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  • Dog with deformed claws. Lithograph.
  • Pubic louse, close-up of claws, SEM
  • A fibroma between hind claws of a sheep
  • A fibroma between hind claws of a sheep
  • Amuletic necklace, Bear claws and red trade beads.
  • Pubic louse, 2nd & 3rd claws, SEM.
  • Birds' claws: eight figures, including the claws of a golden eagle, a barn owl, a woodpecker, a parrot, a pigeon, a lark, a crow, and a cockerel. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • A monstrous four-footed creature with a horse-like head and feline claws. Gouache.
  • Top, two vultures; bottom, a vulture holding a snake in its claws. Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1828.
  • [Undated handbill (Easter week, 1898?) advertising an exhibition of Madame Babault, the real Lobster-Clawed Lady, with hand and feet deformities approximating lobster / crab claws].
  • [Undated handbill (Easter week, 1898?) advertising an exhibition of Madame Babault, the real Lobster-Clawed Lady, with hand and feet deformities approximating lobster / crab claws].
  • A parrot on a stand is holding a dog's collar with its claws; two small terriers look up hoping the parrot will release it. Mezzotint by A. Lucas after J. Bateman, 18--.
  • Two children are running towards a sheep with a crow on its back while an eagle bears a lamb in its claws in the sky above; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching.
  • Eve combined with a mermaid; a griffon combined with an eagle holding an infant between its claws; a purse combined with a heart; a skeleton holding an hourglass and an arrow. Engraving, ca. 1757.
  • A nurse standing in front of the Red Cross stabs a dragon that holds the globe in its claws; representing assistance to tuberculous people from the Italian Red Cross. Colour lithograph by B. Cascella.
  • Two children are running towards a sheep with a crow on its back while an eagle in the sky above bears a lamb in its claws. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.
  • 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.
  • A sheep with a corkscrew claw (outside claw).
  • HARPAGOPHYTUM PROCUMBENS (DEVILS CLAW)
  • Keratin of a dog claw
  • Keratin of a dog claw
  • Keratin of a dog claw
  • Section of a dog claw showing structure
  • Milking machine: large & small claw-pieces
  • Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Crab claw' pox
  • Public louse, 1st claw of 2nd leg, SEM.
  • [Leaflet advertising devil's claw as a herbal cleanser, detoxifier and for rheumatic conditions].
  • [Leaflet advertising devil's claw as a herbal cleanser, detoxifier and for rheumatic conditions].
  • A giant claw pierces the breast of a sleeping naked woman, another naked woman swoops down and stabs the claw with a knife; representing the surgical treatment of breast cancer. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • A black flying opossum and a skeletal detail of its claw. Etching by P. Mazell.