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  • Practitioners and patients in a busy barber-surgeon's shop; represented by monkeys and cats. Engraving by C. Boel after D. Teniers.
  • A monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Process print after J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A monkey barber-surgeon's establishment. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • A monkey barber-surgeon's establishment. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • A monkey wearing spectacles reads the Times newspaper, with the Examiner under his arm, sitting beside a globe. Etching by T. Landseer, 1827.
  • A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.
  • A monkey dressed as a rat-catcher, smokes a pipe, and holds a pole with a wooden box attached to it (containing rat poison) from which dead rats dangle. Pencil drawing with watercolour by Fernand Pelez de Cordova.
  • The legacy of Rome / essays by C. Foligno [and others] ; edited by Cyril Bailey ; with and introduction by the Right Hon. H.H. Asquith.
  • The painter Hugo van der Goes with onlookers and a group of choir boys singing. Wood engraving after E.C. Wauters.
  • A native North American wearing an animal's head and feathered accessories with a schedule of events; an advertisement by Anishnawbe Health Toronto for The Joe Sylvester memorial Traditional Pow wow at Moss Park Armoury, Toronto on September 1 to 3, 1995. Colour lithograph by Joseph Sagutch, 1995.
  • A woman is playing the harp as she and her male companion sing together, representing a man and a woman in love. Etching by James Gillray.
  • Hippopotamuses with elephants in African jungle, representing the Behemoth of the Old Testament. Colour wood engraving attributed to Edmund Evans, 1867.