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Ravana slaughtering Jatayu the vulture, while an abducted Sita looks away in horror. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
Ravi Varma, 1848-1906.Reference: 26478i- Books
"Epistula de vulture" : Untersuchungen zur einer organotherapeutischen Drogenmonographie des Fruḧmittelalters / Rainer Möhler.
Möhler, Rainer, 1961-Date: 1990- Pictures
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Birds of prey gathered by a lakeside: falcon, heron, monkey, vulture, sea gull and eagle. Etching by J. Griffier after F. Barlow.
Barlow, Francis, 1622-1704.Reference: 42859i- Pictures
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Left, a Bearded Vulture, middle, an Osprey, right, a Griffon Vulture. Coloured chalk lithograph.
Reference: 40235i- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: vulture, elephant (June 1993)
Date: 19/06/1993Reference: PP/AMI/B/467Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Pictures
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Zoological Society of London: a Griffin vulture. Etching.
Reference: 42404i- Pictures
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Tibet: a dead body being broken up with a hammer and knife for throwing to the birds. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 663973i- Pictures
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A vulture. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565.Date: 1553/1560Reference: 40956i- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: delphinium, African marigold, cactus, chimpanzee, vulture (June 1993)
Date: 07/06/1993-19/06/1993Reference: PP/AMI/B/463Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Books
The vulture in ancient medical lore / Loren MacKinney.
MacKinney, Loren C. (Loren Carey), 1891-1963Date: 1942- Books
Vulture medicine in the modern world / Loren MacKinney.
MacKinney, Loren C. (Loren Carey), 1891-1963Date: 1942- Books
Vulture medicine in the medieval world / Loren MacKinney.
MacKinney, Loren C. (Loren Carey), 1891-1963Date: 1942- Pictures
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A mountain landscape with a vulture hovering over its prey, a chamois buck. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767.Date: 1741Reference: 39299i- Books
Weitere Überlieferungen des mittelhochdeutschen 'Geiertraktats' sowie eine althochdeutsche Übersetzung der 'Epistula de vulture' / von Joachim Stürmer.
Stürmer, Joachim, 1950-Date: 1982- Pictures
A bird of prey (vulture or eagle) in profile to right. Watercolour by M. Birch, 1971.
Birch, Martin, active approximately 1968-1973.Date: 4.3.71 [4 March 1971]Reference: 2853385iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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Exeter-Change. The following is a catalogue of part of the capital collection of birds and beasts now exhibiting at the grand menagerie in the Great Room, as above: A Royal Bengal Striped Tyger and Tygress, being the First ever exhibited at the above Place, much superior to any of the Kind in this Kingdom. - The Tygress was landed from the Duckingfield-Hall Indiaman, on the 14th of September, 1796. A ravenous hunting Tyger, from Bengal. An Asiatic Panther, from ditto. A beautiful Spotted Leopard, from Africa. A ravenous Laughing Hyaena. A wonderful Polar or Sea Lion; an amphibious Animal, which cannot live without being washed with Water every Day. A Jackall, or Lion's Provider. A ravenous Wolf, from Siberia, in Russia. A beautiful Antelope, from Asia. A large Tyger Cat; and a Muscovy or Civet Cat. A large Wild Man of the Woods, that walks upright, and is so extremely sagacious as to understand every Word the Keeper says to him. A Long-Armed Baboon; and a curious Ape, from Ape's-Hill, in Barbary. A stupendous Ostrich, Nine Feet high, from the Coast of Barbary. A Pelican of the Wilderness,-a Bird so remarkable as to be mentioned in Sacred History, that feeds it's Young ones with it's own Blood. A Royal Crown Crane, or Bird of Paradise. Two Condor Minor Vultures very rare and scarce. An Imperial Vulture, the largest ever seen in this Kingdom. A Golden Eagle, from Santa Cruz; and a Horned Owl, from Bohemia. And a Variety of other Animals and Birds, too numerous to insert. Admittance 1s. each Person. In an adjoining Apartment, is A wonderful Maif Elephant, which, although the largest Animal in the Creation, is so sagacious and tractable, as to be obedient to every Command of it's Keeper; and is so exceedingly tame, that Children frequently ride on it's Back with the greatest Safety, as the Den is well constructed for that Purpose. - Admittance 1s. each Person. In an Apartment under the Greatroom, is to be Seen from Obscurity, by A curious Appartus, Variety of Pleasing Perspectives and Public Animation, far excelling any thing of the Kind yet invented. Admission One Shilling each Person, or the Three Exhibitions for Half-a-Crown. N. B. Foreign Birds and Beasts bought, sold, or exchanged, by G. Pidcock, as above.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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The vulture and eagle. A poem humbly inscrib'd to Counsellor H--d. Written by P.Q.
P. Q.Date: 1727?]- Pictures
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A condor. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 43122i- Books
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Assassination display'd in the fable of the robin red-breast and vulture. By the author of The black-bird's tale.
Stacy, Edmund, active 1710-1715.Date: 1711- Pictures
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Heads of five birds, including a grey vulture, white-headed osprey, falcon, black woodpecker and a cuckoo. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
Ruprecht, H. J.Date: [1877]Reference: 578958i- Pictures
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A title page illustrated with two eagles and a vulture holding a sheep's skin between them. Engraving, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
Barlow, Francis, 1622-1704.Date: 1690Reference: 42788i- Pictures
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Rāma and Sītā being carried in the beak of Jatayu. Watercolour drawing, c. 1880.
Reference: 26735i- Books
Narrative of an excursion to the Lake Amsanctus and to Mount Vultur in Apulia in 1834 / [Charles Daubeny].
Daubeny, Charles, 1795-1867Date: 1835- Pictures
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Above, two humming birds, two molluscs, a mocking thrush, a hoopoe, and a racoon; below, a bat, a wasp, two mongooses, a vulture, a fish and a polar bear. Engraving.
Reference: 40540i- Pictures
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War in Egypt, Egypt: searching for the wounded and dead after the Battle of Kassassin. Wood engraving.
Reference: 20894i