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  • Vittorio Putti. Photograph.
  • Vittorio Putti. Photograph, 1928 (?).
  • Historic artificial limbs / by Vittorio Putti.
  • Vesalius, initial T: putti killing dog
  • Two putti. Crayon-manner print by F. Rosaspina, 1800, after Francisco Vieira after A. Allegri, il Correggio.
  • Putti study the plants in a botanical garden; representing botany. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • The Virgin Mary feeding Christ as a baby, angels and putti flutter around preparing and serving dishes. Etching.
  • The Virgin Mary feeding Christ as a baby, angels and putti flutter around preparing and serving dishes. Etching.
  • Two putti supporting a roundel with the portrait of John Bulwer; above, coat of arms. Etching, ca. 1650.
  • Decorated initial T with putti stringing a dog over the bar of the letter. Woodcut and letterpress, 1543.
  • Science: putti undertaking various experiments in an open temple or rotunda, presided over by Scientia. Engraving, c.1750.
  • Eros, holding a bow and arrow, is being crowned with laurel by his mother Aphrodite; two putti are cutting branches of laurel and three putti are playing with arrows in the foreground; rococo frame at the bottom of the image. Ink drawing, ca. 1740.
  • British Orthopaedic Association members view an operation performed by Vittorio Putti and staff at the Rizzoli Institute, Bologna. Photograph, 1924.
  • Naked putti at work in a garden, representing the element earth. Etching by C. Duflos, ca 1750, after F. Boucher.
  • Time pushes back a curtain to reveal Fame greeting a woman representing Anatomy; below, putti study anatomy. Line engraving, 1698.
  • Geography: a man in his study using dividers to measure a globe, two putti fly up with a [blank] banderole. Etching.
  • Athena, Hermes and Apollo; putti holding various objects; calligraphic lettering. Engraving by Johann Ulrich Krauss after G. de Lairesse, ca. 1 (?).
  • The tomb of J.C.W. Moehsen, decorated with putti and Hygieia holding a snake and a bowl. Etching by B. Rode, 1796.
  • Aesculapius, representing medicine, receives homage from putti who bring him symbols of botany, natural history, chemistry and anatomy. Engraving by A. Nunzer, 1748.
  • Putti plan war manoeuvres on maps with the help of geometrical diagrams; representing geometry and military science. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • King Henry VII, holding a sceptre and an orb; below, Elizabeth of York and two putti holding roses. Engraving by J. Hulett, ca. 1750.
  • The library of Pierre Séguier: painting and music support putti trumpeting the fame of the library. Engraving by M. Dorigny after S. Vouet, 1640.
  • Lady Jane Grey: her portrait in a medallion before a shroud held by two putti . Engraving by C. Vermeulen after A. van der Werff, ca. 1730.
  • Queen Anne of Cleves, head and shoulders, in a rococo medallion; below, putti seated next to a crown. Engraving by J. Houbraken after H. Holbein the younger, 1740.
  • An East Indiaman (ship) buffeted by winds blown by four putti directed by the Earl of Buckinghamshire, President of the Board of Control. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1813.
  • Astronomy: a muse shows a treatise on the stars to a ruler, surrounded by putti with attributes of the arts and sciences, in the background an observatory [Greenwich?]. Engraving.
  • Cybele, a Phrygian earth goddess, surrounded by putti, lions, fruit and general abundance, a flying putto carries a model of a building on his head. Engraving by M. Küssel after S. Vouet.
  • Putti perform an anatomical dissection on a dog; others hold a jar containing a human foetus; two more play with a spider; representing anatomy and natural history. Etching by B. Picart, 1729.
  • Putti deprive a bird of air in a vacuum experiment, one plays at billiards, another plays with magnetised keys, while outside a storm rages: representing physics. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • Eros is seated on a chariot drawn by for white horses and surrounded by a crowd; above, putti holding a crown of laurel and the portraits of a man an a woman; rococo frame below the image. Ink drawing, ca. 1740.