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  • São Fidélis, Brazil: the mission church with houses on the Rio Paraíba, with wooded mountains behind. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1821, after M. Wied-Neuwied.
  • Little Hell, South Africa: the road to Barberton through a barren valley at the base of the Elandsberg mountains. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • A group of badgers with their young are sniffing the ground while some squirrels are gamboling on trees and rocks in the mountains. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • Two dissections showing the muscles of the leg, with marginal sketches including depictions of mountains and a woman in rural costume . Watercolour by J.C. Zeller, ca. 1833.
  • Les Eaux-Bonnes, Pyrénées: the town with surrounding mountains, and people in the foreground on a path above the town. Coloured lithograph by J. Jacottet after himself and A. Bayot, 1842.
  • Interior of the crater of one of the little mountains raised by the eruption of Vesuvius in 1760, with large and small fragments of larva. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
  • Buffon's Natural history, abridged. Including the history of the elements, the earth, mountains, rivers, seas, winds, whirlwinds, waterspouts, volcanoes, earthquakes, man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, shell-fish, lizards, serpents, insects, and vegetables / [George Louis Leclerc Buffon].
  • Buffon's Natural history, abridged. Including the history of the elements, the earth, mountains, rivers, seas, winds, whirlwinds, waterspouts, volcanoes, earthquakes, man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, shell-fish, lizards, serpents, insects, and vegetables / [George Louis Leclerc Buffon].
  • Buffon's Natural history, abridged. Including the history of the elements, the earth, mountains, rivers, seas, winds, whirlwinds, waterspouts, volcanoes, earthquakes, man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, shell-fish, lizards, serpents, insects, and vegetables / [George Louis Leclerc Buffon].
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: an avalanche of rocks falls on to a road through mountains, breaking the roadside wall and blocking the progress of a car. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 197-.
  • A First World War military camp (?): a military priest (?), (wearing a black hat with a cross), stands in front of tents in a field with mountains in the background; several other soldiers nearby. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Geography: two rotating discs (volvelles) showing the times at different places compared to London, and the constellations visible in the sky at different dates and times, fixed to a card giving details of their use, and dimensions of rivers and mountains. Coloured engraving.
  • Geography: two rotating discs (volvelles) showing the times at different places compared to London, and the constellations visible in the sky at different dates and times, fixed to a card giving details of their use, and dimensions of rivers and mountains. Coloured engraving.
  • A native American man wearing a feather head dress holds another across his knees against a backdrop of snow covered mountains; a calendar for 1995 by VIVA, Lesbian and Gay Latino artists to support those with HIV. Colour lithograph after Joey Terrill, 1994.
  • Nepal; herdsmen of the Khumbu, 1986. Three herdsmen stop for refreshments at the Shomare Hotel. The sign above the door of this tea shop reads: 'Wel-come to Shomare Hotel', evidence that westerners pass the door en rout to the high mountains.
  • A newly discovered animal! : The bonassus from the Apalachian mountains of America, is seventeen months old, and five feet ten inches high ... to be seen at 287, Strand between St. Mary-le-Strand and St. Clement's churches, aslo with an entrance at 41, Holywell-Street ...
  • Rhodiola rosea L. Crassulaceae Golden root, roseroot Distribution: Arctic, Eastern North America, mountains of central Asia. Herbalists regard it as having curative properties for diseases as diverse as cancer, influenza, depression and other conditions. It has not been licensed for use in manufactured herbal medicines in the UK. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tharp Mountain Girdlestone. Photograph.
  • Tharp Mountain Girdlestone. Photograph.
  • Table Bay from the Mountain
  • Berberis aquifolium (Oregon, Mountain, Grape)
  • Cavalry passing mountain river, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • General view of the Culebra Mountain
  • Four ibexes or mountain goats. Watercolour.
  • Welsh Mountain rams: excessive pastern slope.
  • Menstrual blood, artwork title "Small Red Mountain"
  • Transporting artillery through a mountain pass, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Cavalry marching through a mountain river, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Bagh-e Babor on the western slope of mountain
  • Bagh-e Babor on the western slope of mountain