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  • Lakshmi sitting on a lotus being anointed by two elephants. Watercolour drawing.
  • A goose. Watercolour drawing.
  • A courtesan holding a rose. Watercolour drawing.
  • Shiva begging from Annapurna. Watercolour drawing.
  • A goddess on a flowering plant holding a baby elephant, could either be Lakshmi or Parvati. Watercolour drawing.
  • Domestic violence: a husband holding his wife by the hair about to strike her with a shoe, while she tries to defend herself with a broom. Watercolour drawing.
  • The Tarakeshwar murder: Elokeshi offers a betel-leaf to the seated Mahant. Watercolour drawing.
  • Two lovers, or a man with a courtesan, holding roses, within an oval frame. Watercolour drawing.
  • A courtesan reclining on cushions. Watercolour drawing.
  • The court of the jackal raja. Watercolour drawing c. 1870.
  • Two men carrying a captured monkey tied to a pole, possibly Hanuman. Watercolour drawing.
  • Sarasvati sitting on lotuses plying her vina. Watercolour drawing.
  • A bird of prey carrying off a fish. Watercolour drawing.
  • Saraswati sitting on a lotus with her elephant fish. Coloured lithograph.
  • Two lovers, or a man with a courtesan, holding roses, within an oval frame. Watercolour drawing.
  • Kali holding a demon's head. Watercolour.
  • Shiva and his symbols. Watercolour drawing.
  • A distraught Shiva carrying the body of his wife. Watercolour drawing.
  • Hanuman revealing Rama and Sita in his heart. Watercolour drawing.
  • A woman holding a pitcher. Watercolour.
  • A woman pulling giant aubergines from a tree. Watercolour.
  • Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo Fracastoro) shows the shepherd Syphilus and the hunter Ilceus a statue of Venus to warn them against the danger of infection with syphilis. Engraving by Jan Sadeler I, 1588/1595, after Christoph Schwartz.
  • The tree of intemperance, showing diseases and vices caused by alcohol. Coloured lithograph, 18--.
  • The dance of death: the abbot. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar after Hans Holbein the younger.
  • The power of counsel: Daniel interpreting the dream related by Nebuchadnezzar. Engraving by Adrian Collaert after Jan van der Straet, 1567/1605.
  • The power of wisdom: Solomon gives the order that a child should be cut in half to stop two women fighting over it. Engraving by Adrian Collaert after Jan van der Straet, 1567/1605.
  • The dance of death: the merchant. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.
  • The dance of death: the merchant. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.
  • American Red Cross HIV/AIDS program.
  • American Red Cross HIV/AIDS program