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  • A voluminous woman crossing a bush in a circle of foliage to get to a latrine; perhaps representing Garnerin's London balloon flights of the time. Etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
  • A wife dutifully sits by the bedside of her sick husband, watching over him. Mezzotint by J.C. Bromley, 1837, after E. Prentis.
  • The basket of a balloon with two men inside, and an engine with propellors. Wood engraving by E.A Tilly.
  • Men travelling in hot-air balloons by night. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A vulture flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A cockatoo flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A cockatoo flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A vulture flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A pigeon flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An osprey flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A stork walking and flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A cockatoo flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A pigeon flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A vulture flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Hot-air balloons with some extra equipment, and a winged horse with a rider. Engraving by Lodge.
  • A vulture flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A cockatoo flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Developing muscles and their innervation during metamorphosis
  • A bald eagle flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • The flying machine of Thomas Moy. Watercolour.
  • A bald eagle flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Daedalus attaching wings to the shoulders of his son Icarus. Stipple engraving by G.S. & E.G. Facius after C. Le Brun.
  • Blowfly wing showing the veins and bristles along the wing edge.
  • A red-tailed hawk flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A large vehicle (Phoebus's cart), on which is an electrical generator, being pulled along by winged horses with light bulbs on their heads: electricity sweeps all before it. Wood engraving by Swain, 1881, after J. Tenniel.
  • A flying contraption with large wings travels over the water. Wood engraving, 1843.
  • The Holy Family rest on the way to Egypt, eating from a miraculous tree. Engraving by J. Frey after C. Maratta.
  • Mosquito (Anopheles stephensi)
  • Raphael ascending from the house of Tobit. Etching by A. Walker, 1765, after Rembrandt.
  • A man is blown out of a window by an enema. Engraving.