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  • The Pyramids of Dahshoor, Egypt: view from the south. Photograph by Francis Frith, 1858.
  • The Pyramids of Dahshoor, Egypt: view from the east. Photograph by Francis Frith, ca. 1858.
  • The Pyramids of Sakkarah, Egypt: view from the north east. Photograph by Francis Frith, 1858.
  • Above, the shell of a purpura; below, three sea shells and three diagrams of pyramids. Etching by T. Jefferys.
  • The spectacle fly and the Egyptian jerboa; pyramids in the background. Etching by J. Pass, 1803, after G. Edwards.
  • Egypt: the pyramids at Giza and the Sphinx. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1870.
  • Pyramids at Gîza, seen from the banks of the Nile, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1846.
  • William Gladstone about to hit with a hammer the statue of Disraeli as a sphinx; pyramids in the background. Engraving, ca. 1878.
  • A jerboa standing in the desert next to an inscribed stone with pyramids in the background. Coloured etching by G. Edwards after himself.
  • Pyramidal neurons
  • Pyramidal neuron
  • Computer simulated pyramidal neurons
  • Pyramidal tract in brain and cord
  • Zululand: a married Zulu woman with a pyramidal hairdressing. Photograph.
  • Above, a Pavonian sucker; below, a pyramidal sucker. Engraving by Jackson.
  • Mexico: reconstruction of the teocal (Aztec pyramidal temple) of Cholula. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1820.
  • Mexico: ruins of the teocal (Aztec pyramidal temple) of Cholula. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1820.
  • Three skulls are piled up to form a pyramidal composition on which a dead child partly lies. Heliogravure after S. Beham, 1529.
  • Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusieurs fameux auteurs, grecs & latins, sacrez & prophanes / mises en nostre langue par P. Boaistuau, sournommé Launay, natif de Bretagne. Augmentées outre les précédentes impressions de six histoires advennues de nostre temps adjoustées par F. de Belle-forest comingeois, avec les portraicts & figures.
  • A crocodile in Egypt. Etching.
  • Archaeology: the tallest structures of the world. Mixed method engraving after A.M. Perrot.
  • A man in oriental clothing is leading a horse which is shying away from a semi-naked man who is sitting by the side of the road. Etching by C. Schule after J.D.Schubert.
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including a flogging, a mob by the Palace of Westminster [?], a soldier being cashiered, and a paddle-steamer exploding on the Nile. Coloured lithograph, [c.1844?].
  • Agriculture: two Egyptian fellahin with a plough in the left foreground, in the background two oxen yolked to a similar plough till the soil. Etching.
  • Engineering: a portable pumping engine, used in Egypt. Coloured lithograph, [post 1875].
  • An ornate garden obelisk decorated with urns and statues. Etching by J. Schynvoet after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
  • An ornate garden obelisk with women seated on the base shielding their eyes. Etching by J. Goeree after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
  • An ornate garden obelisk with a fleet of battle-ships carved on the base. Etching by J. Goeree after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
  • An ornate garden obelisk with a triumphal procession carved in relief on the base. Etching by J. Goeree after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
  • An ornate garden obelisk decorated with urns and cherubs. Etching by J. Schynvoet after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.