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  • Species of locusts or crickets. Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1806.
  • Species of locusts or crickets. Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1806.
  • The plague of locusts. Engraving by J.F. Castro after A. Martinez.
  • A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.
  • Boer War: soldiers in camp driving off a swarm of locusts with anything to hand. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. Paget.
  • Martyrdom of Christian saints by being shut up to be bitten by mice or rats, crowded together like locusts, or trampled by horses. Woodcut.
  • A locust. Wood engraving.
  • Five insects of the Orthoptera order, including a grasshopper, locust and mantid. Coloured engraving by J. O. W.
  • False acacia or black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.): branch with large pod. Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
  • Insects and reptiles from different parts of the world, including a hooded serpent, a locust and an elephant beetle. Etching by W. Grainger.
  • Wattle (Acacia sp.) flowering stem with a blue locust and a faggot caterpillar emerging from its nest. Coloured aquatint by W. Hooker after J. Forbes, 1779.
  • Above, a dromedary is kneeling before a god in the clouds, out of which Mercury is descending, below, a dromedary is carrying a load with a locust perched on top; illustration for a fable. Etching.
  • John baptises Christ in the Jordan. Engraving by P. Galle, 1564, after M. van Heemskerck.
  • Saint John the Baptist in the wilderness, holding a lamb and a cross. Engraving by M. van Lochom.
  • Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases
  • Scenes from the life of Moses before the Exodus. Etching, 1799.
  • A variety of insects including the dragon fly, the lantern fly, the cricket and the caterpillar. Etching by I. Taylor.
  • Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Genji and a boy attendant outside a house on a moonlit night. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1857.
  • A boy, dressed as Saint John the Baptist for a procession in Venice. Wood engraving by W. Hollidge after F.W.W. Topham, 1870.