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  • Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium: in qua, praeter vermes et erucas Surinamenses, earumque ... metamorphosin, plantae, flores et fructus, quibus vescuntur, et in quibus fuerunt inventae, exhibentur. His adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, araneae, aliaque ... istius regionis animalcula ... Accedit appendix transformationum piscium in ranas, et ranarum in pisces. Dissertation sur la génération et les transformations des insectes de Surinam. Dans laquelle on traite des vers et des chenilles de Surinam, des plantes, fleurs, & fruits dont ils vivent & dans lesquels on les a trouvez. On y parle aussi des crapaux, lezards, serpens, aragnées & autres petits animaux du même païs, peints sur les lieux d'après nature, & depuis gravez avec beaucoup de soin.On y a joint un traité des changemens des poissons en grenouilles & des grenouilles en poissons / [Maria Sibylla Merian].
  • Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium: in qua, praeter vermes et erucas Surinamenses, earumque ... metamorphosin, plantae, flores et fructus, quibus vescuntur, et in quibus fuerunt inventae, exhibentur. His adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, araneae, aliaque ... istius regionis animalcula ... Accedit appendix transformationum piscium in ranas, et ranarum in pisces. Dissertation sur la génération et les transformations des insectes de Surinam. Dans laquelle on traite des vers et des chenilles de Surinam, des plantes, fleurs, & fruits dont ils vivent & dans lesquels on les a trouvez. On y parle aussi des crapaux, lezards, serpens, aragnées & autres petits animaux du même païs, peints sur les lieux d'après nature, & depuis gravez avec beaucoup de soin.On y a joint un traité des changemens des poissons en grenouilles & des grenouilles en poissons / [Maria Sibylla Merian].
  • Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium: in qua, praeter vermes et erucas Surinamenses, earumque ... metamorphosin, plantae, flores et fructus, quibus vescuntur, et in quibus fuerunt inventae, exhibentur. His adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, araneae, aliaque ... istius regionis animalcula ... Accedit appendix transformationum piscium in ranas, et ranarum in pisces. Dissertation sur la génération et les transformations des insectes de Surinam. Dans laquelle on traite des vers et des chenilles de Surinam, des plantes, fleurs, & fruits dont ils vivent & dans lesquels on les a trouvez. On y parle aussi des crapaux, lezards, serpens, aragnées & autres petits animaux du même païs, peints sur les lieux d'après nature, & depuis gravez avec beaucoup de soin.On y a joint un traité des changemens des poissons en grenouilles & des grenouilles en poissons / [Maria Sibylla Merian].
  • Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium: in qua, praeter vermes et erucas Surinamenses, earumque ... metamorphosin, plantae, flores et fructus, quibus vescuntur, et in quibus fuerunt inventae, exhibentur. His adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, araneae, aliaque ... istius regionis animalcula ... Accedit appendix transformationum piscium in ranas, et ranarum in pisces. Dissertation sur la génération et les transformations des insectes de Surinam. Dans laquelle on traite des vers et des chenilles de Surinam, des plantes, fleurs, & fruits dont ils vivent & dans lesquels on les a trouvez. On y parle aussi des crapaux, lezards, serpens, aragnées & autres petits animaux du même païs, peints sur les lieux d'après nature, & depuis gravez avec beaucoup de soin.On y a joint un traité des changemens des poissons en grenouilles & des grenouilles en poissons / [Maria Sibylla Merian].
  • A man drinks from a glass as a woman holds a jug and raises her hand in the air. Engraving after M. van Cleve.
  • Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases
  • Hupeh province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • A parrot perched on a branch is surrounded by a large number of birds; illustration of a fable by J. Ogilby. Etching.
  • Germinating seeds and seedlings of broad bean and goosegrass. Coloured pencil drawing by H. Cowell.
  • James Morison promoting his alternative medicines; satirised by five vignettes of a fox among geese. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
  • James Morison promoting his alternative medicines; satirised by five vignettes of a fox among geese. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
  • In the foreground a fox with a flaming torch in its mouth is climbing up a tree trying to reach an eagle's nest; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching.
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  • Moll Hackabout is greeted by the brothel keeper, Mother Needham; in the background Colonel Francis Charteris stands at a doorway. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1732.
  • Old Calabar dog biscuits : allegro : à tout vitesse.
  • Old Calabar dog biscuits : allegro : à tout vitesse.
  • Eighteen eggs from different animals ranging from an ostrich to a dog-fish. Wood engraving by J. Quartley, ca. 1850.
  • The martyrdom of Scottish people who ignored a religious observance: four men are hanging together on a scaffold while a group of people is trying to force a naked woman with an infant to climb into a sack for the purpose of being thrown into the river and drowned. Etching after D. Dodd.
  • Bethlem Hospital, London: the incurables being inspected by a member of the medical staff, with the patients represented by political figures. Drawing by Thomas Rowlandson, 1789.
  • The assumption of Queen Victoria. Photogravure, 1902, after A. Drummond, 1901.
  • Six flowering plants, including bedstraw (Galium tricorne), goosegrass (Galium aparine) and woodruff (Galium odoratum). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • A triumphant candidate, borne aloft by his supporters, is about to topple from his chair due to an obstructing donkey, the disturbance of a fight and a frightened family of swine dashing underneath. Engraving by William Hogarth and François Antoine Aviline, 1758.
  • William Allen, portrayed as an alchemist with several furnaces, the one which he stokes is labelled "Matter o'money". Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1827.
  • William Allen, portrayed as an alchemist with several furnaces, the one which he stokes is labelled "Matter o'money". Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1827.
  • First tour in Great Britain : during the fair, £1,000 challenge to the world! to produce the equal of Lallo [sic], the greatest living wonder in the world : a native of Lucknow, central India : Lalloo... simply a boy and girl joined together... / James Norman and M.D. Francis, proprietors.
  • First tour in Great Britain : during the fair, £1,000 challenge to the world! to produce the equal of Lallo [sic], the greatest living wonder in the world : a native of Lucknow, central India : Lalloo... simply a boy and girl joined together... / James Norman and M.D. Francis, proprietors.
  • Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.
  • Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.
  • Aldermen of the City of London Corporation represented as Chinese and as monsters in procession to Westminster to protest against the Treaty of Paris, 1763. Etching after J.H. O'Neale, 1763.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Swan