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  • A unicorn. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • A virgin and a unicorn; representing chastity. Oil painting.
  • A virgin and a unicorn; representing chastity. Oil painting.
  • Tusk of the narwhal (Monodon monoceros), or horn of the unicorn.
  • Above, a spotted file fish; below, a unicorn file fish. Engraving by Jackson.
  • Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant (arum) with seed-pods resembling the horn of a unicorn, and (below) a unicorn's head. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.
  • A unicorn, a squirrel and a mouse. Cut-out engravings pasted onto paper, 16--?.
  • A sheep, two horses, a cow and a unicorn. Cut-out engravings pasted onto paper, 16--?.
  • Saint Justina, with a unicorn and a man praying to her. Etching by W. Unger after Moretto of Brescia.
  • The head of a rhinoceros with overgrown horn thought to be a unicorn. Coloured lithograph by (J.H.?) Clark after Campbell.
  • Emblem of Healing: a draft advertisement from 'The House of Medicine You Help to Build' series for Burroughs Wellcome and Co. The layout features the unicorn symbol.
  • A fight among animals: a lion is killing a fox and a unicorn is fighting a griffon while other animals are fleeing or watching on. Engraving by A. de Bruyn.
  • Schlange and kaupe from De unicornu...
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, small houses either side. Engraving by J. Boydell after himself, 1753.
  • Nashornlzafer als Skarabaus from De unicornu....
  • Schadelskeleton mit einem Narvalhn Horn from De unicornu
  • Kopfeines Nashorn vogels (skeleton) from De unicornu...
  • Saint Justina of Padua. Engraving after A. Bonvicino, il Moretto.
  • God, as a triangle representing the Trinity, pours light upon the Garden of Eden. Engraving.
  • God creates man and woman. Line engraving by E. Charpy after J. Sadeler.
  • In the Garden of Eden, while the serpent curls around the tree of knowledge, Eve is about to taste the apple. Coloured etching, 17--.
  • The animals look on as the angel expels Adam and Eve from paradise. Engraving by C.J. Visscher.
  • Noah and his companions follow the animals into the Ark. Etching.
  • Pill tile of Lambeth delftware, c. 1660
  • A gathering of many different animals with a large walled classical Italian-style garden behind and a banner bearing the book title above. Etching by W. Hollar, 1663, after himself.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • Camel sculptures on the road to the Ming tombs outside Peking. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Camel sculptures on the road to the Ming tombs outside Peking. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • A narwhal and large sperm whale. Engraving.