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  • A camel whose body is composed of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • A camel whose body is composed of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • Nerves of the human body. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.
  • Nerves of the human body. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.
  • Bloodletting points and moxa points on the human body. Gouache painting, Tibet.
  • An oryx whose body is formed of three pairs of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • An oryx whose body is formed of three pairs of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • A horse whose body is formed of three pairs of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • A horse whose body is formed of three pairs of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • A native American medicine man with elaborate body painting performing a dance. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • Sharabha, with eight arms and the body of a winged lion. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Men washing the body of a recently deceased man in a Japanese bath-house. Watercolour painting, 18--.
  • The mummified body of the Emperor Charles V in the Escorial. Photograph of a painting by V. Palmaroli y González.
  • A blue Tibetan demon about to eat a human body stretched between his hands. Gouache painting by a Tibetan artist.
  • A woman wearing a pink saree with a snake wrapped around her body. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A rishi (Hindu teacher of mystical knowledge) with 'Vishnu' marks on his forehead and body. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Dhumavati, Hindu goddess of misfortune and unpleasantness, sitting in a chariot drawn by birds before a dead body. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A Sinhalese devil standing before a red horse with numerous snakes wrapped around his body and head. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • A yali (?), a mythical animal with the body of a peacock and the head of a dragon. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A pregnant woman, dissected, lateral view, with arms upraised, accompanied by separate sections of the body. Oil painting by Jacques-Fabien Gautier D'Agoty, 1764/1765.
  • A warrior galloping on a horse whose body is formed from a variety of animals, including birds and fish. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A woman sitting on a howdah being carried by a camel whose body is formed by a variety of animals and humans. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A Sinhalese four armed devil standing on top of a dead body sucking the blood through two long sticks with a peacock (?) perched on each shoulder. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • An Egyptian father holding the body of his dead young son in his lap while the mother of the boy buries her head in his lap. Etching by A. Mongin after a painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
  • Three Chinese men being subjected to torture and execution: left, the body of a recently decapitated man, centre, a man tied to a cross, right, an executioner prepars to decapitate a kneeling man. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • Compendium anatomicum, or A compendious treatise of anatomy adapted to the arts of painting and sculpture: in which the external muscles of the human body are represented as they appear when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface.
  • Compendium anatomicum, or A compendious treatise of anatomy adapted to the arts of painting and sculpture: in which the external muscles of the human body are represented as they appear when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface.
  • Compendium anatomicum, or A compendious treatise of anatomy adapted to the arts of painting and sculpture: in which the external muscles of the human body are represented as they appear when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface.