Four studies of elephants, including a side-view of an elephant with a bandaged leg, with details of the head, breasts and genital area. Etching with stipple, by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1770-1779.

In a rural garden, two boys draw the figure of Nature represented as a woman with six breasts feeding two infants; around, examples of nature and education. Engraving by E.J.N. de Ghendt after C.P. Marillier, ca. 1788/1793.

A woman with five breasts on a pedestal, with attributes of nature and the elements, and with Apollo next to her seated on a cloud; men with various experimental instruments below them; representing natural philosophy. Engraving by A. Schoonebeek, 1692.

A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.

A woman with an open burgundy coloured shirt revealing her breasts stares wide-eyed at a diver holding onto a tray on which sit condoms and a clockwatch; a personified condom flies into the air off a skateboard while a telescope bearing an eye sticks out of the woman's top pocket; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Landsforeningen Ungdomsringen. Colour lithograph by Robert Lindvig, ca. 1995.

Breast cancer cells

Breast cancer cell

Glass breast reliever.-

Glass Breast Reliever

Anatomy of the breast

Chinese woodcut: Breast tumour

Healthy breast mammogram, artwork

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