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  • The main internal organs of a turtle. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • An apothecary sitting in his shop, sorting through materia medica, surrounded by paraphernalia of his profession. Engraving, ca. 1750.
  • Six species of tortoise, including the african land tortoise. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • A patient jumping up and screaming with pain while a surgeon is treating his leg; an onlooking woman seems to be pleading with the surgeon. Etching by J.G. van Vliet, c. 1630.
  • A patient jumping up and screaming with pain while a surgeon is treating his leg; an onlooking woman seems to be pleading with the surgeon. Etching by J.G. van Vliet, c. 1630.
  • Brand's invalid foods : retail price list / Brand & Co. Ltd.
  • Brand's invalid foods : retail price list / Brand & Co. Ltd.
  • Golden Temple, Amritsar. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Brand's invalid foods : retail price list / Brand & Co. Ltd.
  • A tortoise climbs up a female figure as she reaches out to a bird; in the background Adam and Eve are chased from Eden by the archangel Michael with his sword; representing the sense of touch. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
  • Golden Temple, Amritsar. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Above, a land tortoise; below, a turtle. Etching by Oudet after P.L. Oudart.
  • America: an alligator and a tortoise are about to slip into a river while a tapir and a wolverine look on. Engraving by T. Wallis after W. M. Craig.
  • The incarnations of Vishnu. Gouache drawing.
  • An apothecary sitting in his shop, sorting through materia medica, surrounded by paraphernalia of his profession. Engraving, ca. 1750.
  • Sale of reptiles (restriction) bill / UFAW.
  • William of Orange attacks Louis XIV and James II, who are riding on an ass; Father Petre, confessor to the queen of England, rides on a lobster with the infant Old Pretender; Cardinal Faustenburg falls off a tortoise. Mezzotint by P. Schenck, c. 1689.
  • Job rides on a turtle in front of his wife, his comforters and the devil. Engraving by D.V. Coornhert after M. van Heemskerck, 1559.
  • A lakeside scene with waterlilies flowering in the water and a tortoise on the bank. Watercolour.
  • A tortoise. Etching by E. Stalker, ca. 1801.
  • Brand's invalid foods : retail price list / Brand & Co. Ltd.
  • A common toad, frog, tortoise and eel-shaped siren. Etching by J. Scott, ca. 1808.
  • Vishnu in his incarnation as Kurma the turtle. Engraving, 1672.
  • Ten avatars of Vishnu. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Vishnu fighting with the conch shell demon with Kurma's help. Gouache drawing.