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  • A monkey in human dress is leaning on a stone which a satyr is engraving into. Etching by T. Landseer, 1827.
  • A large monkey dressed in rags is about to beat a smaller monkey with a bundle of brushwood. Etching by T. Landseer, 1827.
  • A monkey physician examining a cat patient for fleas. Coloured lithograph.
  • Interior of a dentist's surgery with animal participants. Reproduction of a coloured wood engraving.
  • Two monkey jockeys are riding a terrified donkey. Etching by T. Landseer after himself.
  • 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 surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.
  • A monkey barber-surgeon's establishment. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • A monkey holding a clyster in an apothecary's shop. Engraving by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Female apes in human clothes are brawling, restrained by male apes in human clothes. Etching by W. Heath.
  • Monkeys dressed as apothecaries caring for sick animals in a surgery. Engraving by C. Boel after D. Teniers.
  • Half-human, half-monkey barbers shaving a goat. Etching by G. van der Gucht after J. Wootton.
  • A monkey, dressed in human clothing and holding up a medicinal remedy: representing quacks or itinerant medicine vendors. Lithograph by W. Nichol after J. Watteau.
  • A barber-surgeon's house, where monkeys shave cats and let blood. Line engraving, c. 1660, after D. Teniers II.
  • A monkey rejects the old style clyster for his new 'clyso-pompe', which he fills with opium and marshmallow. Coloured lithograph.
  • A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.
  • An alchemist's laboratory inhabited by monkeys: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after their obsessive, fruitless experiments. Etching by P. van der Borcht, ca. 1580.
  • A monkey squirting water through a large syringe at two other monkeys. Lithograph.
  • A monkey alchemist. Oil painting by E. Bristow.
  • 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.
  • A monkey barber-surgeon's establishment. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • Practitioners and patients in a busy barber-surgeon's shop; represented by monkeys and cats. Engraving by C. Boel after D. Teniers.
  • Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.
  • A monkey poet, in arrears with his rent, is embarrassed when his landlady opens the door to present him with bills. Etching by T. Landseer, 1828.
  • A monkey dressed in human clothes is tasting a pie offered to him by a female monkey. Etching by T. Landseer, 1828.
  • A monkey holding a clyster in an apothecary's shop. Engraving after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A monkey sailor and a female monkey, both dressed in human clothing, standing on a dance floor. Etching by T. Landseer, 1827.
  • 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.
  • Interior of a phlebotomist's shop with anthropomorphic participants. Lithograph by J.D. Harding, 1828, after E. Bristow.
  • Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.