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  • Balarāma, Subhadrā and Lord Jagannāth from left to right. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Two plants of the Compositae family: a flowering thistle (left) and yellow chrysanthemum (right). Watercolour.
  • Venus (right), Taurus, Libra and three lunar masions of Taurus (left) from Persian Manuscript 373
  • A seated male nude with left arm and right leg raised. Chalk drawing by Pickersgill.
  • Shiva Nataraja dancing on the demon Apasmāra, with Nandi bull (left) and Parvati (right). Gouache.
  • Jagannāth, Subhadrā and Balarāma standing from right to left. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A seated male nude with left arm and right leg raised. Chalk drawing by Pickersgill.
  • Ronald Ross (left) and Donald Morphett Mars Ross (right). Photograph by Mee Cheung, Kulangsu, Amoy.
  • The Leper Settlement, Providencia Island, Venezuela: the wards (right) and the chapel (left). Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Left, poisonous fang of an asp viper; right, head of an adder, with mouth wide open and tongue protruding. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • Left, a choir singing mass for a deceased placed before them in a coffin; right, monks ringing bells in a belfry. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A frightened and an angry face, left and right respectively. Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • Anatomy and botany; top, hyoid bone and vertebrae; left, vertebral column; right, gentian. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • Anatomy and botany: top left, arteries in thorax and abdomen; top right, superior section of the brain; centre left, lateral distortion owing to chronic pleurisy; centre right, part of the lung; bottom, foxglove and aconite. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • Left, catheters for the treatment of stones and disesases of the urethra; right, a boy held in the right position for the performance of the cutting of a stone and various instruments for this operation. Engraving with etching by R. Parr.
  • Thorn tree for punishment of adultry (top left) and ghouls in hell with Phra Malai above them (top right), the poor woodcutter picks lotus flowers in a pond (bottom right) and presents them to Phra Malai (bottom left)
  • Thorn tree for punishment of adultry (top left) and ghouls in hell with Phra Malai above them (top right), the poor woodcutter picks lotus flowers in a pond (bottom right) and presents them to Phra Malai (bottom left)
  • Left, the sun depicting Disraeli is setting on a devastated land; right, the sun depicting Gladstone is rising, bringing hope and a blooming economy. Lithograph, 1879.
  • A face expressing hatred and jealousy (left) and a face expressing despair (right). Engravings after C. Le Brun.
  • James Hutton (left) and Joseph Black (right), natural philosophers, talking together. Etching and aquatint by J. Kay, 1787.
  • Clocks: a Ferguson clock, face (right), and diagrams of the mechanism (left). Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Two écorché horses: left and right side views. Line engraving with etching by A. Bell, 1770/1800?.
  • Two écorché horses: left and right side views. Line engraving with etching by A. Bell, 1770/1800?.
  • Clocks: a Smeaton-Franklin clock face (left), and mechanism (right). Engraving by A. Bell, ca. 1798.
  • A man with goitre: front (left) and profile (right) views. Etching by J.R. Schellenberg, 1778.
  • Vincent's angina: microscopic views of spirochetes (left) and bacillus fusiformis (right). Drawing by Jean Hyacinthe Vincent.
  • Pelvis of E. Welch, showing disease of right hip and dislocaton of left hip. Radiograph, 1900/1904.
  • Two Indian men in profile to right: (left) a man with a sword and (right) a man standing. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Left, red and purple diagonals and a person standing on a mountain top attacked by snakes; right, a person stranded dangling on a mountain top. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1976.
  • Anchises, Dione, and Aeneas (centre); Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (left); Pan and Eros (right). Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.