • A monkey barber-surgeon's establishment. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • The sense of touch: below, a bespectacled man examines coins and valuables, above, St Thomas puts his finger into the resurrected Christ's side. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • Page 7: Hanuman carrying Rama and Laksmana. Watercolour drawing.
  • A group of physicians having stormy discussions in an elaborately decorated room. Engraving by A.H. Payne after J. Geyer.
  • A man watches as a woman steals money from an old man who is embracing her. Engraving by P. Fürst, 1652.
  • A travelling tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious patient. Engraving by G. Volpato after F. Maggiotto.
  • Rama fighting his twin sons with support from Hanuman. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants. Coloured etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.
  • Birds of prey gathered by a lakeside: falcon, heron, monkey, vulture, sea gull and eagle. Etching by J. Griffier after F. Barlow.
  • A man watches as a woman steals money from an old man who is embracing her. Engraving by P. Fürst, 1652.
  • Vishnu portrayed as in a Maharastra temple with Hanuman and Garuda before him. Chromolithograph.
  • A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with two assistants and a monkey, selling his wares to an excitable crowd. Coloured wood engraving by J. Oortman.
  • A young male physician stirring a medicinal mixture for a female patient, the patient's mother reassures her, a urine flask is on the table. Lithograph by A. Bida after G. Ter Borch, the younger.
  • Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A dwarf alchemist and his assistant standing by a crucible. Etching, 18th century.
  • A boy with a monkey perched on his shoulder is begging for alms from an elegant gentlemen. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal.
  • A monkey wearing human clothes. Gouache, 18--.
  • A monkey shaving a cat's whiskers. Coloured etching by E. Keatinge.
  • Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants. Coloured etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares in a village square with the assistance of a monkey. Pen drawing.