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  • A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.
  • Head of a lynx and two figures of the head of a beaver. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • The head of an ostrich. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Heads of a horse shoe bat and a common bat. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Head of an ibex. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 183-.
  • Hares recovering after surviving a hunt, one of them taking another's pulse. Lithograph by WBT, 1859.
  • Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 183-.
  • An monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers II.
  • A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.
  • Two men fighting while animals sit in pairs placidly watching; an allegory of man's ability to fight his own kind. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563.
  • Heads of leopards, lions, and a sheep. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Heads of a fox, a wolf and a weasel. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Two physiognomies showing hybrids of man and ox. Drawing, c. 1789, after C. Le Brun.
  • A bear wearing a hat and a cloak, selling pills to a group of country folk in Leipzig. Watercolour.
  • The evolution of a cat into an old woman, and her stool into a dog into a man in a cage into her skirt; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • Animals portraying a pharmacist with customers. Lithographic reproduction after J.I. Grandville, c. 1840.
  • A foppish doctor paying a house call on a young lady with her mother and baby; represented as a mule, a cat, a dog and a kitten respectively. Coloured etching, 1827.
  • An interior of a games room: anthropomorphic figures playing, drinking, and smoking. Colour lithograph.
  • A barber-surgeon's house, where monkeys shave cats and let blood. Line engraving, c. 1660, after D. Teniers II.
  • Four heads of birds: a swan, a polyphemus, a wild duck and a pelican. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Heads of hares, a goat, a boar, and an ass. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Six heads of birds: cocks, parrots and pigeons. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Emily M. Madden's cat Mouton. Drawings by Emily M. Madden, 1856-1859.
  • A fox talking to a chicken; representing a fable by Aesop on false friendship. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • The evolution of a fox riding a goose into a writer seated at his typewriter (or a pianist?) - which in turn evolves into accordion, bellows, money-bag, and handcuffs; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • Two demonic physiognomies, expressive of malignity. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Process print, 19--, after G. Cruikshank, 183-.
  • The evolution of a barrel and goose into a donkey into a man wearing tails; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • The ages of man represented as a step scheme. Reproduction of an engraving by C. Bertelli.