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Images

  • An owl with a bird clutched in its talons is disturbed by a dog. Wood engraving.
  • An eagle killing a snake with its talons. Engraving by F. Place, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
  • A Chinese warrior with mace in shape of an eagle's talon. Colour woodcut by a Chinese artist.
  • William Cobbett as a porcupine with a snake's tail with two taloned devils representing Sir Francis Burdett and John Horne Tooke. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.
  • Complete skeleton of a Harris' hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus)
  • Upper Palaeolithic period, view of gallery with heel prints.
  • The double-headed eagle, representing the Holy Roman Empire, stands on a bobbin holding in its wings the outer sphere of the universe showing the elements of time from which the world is made: months, days, planets, signs of the zodiac, etc. Engraving by P. Miotte.
  • A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
  • A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
  • A man is blown out of a window by an enema. Engraving.