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  • Gastropod molluscs, including oysters, leeches, scolopendrids and whelks. Etching.
  • A girl is selling oysters to a customer in the street. Coloured lithograph.
  • A woman selling oysters at night. Wood engraving by H. Linton after H. Morland.
  • People are crowded around a table on which there is a large dish of oysters, a waterman with an oar looks on, and a boy is emptying more oysters out of a donkey's panniers. Engraving by William Greatbach after A. Fraser.
  • Fisher-folk and their methods of catching oysters. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Bought of Smith Bros : wholesale and retail dealers in fish, game, poultry, venison, &c., Wenham Lake ice, native oysters.
  • A lame man and a blind man go to court; the lawyer eats oysters and gives them the empty shells. Mezzotint, 1779.
  • A lame man and a blind man go to court; the lawyer eats oysters and gives them the empty shells. Mezzotint, 1779.
  • A lame man and a blind man go to court; the lawyer eats oysters and gives them the empty shells. Mezzotint, 1779.
  • A poor patient telling his doctor that he wants to stay alive because oysters will be cheap again. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
  • Hills & Laport : preservers of milton native oysters, milk, cream, bottled fruits, pickles &c. : no. 48, Eastcheap, London : Herring, anchovy & other pastes.
  • Hills & Laport : preservers of milton native oysters, milk, cream, bottled fruits, pickles &c. : no. 48, Eastcheap, London : Herring, anchovy & other pastes.
  • Navicular cells, oyster cells
  • A man buys an oyster from a woman behind the counter in a London oyster saloon. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • A pied oyster-catcher. Etching with engraving.
  • An oyster-catcher. Etching by W. Hayes, ca. 1780.
  • Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) growing on wood. Watercolour by G. Hardius, 1895.
  • A variety of shells, including porcellain shells, oyster shells and marina shells. Etching by I. Taylor.
  • Venus reclining upon a fish in the sea; Cupid flies above her holding an oyster shell and pearls. Engraving after P.C. Tremolière.
  • Villiers Street, Strand: the north-east part, including the shop of William Challice, chemist and druggist; Alsopp's dining and oyster rooms; and a cigar shop. Photograph, 189-.
  • Four specimens of tufa from the quarries near the Grotto of Posillipo. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
  • An inexperienced student doctor taking the pulse of a patient in his bed. Coloured etching by A.M. Mills, 1806.
  • While dining with two women, a man pleasures one of them with his foot. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1830.
  • A voluptuary surprised by death. Oil painting by Frans Francken II.
  • A voluptuary surprised by death. Oil painting by Frans Francken II.
  • A voluptuary surprised by death. Oil painting by Frans Francken II.
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Shellfish
  • Stony covering of the skin.
  • Seven pieces of tufa from the vicinity of Naples. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
  • An extraordinary freak of nature, or, a man encrusted with a barnacle or stone-like skin.