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  • Old Swallow Street during the demolition.
  • Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Swallow's Nest' pox
  • Chinese C18 woodcut: External medicine - Swallow's nest' sore
  • Bamboo shoots with water : Swallow brand / product of The Continental Commercial Cannery Company.
  • Two gay men leaving a theatre after a play; advertising Swallow raincoats. Process print, 195-.
  • Two gay men leaving a theatre after a play; advertising Swallow raincoats. Process print, 195-.
  • Above, a Swallow Tailed Falcon, middle, a Lanner, below, a Malabar Shrike. Wood engraving after T. Bewick.
  • Chinese Materia medica, C17: Birds, red-rumped swallow
  • A swallow in flight. Engraving, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
  • A spider, annoyed by a swallow which was catching all the flies, plans to catch the swallow in its web, but is shown to be deluded when the swallow carries off both the spider and the web; illustration of a fable. Etching by D. Stoop, 1665.
  • A swallow-tailed hawk sitting on the branch of a tree. Coloured etching.
  • Two ducks and a swallow set in natural surroundings. Etching by T. Galle, 17th century.
  • Two moths, one a swallow-tail and one possibly a marvel-du-jour (Agriopis species). Stipple engraving with etching.
  • A swallow sitting on a rock above a town with two other swallows flying in the sky above. Coloured wood engraving by J. W. Whimper.
  • Spit or swallow : cum in the mouth increases the risk of HIV being passed on ... / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • The stolen Host, second episode: the young woman goes to church and receives the Host, but does not swallow it. Etching by F. Ragot.
  • Birds and animals in a neo-classical garden: ape, cassowary, pheasant, ostrich, swallow, peacocks and peahens. Etching by J. Griffier, ca. 1655, after F. Barlow.
  • Confused about food? : don't swallow rubbish : help turn Britain organic, join the Soil Association : bringing ideals down to earth / Soil Association.
  • Confused about food? : don't swallow rubbish : help turn Britain organic, join the Soil Association : bringing ideals down to earth / Soil Association.
  • The Panama Canal: Baron de Reinach, one of the promoters of the canal, is forced to swallow poison. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • An elderly man throwing his head back to swallow some pills and in the process tossing water all over himself. Coloured aquatint after M. Egerton, 1827.
  • An elderly man throwing his head back to swallow some pills and in the process tossing water all over himself. Coloured aquatint after M. Egerton, 1827.
  • Above, a swift, a swallow, a hyrax, an insect, a hippopotamus and a porcupine; below, two insect and a caterpillar and three reptiles, including a crocodile. Engraving by Heath.
  • A laughing servant-boy holding a teapot observes the silhouette of an older servant, who is standing behind a screen, preparing to swallow a small fish. Woodcut by Kunio, 1785.
  • A doctor asking an elderly patient if he has taken a box of pills that he has prescribed, the patient retorts that he found the boxes difficult to swallow. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1906.
  • An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavor, drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq.
  • An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart / By John Hawkesworth ... Illustrated with cuts and charts, relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known.
  • Sword swallower's Oesophagus and Heart Piercing
  • An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavor, drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq / By John Hawkesworth ... ; illustrated with cuts and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered or hitherto but imperfectly known.
  • Chinese sword-swallower and entertainer swinging a rope with cast metal weights attached to it. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.