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  • A microscopic animal (Aseroe rubra) and a spider, both with anatomical segments. Engraving by Sparrow, ca. 1792, after J. Piron.
  • Birds in a farmyard: magpie, sparrow, turkey, dove, cockerel and hen. Etching by J. Griffier after F. Barlow.
  • Dr Simon Sparrow (played by Dirk Bogarde) spanking a nurse in the film 'Doctor at large'. Colour lithograph, 1959.
  • Heads and feet of five types of falcon, a gos-hawk and a sparrow-hawk. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Various wild birds: partridge, pheasant, bustard, jay, woodpecker, magpie, snipe, sparrow, kingfisher, lapwing and woodcock. Etching by F. Place after F. Barlow.
  • Brain of a sparrow: two figures showing dissections of the brain. Watercolour and ink with pencil, possibly by D. Gascoigne Lillie, ca 1906.
  • Heads of seven birds, seen in profile: garden warbler, crossbill, lesser grey shrike, bullfinch, rock sparrow, dove and hooded crow. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • Brain of a sparrow with a tumour on the cerebellum: figures showing sections of the brain. Watercolour and ink with pencil sketches, possibly by D. Gascoigne Lillie, ca. 1905.
  • Gravel & stone : Mr. A. Sparrow, "I suffered from stone in the bladder. I tried DeWitt's Pills & passed a stone within 48 hours"... : insist on DeWitt's Kidney & Bladder Pills.
  • Gravel & stone : Mr. A. Sparrow, "I suffered from stone in the bladder. I tried DeWitt's Pills & passed a stone within 48 hours"... : insist on DeWitt's Kidney & Bladder Pills.
  • Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases
  • Watercolours of birds with fruit and flowering plants
  • Chinese/Japanese Pulse Image chart:
  • The connexion of life with respiration; or, an experimental inquiry into the effects of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals: with an account of the nature of the disease they produce; its distinction from death itself; and the most effectual means of cure / By Edmund Goodwyn.
  • Chinese Materia medica, C17: Birds, red-rumped swallow
  • Chinese 15th century Daoist image of internal topography
  • Chinese woodcut, dietary prohibitions during medication
  • Symbolic image of the heart: Chinese/Korean/Japanese
  • A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.