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  • Martyrdom of Paolo Erizzo. Line engraving by A. Zucchi after S. Manaigo after P. Longhi.
  • A Turkish oracle; the torture wheel of Pope Pius VI. Engraving.
  • A Turkish woman. Oil painting by a French or Dutch (?) painter, 17th century.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling a medicine to a man whose son has a poorly arm. Engraving by P. da Colle after N. Cavalli after F. Maggiotto.
  • A monkey rejects the old style clyster for his new 'clyso-pompe', which he fills with opium and marshmallow. Coloured lithograph.
  • A Turkish woman. Oil painting by a French or Dutch (?) painter, 17th century.
  • A Turkish woman. Oil painting by a French or Dutch (?) painter, 17th century.
  • Zaro Agha, wearing a turban, in profile, reputedly at the age of 150 years. Photograph, ca. 1925.
  • Zaro Agha, wearing a turban, in profile, reputedly at the age of 150 years. Photograph, ca. 1925.
  • Two women in a Turkish burying ground; one kneeling on a rug, the other watering plants. Engraving.
  • A Turkish man seated on a stool near a gallows prepares a noose inscribed "Declaration of war against the Allies". Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
  • Crimean War: an ambulance vehicle. Wood engraving.
  • A Turkish woman. Oil painting by a French or Dutch (?) painter, 17th century.
  • A profile of a man bisected with a curve for measuring the brain, skulls of a Turk (top right), a Georgian woman (bottom left) and a Caribbean (bottom right). Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.
  • A Christian man being shaved while a Turk sharpens his scimitar on a whetstone behind, surrounded by representations of virtues and proverbs; representing the exposure of Europe to a Turkish invader. Engraving.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A Christian man being shaved while a Turk sharpens his scimitar on a whetstone behind; representing the exposure of Europe to a Turkish invader. Engraving.