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  • Burma: a lady attended by a servant bringing an elephant and another servant holding a parasol. Watercolour.
  • A Buddhist master (?) enthroned on an elephant, being presented with a sword-like object by a man and woman. Watercolour with gouache, China (?), 1750/1850?.
  • Ganesha and his two wives, Siddhi and Buddhi, surrounded by six attendants and his rats. Chromolithograph.
  • An elephant walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Écorché head of an elephant: two figures showing the musculature of the head and face. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1774.
  • An Indian elephant (Elephas indicus). Coloured etching after F O Finch.
  • Tiger hunting in India: men riding elephants shoot at a tiger that tries to escape by swimming across a river. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Ganesha enthroned holding his symbols with his rat. Watercolour drawing.
  • Ayuthia, Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1865.
  • An elephant with a blind man wearing glasses and holding a stick who prods the mammal in numerous places including hanging from its tusk; an advertisement for AIDS awareness by lAshraya, the AIDS Awareness and Counselling Centre, a Project of IMA Blood Bank. Colour lithograph by Meridian Ad Systems, Cochin, ca. 1998.
  • An elephant carrying a howdah, with two attendants. Gouache by an Indian artist.
  • An elephant killing an Indian criminal by stamping on his head; guards standing next to it. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker, 1875, after E. Bayard after L. Rousselet.
  • An elephant, seen from below. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1774.
  • Lakshmi lustrated by two elephants. Watercolour, 18--.
  • A Buddhist master (?) sitting on a chair under a tree, with books laid out on a table, while a young pupil kneels before him. Watercolour with gouache, China (?), 1750/1850?.
  • Head of an elephant: eight figures including an écorché head, with details of the muscles. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1774.
  • Manmatha (Kamadeva), Hindu god of love, shooting arrows with his bow while sitting on a elephant composed of women. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Anointment of Lakshmi. Gouache drawing.
  • Two circus elephants performing to a crowd by drinking and eating from a table. Coloured lithograph.
  • Eve emerges from sleeping Adam's side. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • Dr Barclay's advocation to the proposed professorship of comparative anatomy supported and opposed: represented by him riding the skeleton of an elephant into the University of Edinburgh. Etching by J. Kay, 1817.
  • Indian hunter and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • An elephant, with its abdomen dissected, seen from below: three figures, including two details showing the kidneys and bladder. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1774.
  • A royal sage tells the father of the fishergirl of their marriage. Chromolithograph by R. Varma, 1907.
  • Cambodia: elephants outside Angkor Wat. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Two elephants coupling with the message in German 'only with a condom' representing an advertisement for 10 years of AIDS of the AIDS-Hilfen in Austria. Colour lithograph by Buenos Dias.
  • Events in Krishna's life. Gouache drawing.
  • Burma: hunters on elephants confront a tiger on a wagon. Gouache painting.
  • Dissections of an elephant's trunk and tusks: seven figures. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1774.
  • Raja on an elephant in the style of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Process print.