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Two cows resting by a woodland pool as a boy pipes in the tree above. Etching by C.-W. Kolbe, the elder.

A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.

Malvern Wells, Great Malvern, Worcestershire. Wood engraving by W. Radclyffe after W.H. Wood.

A short horned cow. Etching by H. Beckwith, ca 1848, after H. Strafford.

Skeleton and dissection of a cow: two figures, above, a side view of the skeleton, below, a dissection of the underside of a cow, showing the internal organs. Etching, 1823.

A cow and two sheep in a field. Etching by J. Janson the elder, 17--.

Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching, 1803, after J. Gillray, 1802.

Page 113: Krishna playing his flute to the cows and Radha who is immersed in the river, while an old man smoking a hookah observes. Watercolour drawing.

A travelling procession of health officials who ironically praise the coming of vaccination. Etching.

A study of cows in various positions. Engraving.

A milk maid with pig-tails, a waistcoat and a bunch of flowers with cows and a man sat in a barn beyond; she holds up a thumb bearing a blown-up condom with the message: 'Without? Without me'; German version of a series of 'Stop SIDA' [Stop AIDS] campaign posters by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.

A cow bellowing in a field by a lake. Etching by J. Janson, the elder.

Double picture: Durga slaying the buffalo demon, Shri Deri; Shri Dattatreya with a cow, two worshippers and dog. Transfer lithograph.

A battle. Gouache drawing.

Blood smear from bovine anthrax case, stained by

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Cows

Images from the collections

Images about Cows

Works from the collections

A short horned cow. Etching by H. Beckwith, ca 1848, after H. Strafford.

A cow bellowing in a field by a lake. Etching by J. Janson, the elder.

Double picture: Durga slaying the buffalo demon, Shri Deri; Shri Dattatreya with a cow, two worshippers and dog. Transfer lithograph.

A battle. Gouache drawing.

Blood smear from bovine anthrax case, stained by

Cows

Images from the collections

Images about Cows

Works from the collections

A short horned cow. Etching by H. Beckwith, ca 1848, after H. Strafford.

A cow bellowing in a field by a lake. Etching by J. Janson, the elder.

Double picture: Durga slaying the buffalo demon, Shri Deri; Shri Dattatreya with a cow, two worshippers and dog. Transfer lithograph.

A battle. Gouache drawing.

Blood smear from bovine anthrax case, stained by

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