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A mother, her son, and their cat watching a storm through the window of a cottage. Engraving.

On a green ground with red decorative patterns, the cat's body is mainly in yellow, purple and blue

1 painting : gouache ; sheet 18.8 x 12.6 cm

A cat standing on its hind legs, formed by patterns supposed to be in the "Early Greek" style. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939.

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; sheet 7.3 x 10.2 cm

A boy and his cat are on a pirate ship. Coloured lithograph.

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Physiology practicums : explicit directions for examining portions of the cat, and the heart, eye, and brain of the sheep, as an aid in the study of elementary physiology.

Cats are not peas : a calico history of genetics / Laura Gould.

Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements

1 print : collotype ; image 16.7 x 40.7 cm.

A cat running. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

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Relationship of castration, spaying and sex to survival and duration of life in domestic cats / James B. Hamilton.

1 print : etching with aquatint ; platemark 21.1 x 16.7 cm

A couple hovering off the ground being observed by a huge goat with two cats. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.

"'The cut finger' tells the misfortune of a boy who cuts his finger while fitting the mast in a boat, to which a basin of water performs the part of a lake. Nothing can exceed the rueful visage of the blubbering boy save the matronly anxiety of an old woman, who, with all her cottage skill, and rustic appliances, is binding the wounded finger up. A young sister looks anxiously over the matron's shoulder; while a handmaid is taking the delinquent's knife from his right hand, which he seems to hold hard, seeking in the grip relief from the pain of his finger. This picture was, when it appeared first, called 'The young navigator' by the purchaser, Mr. Whitbread, who desired to see in its story the maritime glory of England in the dawn ; but a boy who cried at the sight of his own blood was not considered a true representative of our conquering tars, and the picture soon took the humbler name which the great painter at first bestowed upon it" (Cunningham. loc. cit.)

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 16.9 x 22.8 cm

A boy with a cut finger is treated by his mother, while two other siblings hold him as he resists. Line engraving by F.S. Goulu after D. Wilkie.

The subject purports to be Jenner practising vaccination for the first time. The person receiving the inoculation is an infant. This is presumably the occasion on 17 December 1790, when, according to Fisher and Baxby (opp. cit.) Edward Jenner inoculated his ten-month old infant son Edward with pustulous matter from Edward junior's sometime nurse to protect him against smallpox. The pustulous matter was described as swinepox or pigpox (in which case the inoculation would have been a form of vaccination, though not from a cow). However it may have been smallpox, in which case the inoculation would actually have been variolation and not vaccination. Jenner's vaccination of the eight-year old James Phipps with cowpox matter took place later, in 1796

1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; image 39.7 x 51.5 cm

Edward Jenner vaccinating his son, held by Mrs Jenner; a maid rolls up her sleeve, a man stands outside holding a cow. Coloured engraving by C. Manigaud after E Hamman.

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A mother, her son, and their cat watching a storm through the window of a cottage. Engraving.

A cat standing on its hind legs, formed by patterns supposed to be in the "Early Greek" style. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939.

A boy and his cat are on a pirate ship. Coloured lithograph.

Physiology practicums : explicit directions for examining portions of the cat, and the heart, eye, and brain of the sheep, as an aid in the study of elementary physiology.

Cats are not peas : a calico history of genetics / Laura Gould.

A cat running. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Relationship of castration, spaying and sex to survival and duration of life in domestic cats / James B. Hamilton.

A couple hovering off the ground being observed by a huge goat with two cats. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.

A boy with a cut finger is treated by his mother, while two other siblings hold him as he resists. Line engraving by F.S. Goulu after D. Wilkie.

Edward Jenner vaccinating his son, held by Mrs Jenner; a maid rolls up her sleeve, a man stands outside holding a cow. Coloured engraving by C. Manigaud after E Hamman.

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A mother, her son, and their cat watching a storm through the window of a cottage. Engraving.

A cat standing on its hind legs, formed by patterns supposed to be in the "Early Greek" style. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939.

A boy and his cat are on a pirate ship. Coloured lithograph.

Physiology practicums : explicit directions for examining portions of the cat, and the heart, eye, and brain of the sheep, as an aid in the study of elementary physiology.

Cats are not peas : a calico history of genetics / Laura Gould.

A cat running. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Relationship of castration, spaying and sex to survival and duration of life in domestic cats / James B. Hamilton.

A couple hovering off the ground being observed by a huge goat with two cats. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.

A boy with a cut finger is treated by his mother, while two other siblings hold him as he resists. Line engraving by F.S. Goulu after D. Wilkie.

Edward Jenner vaccinating his son, held by Mrs Jenner; a maid rolls up her sleeve, a man stands outside holding a cow. Coloured engraving by C. Manigaud after E Hamman.

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