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  • A herd of elephants proceeding to a watering hole in the jungle. Colour lithograph by Emrik & Binger, ca. 1890.
  • Hippopotamuses with elephants in African jungle, representing the Behemoth of the Old Testament. Colour wood engraving attributed to Edmund Evans, 1867.
  • Vishnu and Lakshmi seated on a lotus being attended by Garuda, Hanuman and female attendants, and hailed by elephants. Gouache drawing.
  • A variety of animals copied from artworks in Rome, including elephants, lions and mythical creatures, set together in one landscape. Engraving.
  • A cross-breed between sheep and goat, two elephants and a rhinoceros are standing before a mountainous landscape. Etching with engraving.
  • Cave paintings; a group of Indo African men and women riding on elephants and horses. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Tiger hunting in India: men riding elephants shoot at a tiger that tries to escape by swimming across a river. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Four pink mythical beasts, composites of human bodies with wings, horses' heads and elephants' trunks. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, ca. 1750(?).
  • Five smiling elephants with condoms rolled on their trunks approving the use of condoms as a protection against AIDS. Colour lithograph after Studio Art, 1993.
  • Guinea: an animal identified as a porcupine and another animal resembling a pangolin, standing in a tropical forest with elephants grazing in the background. Etching.
  • Four studies of elephants, including a side-view of an elephant with a bandaged leg, with details of the head, breasts and genital area. Etching with stipple, by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1770-1779.
  • Above, fishermen hunting a spermwhale; middle, indigenous huntsmen hunting kangaroos; below, an island populated by petrels, sea elephants and sea lions. Wood engraving by N. Knilling after H. Leutemann.
  • Two elephants coupling with the message in German 'only with a condom' representing an advertisement for 10 years of AIDS of the AIDS-Hilfen in Austria. Colour lithograph by Buenos Dias.
  • The various ways of using horses, stags and elephants for the art of performing acrobatic feats shown in shown in seven sketches. Chalk lithograph by de Lemercier after V. J. Adam.
  • The various ways of using horses, stags and elephants for the art of performing acrobatic feats shown in shown in seven sketches. Chalk lithograph by de Lemercier after V. J. Adam.
  • Bacchus carried on a chariot pulled by leopards, accompanied by a drunken procession of bacchants and satyrs, with Silenus and two elephants. Etching by P. Aquila after P. Berrettini da Cortona, 16--.
  • The natural history of the pachydermes. Or, thick-skinned quadrupeds; consisting of the elephants, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, tapir, hog, &c / Illustrated by thirty-two plates, with memoir and portrait of Sir Hans Sloane.
  • Asian Elephant
  • Elephant Man.
  • MONSTROSITY:Elephant Man
  • Elephant training ground, Ayuthia, Siam
  • Reconstructed CT scan of elephant foot
  • Reconstructed CT scan of elephant foot
  • Photograph, Death of the 'Elephant Man'
  • 3D reconstructed elephant hind limbs
  • 3D reconstructed elephant hind limbs
  • 3D reconstructed elephant hind limbs
  • 3D reconstructed elephant hind limbs
  • An elephant. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • Tooth of an Asian elephant. Lithograph, 1850/1900?.