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Vultures

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  • A vulture flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus). Chromolithograph by W. Greve after A. Thorburn, ca. 1885.
  • A vulture. Engraving.
  • An Angolan vulture (Gyphierax angolensis). Colour lithograph, ca. 1875.
  • Ravana slaughtering Jatayu the vulture, while an abducted Sita looks away in horror. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
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Catalogue

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    A black vulture (Vultur monachus). Chromolithograph by W. Greve after A. Thorburn, ca. 1885.

    Thorburn, Archibald, 1860-1935. | Date: 1885 | Reference: 43001i
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    War in Egypt, Egypt: searching for the wounded and dead after the Battle of Kassassin. Wood engraving.

    | Reference: 20894i
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    Adam and Eve cover their nakedness as God makes his wrath felt in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.

    Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767. | Reference: 20726i
    • Books

    "Epistula de vulture" : Untersuchungen zur einer organotherapeutischen Drogenmonographie des Fruḧmittelalters / Rainer Möhler.

    Möhler, Rainer, 1961- | Date: 1990
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    A vulture flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2015362i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
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