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  • Nerves of the human body. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.
  • A skeleton. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist.
  • Signs of the zodiac: Sagittarius, the archer. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • Signs of the zodiac: Aries, the ram. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • Signs of the zodiac: Taurus, the bull. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • A skeleton. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist.
  • Signs of the zodiac: Pisces, the fish. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • Signs of the zodiac: Aries, the ram. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • Nerves of the human body. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.
  • The viscera and the venous system. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist.
  • Viscera of a human figure crouching over a hen (?). Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist.
  • Signs of the zodiac: Taurus, the bull. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • Signs of the zodiac: Gemini, twins. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • The viscera with a foetus in utero. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist.
  • Signs of the zodiac: Libra, the scales. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • Concentric coloured circles. Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
  • Nerves of the human body. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist.
  • Men climbing a large cliff to reach the fortress on top. Watercolour by an Iranian painter (?).
  • Persian men doing physical exercises. Engraving by C.F. Fritschius.
  • The torture of rebels in Persia. Line engraving with etching, 17--.
  • Seven prisoners in Persia sitting on the ground bound together by chains, supervised by three armed guards standing behind. Process print.
  • A Persian nobleman/warrior in traditional dress, riding a horse, with two men, also on horse-back, following behind. Lithograph after A.O. Orlovski, ca. 1821.
  • Five prisoners in Persia walking around a yard bound together by chains, a guard with a sword walks nearby. Process print by C. Hentschel after F. Dadd.
  • Two people in Persia described as black slaves: a man wearing a turban with a staff in his hand, and a woman carrying a tea tray with a jug and cups. Engraving after C. de Bruyn.
  • A Zoroastrian baptism in Persia. Etching after B. Picart.
  • Fourteen male prisoners in Persia sitting on the ground in a group bound together at the neck by chains, with an armed guard. Wood engraving, 1873, after Evelyn H. Ellis.
  • Persia: the bodies of three dead robbers hanging in a public hall; men standing below them. Process print after C.J. Staniland, 1896.
  • Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V, quibus continentur variae relationes, observationes et descriptiones rerum Persicarum et ulterioris Asiae, multâ attentione / in peregrinationibus per universum Orientem, collectae. Ab auctore Engelberto Kaempfero, D.
  • Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V, quibus continentur variae relationes, observationes et descriptiones rerum Persicarum et ulterioris Asiae, multâ attentione / in peregrinationibus per universum Orientem, collectae. Ab auctore Engelberto Kaempfero, D.
  • Children being bathed at a bath-house in a foundling hospital in Moscow. Engraving by C. Warren, c. 1810, after B. Picart.