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  • Shiva with the Ganges flowing from his head and Parvati seated on a tiger skin with Ganesha, Skanda and Nandi bull surrounded by devotees. Gouache drawing.
  • A tiger and an ox are fighting in front of a cave in the mountains with palm trees in the background. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • A tiger lies in the foreground shot by an archer who appears between the trees; illustration for a fable by J. Ogilby. Etching by W. Hollar, 1668.
  • Java (Indonesia): animals and indigenous people, including Javan labourers, Javan warriors, a bride of a higher class and a native sportsman being attacked by a tiger. Lithograph.
  • A man on a white horse being attacked by a tiger with the two other men rushing to save him. Gouache painting on mica by an Indic artist.
  • The mahatmya of the 13th adhyaya. An adulterous woman from the city of Harinam goes to the forest with her husband and is attacked by a tiger who only eats those who commit immoral acts. Reborn as a low-caste Chandala, the woman hears the 13th adhyaya of the Bhagvadgita from the holy man and asks him to recite it to the tiger as well. Both the woman and the tiger receive divine bodies and are taken to Visnu's heaven
  • The mahatmya of the 13th adhyaya. An adulterous woman from the city of Harinam goes to the forest with her husband and is attacked by a tiger who only eats those who commit immoral acts. Reborn as a low-caste Chandala, the woman hears the 13th adhyaya of the Bhagvadgita from the holy man and asks him to recite it to the tiger as well. Both the woman and the tiger receive divine bodies and are taken to Visnu's heaven
  • A tiger is shot by an archer who appears between the trees as a fox walks by. Etching by J. Kirk after F. Barlow for a fable by Aesop.
  • A group of people gather and listen to a man sitting on a tiger skin singing religious songs (?) accompanied by four musicians. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Vyaghrapada, a maharishi with the head and torso of a man and legs and tail of a tiger, holding a necklace and a dish. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • The eye of a tiger in the shape of the map of Africa; advertising a reading of the play "Are there tigers in the Congo?" to commemorate World AIDS Day 1996. Colour lithograph by Petra Siegel for AIDS-Hilfe Leipzig, 1996.
  • Cape of Good Hope (South Africa): a selection of its indigenous animals, including the cape sheep, a wild goat, a wild ass, a wolf tiger, a zebra and a civet cat. Etching.
  • Devi Durga seated on a tiger facing a group of musicians and a dancing girl, who waves to a bird (?) in the sky carrying three people. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • An eight-armed goddess (Durga ?) standing on a tiger's head faces a group of demons as one of them is attacked by a blue-skinned goddess. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A prehistoric man defends his family from an attacking bear: the man's family huddle together in a cave, while mammoths, a tiger (?), a rhinocerus and cattle roam in the landscape beyond. Colour lithograph, 1840/1900?.
  • Lilium henryi Baker Liliaceae. Tiger Lily. Distribution: China. This commemorates Dr Augustine Henry (1857–1930) who collected plants in China and Taiwan while working for Britain’s Imperial Customs Service (Oakeley, 2012). Reported to cause renal failure in cats. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Lilium henryi Baker Liliaceae. Tiger Lily. Bulbous perennial. Distribution: China. This commemorates Dr Augustine Henry (1857–1930) who collected plants in China and Taiwan while working for Britain’s Imperial Customs Service (Oakeley, 2012). Reported to cause renal failure in cats. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Australian public health information poster on the tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria), advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish, produced by Brisbane City Council Department of Health after the 1926/1927 dengue epidemic. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • Above left, a tiger (?) restrained with a collar and a cloth over its head; left, a man on crutches steps over a sleeping man; centre, a man fans a stove on which a kettle is placed, watched by a man (right) kneeling by a cabinet (?); above right, an old woman sharpens (?) a knife. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.
  • Two tigers hunting for food. Coloured lithograph.
  • A holy man with two tigers. Watercolour drawing, 186- (?).
  • A zoo with giraffes, tigers, and a peacock. Coloured lithograph.
  • Two tigers and their cubs in a rocky landscape. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • Tower of London, Royal Menagery: a pair of tigers. Etching by W. Webb after H. Berthaud.
  • Above, a lion and a lioness; below, two tigers. Coloured lithograph by B. Hummel after Jemima Blackburn.
  • The martyrdom of Ignatius Bishop of Antioch: Ignatius is shown in an arena about to be devoured by lions, bears and tigers. Etching.
  • Gentiane sans tige : Gentianae acaulis / P.J. Redouté.