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  • Pine spike cap fungus (Chroogomphus rutilus): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1899.
  • Pine spike cap fungus (Chroogomphus rutilus): one fruiting body. Watercolour, 1900.
  • A torture chamber where one victim is tied up and suspended from a pulley while being interrogated by two scribes, while another victim is suspended from the ceiling and lowered onto a spike with his rectum. Etching by L.M. after V.V.
  • A purple heart within an upside-down heart that could also resemble a man's genitals; the heart is pierced by a black spike coming in from the right spilling blood-like fluid; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Ouka Lele, ca. 1995.
  • A fish with spikes. Etching.
  • A fish with spikes. Coloured etching.
  • Membrane spikes and ruffles on fibroblasts
  • Pubic louse, tail end, CU spikes, SEM.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • Rebels impaled on wooden blocks with sharp metal spikes. Etching.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes; Carthaginian soldiers hammer more spikes into the barrel and prepare to close the lid. Etching by S. Rosa.
  • An outgrowth with alternating brown branches and purple spikes. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1968.
  • An outgrowth with alternating brown branches and purple spikes. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1968.
  • Three demons (?) torturing three men with spikes and burning them alive. Lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • A vibrating bell with spikes below emitting the word 'SIDA'; an AIDS warning to youths. Colour lithograph by Huỳnh Vqan Thuqan, 1992.
  • Left, a red mouth with sharp teeth, and tongues with spikes; right, red saltires with red and mauve teardrops. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1976.
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: suspended by a hook and two spikes inserted through the muscles of his back. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Little white people being threatened by huge black spikes representing global threats to the earth anticipated in 2001 (war, poverty, drugs etc.). Colour screenprint by Rajlich Design, 1995.
  • Little white people being threatened by huge black spikes representing global threats to the earth anticipated in 2001 (war, poverty, drugs etc.). Colour screenprint by Rajlich Design, 1995.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes with soldiers fitting more nails on the barrel and closing the lid. Line engraving after Giulio Romano, 1560.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes with soldiers fitting more nails on the barrel and closing the lid. Line engraving after Giulio Romano, 1560.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes with soldiers fitting more nails on the barrel and closing the lid. Line engraving after Giulio Romano, 1560.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes with soldiers fitting more nails on the barrel and closing the lid. Line engraving after Giulio Romano, 1560.