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  • Birds on a river bank: teal, duck, cormorant, bittern, owl, hawk and pheasant. Etching by J. Griffier, ca. 1655, after F. Barlow.
  • Two species of hawk's beard plant (Crepis species): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
  • Two flowering plants: sheep's-bit (Jasione montana) and jasmine (Jasminum officinale), with a hawk-moth caterpillar. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1811.
  • Birds on common land outside a village: hen, cock, hawk, jay, muscovy duck, raven, cuckoo and hoopoe. Etching by F. Place after F. Barlow.
  • Skeletons of eight species of bird including a pigeon hawk (merlin), a barn owl, a woodpecker, a maccaw and an ostrich (?) Line engraving, 1830/1870?.
  • A hawker selling wares from his tray. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • Street-hawkers and shoemakers
  • A hawk-headed man attacks a crane; a woman standing on a boat reads her letter and a bird-headed man behind her reads the same letter. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, 1860s.
  • A peasant is carrying the nest of a nightingale, which is is sitting on a bush and is about to be swooped by a hawk; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • Above, an insect, a musk rat, a siren (eel-shaped taile amphibian), and two hawk moths; below, a shark, a sponge, a vertebrate, an owl, a noddy (a tropical sea bird) and a stapelia. Engraving by Heath.
  • Crowds of people are thronging the streets of Westminster, with traders hawking their wares and others arguing, and so much noise and bustle the horse and carriage is nearly overturned. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • The sportsman's cyclopaedia; comprising a complete elucidation of the science and practice of hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, fishing, hawking, cockfighting, and other sports and pastimes of Great Britain, interspersed with entertaining and illustrative anecdotes / by T.B. Johnson.
  • The sportsman's cyclopaedia; comprising a complete elucidation of the science and practice of hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, fishing, hawking, cockfighting, and other sports and pastimes of Great Britain, interspersed with entertaining and illustrative anecdotes / by T.B. Johnson.
  • Entrance to the crater of the island of Amsterdam, Indian Ocean. Watercolour by E.H. Locker, 1804.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner, dressed as a retired Commodore. Mixed-method print by F. C. Lewis, 1826, after D. Wilkie, 1823.
  • Two Dutch topers clasping a beer jug and smoking. Mezzotint, c. 1831, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Mounted huntsmen and their dogs chasing a stag down a narrow path in a forest. Engraving after H. Bol.
  • Huntsmen opening gates to release dogs to chase after fowl. Etching by W. S. Howitt.
  • Fifteen professors at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Colour process print after C. Miksch, 1923.
  • Hahnemann Hospital and Homœopathic Dispensaries, Liverpool: a women's ward, decorated with flags possibly for the coronation of King George V. Photograph.
  • Asvacikitsa: folio 94 recto
  • An osprey (Pandion haliaetus). Coloured engraving by Whimper.
  • Group photograph of phisiologists at University College.
  • A man in Japan with two panniers filled with vegetables suspended from a yoke is accompanied by a woman carrying buckets. Colour process print.
  • A man in ragged clothes being bitten by a guard dog at the entrance to a town house; representing the sense of touch. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Jeffery Dunstan, a deformed eccentric. Engraving by J. Wilkes.
  • Professors considering whether a pair of conjoined twins should be separated after the death of one of them; representing a political discussion in Bradford about the separation of two factions (?). Coloured lithograph, 1868.
  • A gay man sitting in contemplation at a table with a cup and saucer and tea pot with a message about the scary aspects of sex; advertisement for Auckland's Burnett Centre by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph.
  • Shaman's rattle.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Owl