164 results filtered with: Human behavior - Animal models
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Human physiognomies next to animal physiognomies, showing the relations between certain of the species. Etching, c. 1820, after C. Le Brun.
Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.Reference: 34513i
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A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.
Date: [1660?]Reference: 17509i
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George Combe lecturing on phrenology to a mixed audience in his Edinburgh home?; presented as a monkey with a phrenological head. Lithograph.
Reference: 11837i
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An monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers II.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 17779i
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Two men exhibiting postures which express their character: on the left a man of 'brutal sensibility', on the right, a miser. Drawing by D.N. Chodowiecki, c. 1789.
Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801.Date: c. 1789Reference: 28695i
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James Morison promoting his alternative medicines; satirised by five vignettes of a fox among geese. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1833Reference: 10764i
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A crane inserts its beak into the mouth of a wolf; illustrating Aesop's fable. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614.Date: 1622Reference: 26680iPart of: XL Emblemata miscella nova- Pictures
Cleaning teeth: a crocodile opening its mouth so that a bird can clean its teeth. Colour lithograph, 1964.
Date: [1964?]Reference: 537099i
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A doctor examining his patient; represented by a bloodhound with a terrier. Lithograph after W.J. Allen.
Allen, Walter James, active 1860.Reference: 11751i- Pictures
A tavern at night with monkeys holding the trial of an amorous couple of cats. Engraving, ca 1779.
Date: 1 Decr 1779Reference: 39794i
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Six heads of dogs. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: 1789?Reference: 29140i
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Frogs conducting a duel: one frog has killed another with his sword, watched by their seconds. Photograph by J.P. Soule, 1876, after a drawing.
Date: 1876Reference: 644719i
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Storks dressed as guards. Watercolour by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.
Tait, Geo. Hope (George Hope), 1861-1943.Date: 1900Reference: 577190i
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Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 183-.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [between 1830 and 1839]Reference: 11403i
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Three leeches in the role of physicians attend a grasshopper in the role of the patient and propose diet and bloodletting. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Grandville, ca. 1832.
Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.Date: 1830-1839Reference: 16367iPart of: Métamorphoses du jour
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Three cats singing. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939.
Wain, Louis, 1860-1939.Reference: 29844i
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Heads of a fox, a wolf and a weasel. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: 1789?Reference: 29138i
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A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving by W.H. Toms after E. van Heemskerck.
Heemskerck, Egbert van, active approximately 1700-1744.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 35654i
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The evolution of pieces of pork into a pig into a man seated at his dinner table, his plate and cutlery evolved from a skull and crossbones; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867.Date: 1863Reference: 12106iPart of: The origin of species, dedicated by natural selection to Dr. Charles Darwin
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A monkey seated on a pile of books on a chair is playing the drum, looking at an upside down violin score. Wood engraving after Ph. Rousseau, 1861.
Rousseau, Philippe, 1816-1887.Reference: 578904i
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Two polar bears meet near the North Pole: despite the cold, the female bear is wearing an off-the-shoulder dress, which the male bear attributes to high tolerance of cold among northern females. Lithograph by CMK (?).
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 32940i
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Fallen angels with animalized characteristics tumble from heaven under the sword of Michael. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Date: 1583Reference: 25051i- Pictures
Four heads of fishes. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: 1789?Reference: 29230i
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The ages of man represented as a step scheme. Reproduction of an engraving by C. Bertelli.
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Three images of a goat and three of men bearing physiognomical similarities to goats. Etching, c. 1820, after C. Le Brun.
Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.Reference: 34237i