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  • Title page and front of C.N. Le Cat, Traite de la couleur de la peau humaine, 1765
  • Cat mesentery, human skin and two human foetal eyes, seen through a microscope. Four photographs by A. Pringle.
  • An African man is punished by Boers: he is tied by his wrists and ankles to a ladder and flogged with a cat-o'nine-tails. Line block.
  • A Sinhalese black devil called Ayimane holding a cockerel in one hand and resting a leg on a giant blue cat. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • A cat and a rat sharing a cup of sake: a shamisen and a music book lie between them, indicating a convivial gathering. Colour woodcut by Gyokushō, 189-.
  • John Anderson and his wife seated by a fire in a modest house; a cat sleeping on a stool in front of the chimney. Woodcut after R. Burns, 18--.
  • John Anderson and his wife seated by a fire in a modest house; a cat sleeping on a stool in front of the chimney. Woodcut after R. Burns, 18--.
  • A monkey forcing a cat to retrieve hot chestnuts, so burning its paws on the stove; two kittens in the background. Engraving by R. Graves after E. Landseer, ca. 1850.
  • A man comes to a shop to sell a fish to a woman who sells poultry, fish and vegetables, watched by a cat. Engraving by J. Burnet after W. Mieris.
  • Chinese dog and cat restaurant: diners are shown eating at a table on the first floor, while food is seen being prepared in the kitchen below. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.
  • Two girls sit on a step, one is feeding her food to a cockerel and a cat takes advantage of the food spilling out of the other girl's dish. Lithograph.
  • As a mouse runs up a young woman's leg, young man lifts her skirt and the cat catches it. Engraving by V. Pillement and C. Niquet after E. Le Bel.
  • Above, a table with various animal tracks, including those of chamois, badger, fox, otter, beaver and wild cat, below, a richly decorated arabesque with an inscription. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A foppish doctor paying a house call on a young lady with her mother and baby; represented as a mule, a cat, a dog and a kitten respectively. Coloured etching, 1827.
  • Above, a leopard and a red-eared lynx; middle, a serval and a collared car (felis armillata); bottom, a black leopard and a nepaul cat. Coloured etching by Turvey and S. Milne.
  • 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.
  • A sailor is stripped to the waist and tied to a grid by his wrists while being flogged with a cat-o'-nine-tails with the captain looking on. Pen and ink drawing.
  • The evolution of a cat into an old woman, and her stool into a dog into a man in a cage into her skirt; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • Newgate Prison, London: a man's shirt is being laid over his shoulders by a prison warder after he has been flogged by a man with a cat o'nine tails. Wood engraving, 1872.
  • A tabby cat stands on its back paws wearing numerous condoms on its head, paws and tail representing an advertisement for safe sex by Verkerke C&L GMBH. Colour lithograph by Alex, 1995.
  • (Left) an old woman sitting on a stool with a cat and warming her hands at a brazier; (right) an old man playing the hurdy-gurdy. Etching by E. Russell after J. Callot.
  • A cat with the head of Sir Robert Peel gazes at a cage trap containing the Sheriff of Middlesex, Evans, held by Lord John Russell. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1840.
  • A convalescing woman trying in vain to rouse her slumbering hired nurse: the cat scavenges her food and the candle sets light to the carpet. Coloured etching by N. Heideloff, 1807, after T. Rowlandson.
  • Two women sit at a table drinking tea and gossiping, so taken up with what they are saying that the tea is accidently poured on the cat. Aquatint by G. Hunt after M. Egerton.
  • Seven figures illustrating different types of anatomical specimen jars and their lids and methods of preservation used by Réaumur, Le Cat, and others. Engraving, 1749.
  • A man is woken by the ghost of a friend calling to him: he crosses his bedroom in a nightshirt and holding a candle, and is annoyed to find it is a cat. Engraving, 1801.
  • A sailor is stripped to the waist, tied to a ladder and being flogged with a cat-o'-nine-tails while four sailors are waiting for their turn to flog him. Wood engraving by W.R.
  • A surgeon-apothecary shouts back from an open window at a request for a night-visit to a patient, sending pot plants and a cat flying. Coloured aquatint by H. Pyall after M Egerton (Ego), 1827.
  • Human figures with the faces of animals are crowded in a room and one figure standing by the open door is addressing the cat woman who is holding a glass. Engraving by Toms after E. Heemskerck.
  • A young lady is sitting on a seat with a black cat on her lap as a man writes on a piece of paper, he then takes her hand and bows. Process print after Albert Guillaume.