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  • Posterior view of horse: tuber sacrale
  • Tuberous Leprosy
  • Tuberous Leprosy
  • Tuberous Leprosy
  • A species of the genus Arum: spadix, leaf and tuber. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Dragon arum (Dracunculus vulgaris Schott): leaf and base of stem with tuber. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum): spathe and spadix with hairs and flowers, fruiting stem, leaf and tuber. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • A plant with creeping tuberous root and large globose fruit. Watercolour.
  • Three Japanese women washing: One in a wooden tub, one standing and one crouching over a small wooden tub on the floor. Coloured photograph.
  • An animal in a tub of water. Watercolour by a Chinese artist.
  • Disinfecting sufferers of the plague in wooden tubs, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.
  • Cassava or tapioca plant (Manihot esculenta): leafy stem and tuberous roots. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1809.
  • Three children play with boats sailing in a large tub of water. Coloured lithograph.
  • Pots, tubs, boxes, baskets and bundles. Aquatint with etching by W.H. Pyne, 1804.
  • A woman is washing clothes on a wash board at a tub. Coloured lithograph.
  • A Roman bath-house: left, a fountain; right, a tub. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
  • A young woman and an old woman in a bath tub. Reproduction of a woodcut, 1495.
  • Leper asylum (?): clothes being washed and dried in large tubs, under a wooden shelter. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Black bryony (Tamus communis L.): flowering and fruiting plant with part of tuberous root and separate fruit with seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Five roots of different forms: spindle-shaped (carrot), fibrous (grass), beet-shaped (radish), tuberous (water hemlock), and onion-shaped (onion). Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • Tubs of Pectolit and faces of cattle: animal health in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Assia Animal health Ltd., ca. 2000.
  • Japan: two women washing: one bathing in a wooden tub and one squatting down holding a flannel. Coloured photograph, 1870/1890.
  • An evil magician raises demons from a distillery tub as onlookers fall back amazed. Coloured aquatint, c. 1808, after S. De Wilde.
  • Three distillers with streams running from their noses and mouths into a tub of "double rectified spirits". Coloured etching, 1811, after T. Rowlandson.
  • Three distillers with streams running from their noses and mouths into a tub of "double rectified spirits". Coloured etching, 1811, after T. Rowlandson.
  • A naked man sits on a chair, pours water and drinks a cup of water from a tub. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man visiting a health resort with his limbs immobilized is watching a wasp flying near him; bath tub in the background. Etching, 1869.
  • A man visiting a health resort with his limbs immobilized is watching a wasp flying near him; bath tub in the background. Etching, 1869.
  • James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger, as a washerwoman scrubbing clothes in a tub filled with hot soapy water. Etching by William Heath, 1829.
  • A man visiting a health resort is bound and transported on a day bed by two men; bath tub in the background. Etching, May 1869.