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  • Four shrews swimming and hunting for food on a grassy bank. Coloured etching.
  • An elephant shrew with a small proboscis. Etching.
  • An elephant shrew with a long proboscis. Etching by P. Mazell.
  • A shrew-mole (Scalops species). Coloured engraving by Griffith, ca 1822.
  • A shopkeeper sews up his wife's mouth to stop her from nagging. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • A couple lie in bed, the husband has a whip and thumbscrews, around the floor lie sheets of paper which tell of the way a wife should behave. Coloured etching by Williams.