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A Zulu medicine woman or shaman practising in Basutoland, South Africa. Halftone after a photograph by L. Fairclough.

Fairclough, T. Lindsay.

A heavily jewelled Mahalakshmi with two parrots. Coloured transfer lithograph by A.R. Raghunath, 1897.

Raghunath, Ananda Rao, active 1897.

Date: 1897

Krishna spilling the milk maids pots. Chromolithograph.

A woman holding a flower. Ink drawing.

A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.

Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.

Date: c. 1610

A female bullfighter, with flowers in her hair, wearing a matador's jacket. Photograph by Castillo, ca. 1900.

A courtesan reclining on cushions. Watercolour drawing.

Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose whenever he saw her. Line engraving by J.C. Levasseur, 1769, after H. Collin de Vermont, 1727.

Collin de Vermont, Hyacinthe, 1693-1761.

Date: 1769?

Bangle woman, Madras, India. Watercolour drawing.

Four Kenyan shaman or medicine men dressed in ceremonial costume, South east Asia. Halftone.

A physician and nurse attending a sick patient (?) and her servant. Watercolour.

Cornplanter, a leader of the Seneca tribe, holding a smoking pipe with pipe attachments and axe-blades. Colour lithograph by J.T. Bowen after F. Bartoli, 1836.

Bartoli, F. (Painter)

Date: [1836], ©1836

Dhakate Bajirava Saheb. Coloured lithograph, 1888.

Date: 1888

Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose when ever he saw her. Coloured engraving by W.W. Ryland, 1772, after Pietro da Cortona.

Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669.

Date: 1 September 1772

Two couples in a dance position. Ink drawing.

A young woman in mourning dress. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868/1872.

Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1815-1879.

Date: 1868-1872

A mulatto Caribbean woman wearing elaborate clothes and jewellry. Etching by J. Gillray after himself, 1796.

Gillray, James, 1756-1815.

Date: 25 February 1796

A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.

Trappist Mission, Mariann Hill, Natal.

A Moorish man with wife. Gouache drawing.

A woman leaning wistfully on a large cushion. Chromolithograph, 1867.

Date: [1867]

A Nayar lady with distinctive hairstyle. Chromolithograph.

Abraham's servant is impressed by the beautiful Rebecca, who stands in white amid the women around the well. Engraving by P.-I. Drevet after N. Coypel.

Coypel, Noël, the elder, 1628-1707.

Date: [172-?]

A Moodaly and wife. Gouache drawing.

A courtesan holding a rose. Watercolour drawing.

Two money-lenders counting their money and keeping their accounts, one wears spectacles. Stipple engraving by T. Cheesman, 1791, after Q. Matsys.

Metsys, Quentin, 1465 or 1466-1530.

Date: 18 March 1791

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