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  • Two pelicans. Engraving.
  • Zoological Society of London: two pelicans. Coloured etching.
  • A variety of dental pelicans and other dental instruments
  • A pelican standing in front of a lake in which two other pelicans are already hunting for food. Coloured wood engraving by J. W. Whimper.
  • Single-ended pelican with ivory handle.
  • A great white pelican. Etching with engraving.
  • Dental pelican for tooth extraction, 18th century.
  • Dental and pelican forceps, 16th century and a chest.
  • Head of a pelican, with a detail showing the foot. Chromolithograph, 1877.
  • A common pelican standing on the shore of a river. Etching by Heath.
  • A cormorant, an ibis and a pelican standing near the water. Coloured chalk lithograph.
  • A duck and pelican with pond and other birds behind. Engraving by H. Le Roy.
  • Four heads of birds: a swan, a polyphemus, a wild duck and a pelican. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • An hippopotamus, a pelican, two flamingos, two water-rats, two ostriches and a crocodile in a landscape. Watercolour.
  • Various birds round a pond: peacock, crane, toucan, parrot, teal, gambo goose, mallard duck, pelican and bird of paradise. Etching by F. Place after F. Barlow.
  • The Sacred Heart, a chalice filled with blood from it and Instruments of the Passion; underneath the pelican feeding its offspring with its own blood. Etching.
  • Men digging minerals; a phoenix being reborn; a pelican feeding its chicks with its blood; symbols of the four elements; an apothecary's shop. Engraving by J. Drapentier, 1677.
  • A scene showing alms-giving of food, water, clothes and money; in the midst of this Charity is seen with a Pelican on her head holding a Sacred Heart. Line engraving by H. Cock after P. Bruegel, 1559.
  • Above, two perches, two insects and a hairy spider. Engraving by Heath.llitory of the wall, a peacock, a limpet, the stalk of a flower, a fish (pegasus), two insects, a pelican and a bird; below, a pe.
  • Rock tombs at Beni Hassan, Middle Egypt date from the Middle Kingdom dynasties XI (2060-1991 BCE) and XII (1991-1782 BCE) and rank among the most important monuments of Ancient Egypt. They were built for the dignitaries of Menat-Khufu, one of the oldest place names recorded in ancient Egypt. The tomb walls are decorated with mural paintings executed on rocky walls made smooth with plaster. These paintings are radidly deteriorating and most reproductions are from paintings of the originals. A small tree full of birds is shown at the bottom left of the tomb. Egypt is on the major migratory route between Europe and Africa which accounts for a variety of birds depicted in illustrations. After slaughter, birds were plucked and either roasted to be eaten immediately, or dried, salted and pickled in large amphorae. Wildfowl such as ducks, geese and cranes were sometimes fattened for the table and occassionally force-ded with bread and sweetened mash. Ducks and geese were also kept for eggs as were pigeons and pelicans. Domestic flow (chickens) were not introduced into Egypt in any numbers until the roman period (30 BCE-CE 395).
  • Surgical instruments, including lancets, saws and forceps; advertising the work of the surgical instrument-maker J. Songy. Etching, 1732.
  • Inventions: various items including a fountain-pen, a pendulum, and a pantograph. Engraving by T. Jeffrys.
  • A fallow deer, perch and four wading or water birds. Wood engraving by M. U. Sears, 18--.
  • Pocket case of dental instruments, 16th - 17th century
  • A group of animals, including a wolf, a dog and a bear are dressed in English countryside attire, are standing in field surrounded by birds. Reproduction of an etching by H. Weir.
  • An oval cartouche containing a dedication to Dr Richard Mead. Engraving by G. Vandergucht, 17--.
  • Dental instrument, 18th century.
  • A frigate bird. Etching with engraving.
  • John, 1st Baron Lumley. Line engraving, 1797.
  • Tav. 26. Tooth extraction and dental instruments.