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Monkeys

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  • Paradise lost : break the chain / BUAV.
  • Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
  • A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • A monkey physician examining a cat patient for fleas. Coloured lithograph.
  • Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine vendor, dressed in theatrical costume while selling his wares, assisted by another costumed person and a monkey. Engraving by I.R. Cruikshank after a Delft plate by B.S., 1750.
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    Four monkeys dressed as musicians giving a concert. Coloured engraving after D Teniers.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Reference: 39681i
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    Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.

    Bristow, Edmund, 1787-1876. | Date: 1 February 1828 | Reference: 16677i
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    A female figure with bowls of fruit and a monkey; Eve picks the apple from the tree of knowledge; representing the sense of taste. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.

    Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603. | Reference: 26958i
    Part of: The five senses (Martin de Vos)
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    Cerebral convolutions of the anthropidae (man) and simiadae (apes and monkeys).

    Sharkey, Seymour John (Sir) | Date: 1878
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    A monkey dressed in preparation against the cholera epidemic. Etching, c. 1832.

    | Date: 1832 | Reference: 17853i
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