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  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Crab-roe water
  • Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Crab claw' pox
  • Seventeen crustaceans, including the Commmon crab, the Cleanser crab and the Rough crab. Engraving by J. Record.
  • Above, a red mottled crab; below, a rough shelled crab. Etching.
  • A fish and a crab. Gouache painting.
  • A crustacean (crab). Etching by E. Bouchardon.
  • A crustacean (crab). Etching by E. Bouchardon.
  • Two fossils of a crab, showing top and underside. Watercolour.
  • A thistle flower and crab's eyes plant (Abrus species). Watercolour.
  • A crustacean (a crab). Coloured etching by R. P. Nodder.
  • A crustacean (a crab). Coloured etching by R. P. Nodder.
  • A violet crab: ventral and dorsal aspect. Coloured etching, ca. 1792.
  • Horseshoe crab: dorsal and ventral views. Watercolour by Zayhn al-Din, 1777/1783.
  • The soldier crab, in its shell and out of its shell;; the hermit crabin its shell and out of its shelll; bottom, the land crab. Coloured etching by J. Chapman, 1800.
  • Thirteen types of crab and two other marine crustaceans. Engraving by I. Taylor.
  • A red crab, representing the disease cancer. Colour lithograph by Kramer, ca. 1931.
  • Six fish, including a lobster, a crab and an eel, with shells. Etching.
  • A large crustacean (crab) next to an enlarged detail of its leg. Etching.
  • Signs of the zodiac: Cancer, the crab. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • Signs of the zodiac: Cancer, the crab. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • An unusual degree of tolerance ... Paynocil : the hermit crab and the sea anemone.
  • An unusual degree of tolerance ... Paynocil : the hermit crab and the sea anemone.
  • An unusual degree of tolerance ... Paynocil : the hermit crab and the sea anemone.
  • A crustacean (crab). Coloured stipple engraving by J. L. D. Coutant after F. N. Bevallet.
  • Above, three deer, a fish, a golden plover (wading bird), a hermit crab and two molluscs; below, three crabs and a fish. Etching by Heath.
  • Left, red and mauve stars and a red crab; right, ten red hands. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1976.
  • A large and a small crab are lying on a sea-shore. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by J. Ogilby.
  • [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].
  • Crab apples (Malus sylvestris) otherwise known as the European apple are a small variety of apple commonly used for the production of jam and wine. They have the reputation of being sour, and therefore do not tend to be eaten raw.