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  • Photograph of a stone carving showing legendary creature giving acupuncture.
  • The Sarabha: a mythical creature connected with Shiva. Gouache drawing.
  • A phone receiver as a creature with tails as antennae
  • A winged creature. Woodcut with colour by an Indian artist, 18--.
  • Witches putting a creature in a boiling cauldron. Lithograph after Biard.
  • Witches putting a creature in a boiling cauldron. Lithograph after Biard.
  • A creature with elaborate headdress. Gouache painting by an Indian artist (?).
  • Skeleton fragments of a prehistoric creature, with details showing the teeth. Etching, 18--?.
  • A feline creature is lying in front of a herd of cattle. Engraving.
  • A monstrous four-footed creature with a horse-like head and feline claws. Gouache.
  • Fossilized skeleton of a winged prehistoric creature, with details. Lithograph by J. Dinkel, 18--.
  • A creature with two heads, one of a wolf, the other human. Woodcut, c.1495.
  • A goat, a hare-like creature and a giraffe (?). Cut-out engravings pasted onto paper, 16--?.
  • Scorpion-like creature, incorporating human faces: charm image designed to protect against demons. Ink drawing, Tibet, 1850/1910?.
  • Victor Frankenstein observing the first stirrings of his creature. Engraving by W. Chevalier after Th. von Holst, 1831.
  • Victor Frankenstein observing the first stirrings of his creature. Engraving by W. Chevalier after Th. von Holst, 1831.
  • Victor Frankenstein observing the first stirrings of his creature. Engraving by W. Chevalier after Th. von Holst, 1831.
  • A model of a monstrous four-footed creature standing on a wagon with a howdah on its back. Gouache.
  • An amulet in the form of the Conaĉ or Murrain caterpillar used to ward off that particular creature. Coloured engraving.
  • The angel of death (a winged skeletal creature) drops some deadly substances into a river near a town; representing typhoid. Watercolour, 1912, after R. Cooper.
  • Joseph Grimaldi dressed as a Red Indian points to a pantomime creature in a scene from the pantomime, Red Dwarf. Etching by W. Heath, ca. 1811.
  • A good servant, represented as a hybrid creature combining a man, a pig, an ass and a deer, carrying cleaning implements and having a padlocked mouth. Engraving after J. Hoskins.
  • A good servant, represented as a hybrid creature combining a man, a pig, an ass and a deer, carrying cleaning implements and having a padlocked mouth. Engraving, 1749, after J. Hoskins.
  • To the admirers of the wonderful production of nature, to be seen alive at no.99 Holborn Hill : a most astonishing creature, called the Ethiopian Satyr, or Real wild-man of the woods.
  • A two-headed multi-legged creature above a a shattered pot with emanating rays with Hindi lettering relating to the shattering effects of AIDS; an advertisement by the Indian Committee of Youth Organizations. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A warrior wearing armour riding on a mythical creature in the shape of a horse, but formed by a variety of animals, people, birds and fish, holding a snake in each hand. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • An ill marsupial creature with a human head and long tail is seated in a chair being treated by two nurses; representing Daniel O'Connell's role in the County Carlow election of 1835. Coloured lithograph by R. Seymour, 1835.
  • A phone receiver [?] in the form of a creature with tails as antennae, and a body comprising an egg box opened to reveal 6 red eggs as the telephone digits [?]; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Raúl, ca. 1995.
  • A pot, a two-headed multi-legged creature and smaller symbols relating to ways in which AIDS is not transmitted including mosquitoes, hands shaking and a hospital bed; an advertisement issued by the Indian Committee of Youth Organizations. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A red sperm-like creature with a mohican haircut like protrusions typical of an HIV cell, with a row of men and women below and a message about AIDS; an advertisement by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.