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  • Claude Nicolas Le Cat. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu after himself after Thomiers.
  • A slave is flogged with a cat-o'-nine-tails while a woman is kneeling and pleading for mercy nearby. Wood engraving.
  • The head of an angry red cat (?), with mauve Y-shapes and red crosses; representing pain. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • The head of an angry red cat (?), with mauve Y-shapes and red crosses; representing pain. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • Claude Nicolas Le Cat. Line engraving by B. L. Henriquèz, 1771, after J. Restout.
  • Claude Nicolas Le Cat. Line engraving by B. L. Henriquèz, 1771, after J. Restout.
  • Claude Nicolas Le Cat. Line engraving by B. L. Henriquèz, 1771, after J. Restout.
  • A cat standing on its hind legs, formed by patterns supposed to be in the "Early Greek" style. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939.
  • A cat hissing at a barking dog over a bowl of milk in a barn. Etching by J. R. Scott after A. Cooper.
  • A pole cat and a weasel are hunted and killed in different ways with a squirrel watching on. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • Rabies: a cat and a dog, at risk of bringing rabies into the British Isles from Spain or Latin America. Colour lithograph, 1976.
  • Two anatomists dissecting a corpse, surrounded by birds, a cat, a dog and mice. Etching by S. Ireland after J. H. Mortimer, 17--.
  • A barber shaving a friar; in the left-hand background a monkey and a cat are fighting and squealing. Lithograph by J. Baker.
  • Diminutive humans attack a giant cat; a ghost-like figure sits in a flaming black boat in the top left. Colour woodcut, 1883.
  • Members of the British Association playing cat's cradle on board a ship on its way to South Africa. Photograph by J.T. Bottomley, 1905.
  • A cat is caught and strangulated by a rope in a haybarn with a fox looking on. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.
  • Two dogs, a cat and a monkey are combining their efforts to cajole a parrot out of its cage. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A fox is pursued by two dogs while a cat escapes by climbing a tree. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.
  • A boy sits on the library floor with a book on his knees and a cat scrambles over the books on the shelf. Chromoithograph.
  • A funeral procession of elderly women with cats in their arms, following the coffin of a dead cat, in a churchyard. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Pettit after E.G. Byron, 1789.
  • Cat thyme (Teucrium marum L.): flowering stem with separate flower. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
  • The Prince Regent, his head irradiated, opens a bag containing cats; a cat with the head of Lord Eldon leaps on to a rat with the head of Lord Grey. Aquatint, 1811.
  • A cat is carrying a cock in its mouth in front of a moated country house. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a nurse's sitting room (?), or end of ward, with seated nurse, cat in lap, talking to seated man. Photograph.
  • A woman knitting while a cat plays with the wool in the woman's ward, Trinity Hospital, Edinburgh. Line engraving by T. Stewart after D. Wilson.
  • An old woman sits spinning by candelelight as a boy and a cat warm themselves by the fire. Engraving by J. Parker after R. Corbould.
  • A boy so absorbed in reading the magazine Furendo that he does not notice a cat eating his plate of fish. Colour process print, 1909.
  • Two figures, Mr Punch and his cat, with springs on their feet, standing in a museum of modern inventions. Wood engraving after L. Sambourne, 1878.
  • Thomas Dromgoole speaking at a meeting of the Catholic Board in Dublin; represented as Doctor Drum "letting the cat out of the bag". Coloured etching, 1813.
  • Title page and front of C.N. Le Cat, Traite de la couleur de la peau humaine, 1765