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  • M0001321: Portrait of Joseph Black (1728-1799), Scottish physicist and chemist. Original stipple engraving by J. (James) Posselwhite (1798-1884)
  • A black swan in Cape Van Diemen. Engraving by J.L. Perée, ca. 1798, after J. Piron.
  • Grape vine (Vitis vinifera L.) with black grapes. Coloured lithograph after J. Polydore.
  • Coloured human silhouettes on a black ground. Colour lithograph after J. Stiegele, ca. 1995.
  • A budgerigar with black markings in Cape Van Diemen. Engraving by J.L. Perée, ca. 1798, after J.B. Audibert.
  • A black slave in Surinam is stretched on a rack as another black man breaks his bones with a wooden stick. Engraving, 1793, after J.G. Stedman.
  • A male and female black grouse. Etching by J. Scott, ca. 1801, after S. Elmer.
  • A trumpeter (large black South American cranelike bird of the genus Psophia). Etching by J. Le Keux.
  • A black man buying some of J. Morison's pills, hoping they will make him white. Coloured lithograph.
  • A brown and black farmyard cockerel. Coloured lithograph by P W M Trap after J G Keulemans.
  • A black and white farmyard cockerel. Coloured lithograph by P W M Trap after J G Keulemans.
  • A black man buying some of J. Morison's pills, hoping they will make him white. Coloured lithograph.
  • An albino woman of African descent, with white instead of black skin. Engraving by Schmitz after J. de Sève.
  • The larva of a black fly (Simulium species). Photograph of a drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1919.
  • The pupa of a black fly (Simulium species). Photograph of a drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1919.
  • Dissection of the trunk of a seated black man, showing major blood-vessels. Coloured lithograph by J. Maclise, 1851.
  • An albino woman of African descent, with white instead of black skin. Engraving by C. Guttenberg after J. de Sève, 1777.
  • French sailors feeding manacled black slaves in San Domingo to ravenous blood-hounds. Engraving by J. Barlow, 1805, after M. Rainsford.
  • Two black silhouette heads touch but are divided by a red question mark; from afar, the image resembles a black suit on a red hanger; representing uncertainty about AIDS. Colour silk screen print after J.-C. Blais, 1993.
  • Heads of five birds, including a grey vulture, white-headed osprey, falcon, black woodpecker and a cuckoo. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • False acacia or black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.): branch with large pod. Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
  • French sailors throwing manacled black soldiers off a ship into the a sea populated by large carnivorous animals. Engraving by J. Barlow after M. Rainsford.
  • Surinam: white men with rifles are holding them high as they make their way through a swamp after a black man. Engraving after J.G. Stedman.
  • A white man in Brazil whipping a black man who has been tied up and lies before him on the ground. Chalk lithograph after J.B. Debret.
  • Two heads of men (one white, one black African), showing dissection of muscles and blood-vessels of the subclavian region of the chest. Coloured lithograph by J. Maclise, 1851.
  • A black family sit outside a house listening to a man play on a banjo, attended by a white boy holding a hoop. Wood engraving by J.W.E.
  • A black woman slave in Surinam holding a weight on her head which is attached by a chain to her ankle. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1795, after J.G. Stedman.
  • A black man in Surinam hanged at the waist; human bones lie on the ground and skulls are impaled on sticks. Engraving by W. Blake, 1792, after J.G. Stedman.
  • A black woman in Surinam tied to a tree by her wrists as men walk towards her with whips in their hands. Engraving by W. Blake after J.G. Stedman.
  • Louise Chevalier in the role of Virginie is feeding water from her hands into the mouth of a black man in a loin-cloth. Mezzotint by J. Ward, 1799, after C. Henard.