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  • North America: a group of beavers building a dam. Coloured lithograph.
  • Two beavers felling trees by gnawing at the trunks. Wood engraving, ca 1862.
  • Canada: a forest near a river with racoons, beavers, turkeys, elks and pigeons. Coloured lithograph.
  • Zoological Society of London: two beavers outside their artificial burrows in the zoo. Etching by W. Panormo after W. Berthoud.
  • A beaver sitting on the shore of a lake. Etching.
  • Above, an otter eating a fish; below, a beaver. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • Above, a beaver; below, an otter. Coloured lithograph by B. Hummel after Jemima Blackburn.
  • Skull, jaw-bones and paws of a gopher and a beaver: fourteen figures. Etching, 1840/1870?.
  • Head of a lynx and two figures of the head of a beaver. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • A beaver sitting on a lattice work of branches on the river shores. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • Beaver skull, with illustrations showing the fore foot, hind foot, and the tail. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • A beaver hiding from hunters and biting off its own testicles to leave them as their catch. Etching by W.S. Howitt.
  • A fox, a beaver and a mole looking at a hare which has grown antlers. Etching by A. Collaert after T. Galle.
  • A health information sheet on how to get an AIDS test featuring an illustration of a man having a blood test by Beaver Masigo. Colour lithograph, ca. 1992.
  • Above, a table with various animal tracks, including those of chamois, badger, fox, otter, beaver and wild cat, below, a richly decorated arabesque with an inscription. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A beaver, tracked down by the dogs on the river banks, is trying to fight them of by putting its sharp claws around the head of one dog while exposing its teeth to the other dogs. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • Above, a sprig of a clove tree, a beetle, two sprigs of a cassia tree bearing leaves from which senna is extracted, a beaver and three different cavies (small rodents); below, two beetles and a mocking creeper. Etching by Heath.
  • Thirteen different mammals ranging from apes, rodents and marsupials to a whale. Coloured lithograph.
  • The British Museum: the Coral Room, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1847.
  • Ceremonial head-dress, Tshinshian
  • The boy St Giles, arrested for stealing a hat belonging to the boy St James, is arraigned before the night-constable at Covent Garden watch-house. Etching after John Leech, 1845.
  • Fort Simpson, British Columbia. Oil painting by Frederick Alexkcee (Alexcee), 1902.
  • Fort Simpson, British Columbia. Oil painting by Frederick Alexkcee (Alexcee), 1902.
  • Fort Simpson, British Columbia. Oil painting by Frederick Alexkcee (Alexcee), 1902.
  • Fort Simpson, British Columbia. Oil painting by Frederick Alexkcee (Alexcee), 1902.
  • The game of goose applied to the countries of the world. Engraving by Antoine de Fer after Louis Richer.
  • The game of goose applied to the countries of the world. Engraving by Antoine de Fer after Louis Richer.
  • The game of goose applied to the countries of the world. Engraving by Antoine de Fer after Louis Richer.