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  • Shaman's charm of bone carved in Totemic British Columbia. North West Coast of America. Designs representing the Octopus and anthropoozomorphic bird. Abalone inlays in eyes. Hole pierced at top for pendant.
  • A musician with a d'hole, a drum played at one end with a stick, and at the other with the hand, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • A cast of a rabbit with a hole in the middle and one ear missing appearing to float within a neutral background; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Liliana Porter, [1995].
  • Actors on stage performing an ice-skating scene fall through a hole in the ice and through the floor of the theatre into a casino on the storey below them. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1844.
  • Two surgeons treating the same patient, one is removing an arrow from his chest whilst the other is boring a hole into the patient's knee accompanied by two assistants and an onlooker. Pen drawing by ZS.
  • Two surgeons treating the same patient, one is removing an arrow from his chest whilst the other is boring a hole into the patient's knee accompanied by two assistants and an onlooker. Pen drawing by ZS.
  • The annunciation. Colour lithograph after Th. von Holst.
  • Surgical Holing of the Skull in the Neolithic age
  • Three sea monsters with devils horns and tails attempt to attack a submarine in the form of a condom in which a couple can be seen kissing through the port hole; an AIDS prevention advertisement for families. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • An ostrich sticks its head in a hole in the ground with the message in Basque, 'Don't hide your head' representing an advertisement for the Anti-AIDS Committee of Álava, Hies Kontrako Komite Hiritarra Comision Ciudadana Anti-SIDA. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • The contrite heart is tormented by Grief and Fear, but secured by Faith and Hope, while Love wounds it with one hand and soothes it with another; above, the Tetragrammaton, and below, the portrait of John Hayward in a roundel. Engraving by T. Cecill, 1636, after W. Hole.
  • Dr Richard Price kneeling on a large crown (with a demon on his back) to look through a peep-hole at a group of ruffians ransacking Marie Antoinette's bedroom; representing a speech by Price which allegedly advocated the French Revolution. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1790 (?).
  • Holed Stone, Clock-A-Torill. Tullon. Co. Carlon. Clothes are passed through the Apertures for cures.
  • The eye of a woman looking through a hole in an orange triangle decorated with winged cupids, flowers and fabrics as she holds up a world globe with 2 fingers; an advertisement for World AIDS Day 1 December 1992 by the AIDS Landsforeningen MOT, Pluss, Helsedirektoratet, Folkehelsa and Helseutvalget for Homofile. Colour lithograph.
  • 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 ragged man sitting huddled in a cube prison cell bearing the words 'SIDA' with a rat on the opposite side as a man beneath attempts to drill an escape hole in the floor; an advertisement for AIDS week in prisons from 11th to 13th December 1989 by the Comisiones Ciudadanas Anti-SIDA de Alava, Bizkaia, Guipúzcoa y Navarra and the Federación de Comités y Comisiones Ciudadanas Anti-SIDA del Estado Español. Colour lithograph by Hdez. Landazabal, 1989.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner recounting his exploits to a small boy, showing him a print called "The blowing up of the Orient": his mother and a print pedlar (?) look on. Engraving by T. Holles, 1845, after E. M. Ward.
  • Joh. Amos Comenii Orbis sensualium pictus: hoc est omnium principalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura. Joh. Amos Comenius's visible world: or, a nomenclature, and pictures, of all the chief things that are in the world, and of men's employments therein; in above 150 cuts / Written by the author in Latin and High Dutch ... Translated into English by Charles Hoole, M.A. For the use of young Latin scholars.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 24th Session Group portrait- including Sir Patrick Manson, G.D. Warren, T.R. Beale Browne, C.W. Daniels, R.W. Burkitt, J. F. Fitzmaurice, D. Ross Kilpatrick, J. C. C. Ford, A. F. Forster, Q. B. de Freitas, C.A. Godson, F. Grenier, S. Gurney, G. Hamilton, Prof. Holst, Capt. F.H.G. Hutchinson, K. McMurtrie, Miss G. Mackinnon, W.F. Todd, C. Frimodt Moller, Miss C. Wilson, Miss A. Madsen, Capt. J.N. Walker, J. Phillip Ziervogel.
  • Crisped rice breakfast cereal, SEM
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a female Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a male Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a female Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Thigh bones (femora) from Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Orchid aerial root (Phalaenopsis sp.), transverse section
  • Spore tubes on mushroom (unknown species)
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a female Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Crisped rice breakfast cereal, SEM