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  • A woman (Juno?) with a staff encircled by a snake and a peacock. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • A woman holding a sword and the scales of justice; representing jurisprudence. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • Witches meeting and performing spell. Etching by J.A.A. Pastelot.
  • A male dwarf sexually aroused by a sleeping female dwarf. Coloured etching by M. Engelbrecht, after 1715.
  • A goddess (Bellona?) surrounded by stags, rabbits or hares, demons and owls. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • The god Jupiter flanked by two scholars with winged heads and glasses. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • The goddess Diana (Artemis) holding a crescent moon and a spear. Engraving by E. Delaune, c. 1560.
  • A labourer asks a gentleman for his wages so that he may get drunk; both represented as dwarfs. Coloured etching after M. Engelbrecht, 1715.
  • A woman holding a compass and a square rule; representing architecture. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • Carved and painted wooden mask.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • Two monkeys sitting on a pineapple in a fruit bowl are attentively watching a wasp on the fruit stalk. Steel engraving by T. Landseer after E. H. Landseer.
  • An aging David strums his harp, reciting psalms. Engraving by E. van Panderen, c. 1620, after Giuseppe Cesari, il cavaliere d'Arpino.
  • Saint John the Evangelist watches an angel giving robes to martyrs. Woodcut.
  • A hunchback man (Mayeux) follows a young woman paying her unwanted attention. Coloured lithograph by de Delaunois after C.J. Traviès de Villers.
  • Consultation Figures, Southern Nigeria
  • An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).
  • An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).
  • A mother suffocates her baby; above, her vision of demons torturing her as punishment after her own death. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki Utagawa, 1868.
  • Surgeons' Hall, Old Bailey, London, the facade. Engraving, 1775.
  • An Iron 'scolds bridle' mask used to publicaly humiliate
  • An Iron 'scolds bridle' mask used to publicaly humiliate
  • An Iron 'scolds bridle' mask used to publicaly humiliate
  • "The monster" (Renwick Williams) attacking a woman with a knife and fork. Etching by J. Gillray, 1790.
  • William of Orange attacks Louis XIV and James II, who are riding on an ass; Father Petre, confessor to the queen of England, rides on a lobster with the infant Old Pretender; Cardinal Faustenburg falls off a tortoise. Mezzotint by P. Schenck, c. 1689.
  • A woman reaches down into a man's mouth to pull out another tooth; teeth lie scattered on the floor. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1839.
  • A woman reaches down into a man's mouth to pull out another tooth; teeth lie scattered on the floor. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1839.
  • The head of a man with goitre. Etching by Jusepe de Ribera, 1622.