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  • Gourds containing curare.
  • Still life of fruits, including gourds, cucumbers, figs and grapes. Engraving by J-B Haussard after Boisseau.
  • An Indian perfume merchant; a man carrying gourds filled with perfume. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A vine bearing four pear-shaped gourds and a date palm; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching.
  • Wax gourd (Benincasa hispida): one box shaped fruit. Watercolour.
  • Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Gourd granule' pox
  • A beggar woman with a gourd. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1629.
  • A beggar woman with a gourd. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1629.
  • Calabash or bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria): fruiting plant growing under a palm. Engraving.
  • Dishcloth gourd (Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.): flowering stem with separate sectioned fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Dishcloth gourd (Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.): whole and sectioned fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Gherkin (Cucumis anguria L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • Two actors, playing as Matsushita Kahiji and Konoshita Tokichi, striking a pose on stage. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1856.
  • Two pictures: two women pounding grain and African people brewing pombe. Lithograph with tint plate.
  • African people brewing pombe beside a pile of sorghum grain. Wood engraving by J. B. Zwecker.
  • Three plants, including a calabash-tree (Crescentia cujete) with starfish and sea urchins in an exotic tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.
  • Shiva and Parvati playing Rudra veenas. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Bronze figure of Shen Nung, Japanese god of medicine.
  • Formosa (Taiwan). Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Formosa (Taiwan). Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Formosa (Taiwan). Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • A canoe with men from the Hawaiian Islands wearing masks, encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by C. Grignion, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • A man from the Hawaiian Islands wearing a mask; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by T. Cook after J. Webber, 1780/1785.
  • Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
  • M0006350: Enema appliances: Congo
  • Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Li T'ieh Kuai walking with the aid of a crutch. Collage of padded silk fabrics with watercolour on paper, 18--?.