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Mules

Images

  • A clothed man and mule perform various tricks involving clothing, a hand-bell, bottle, chair and table. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A forest of doum palms (Hyphaene thebaica) in French Sudan, with a travelling group of men and horses. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • A clothed man gets off a mule and tries various ways to force the animal to move without success. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A mule kicks its hind legs. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Bacchus carried on a chariot pulled by leopards, accompanied by a drunken procession of bacchants and satyrs, with Silenus and two elephants. Etching by P. Aquila after P. Berrettini da Cortona, 16--.
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Catalogue

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    Robert Edwards riding on a mule. Etching by J. Ward, 1811.

    Ward, James, 1769-1859. | Date: June 1 1813 | Reference: 2848915i
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    A street scene in Cairo with a street seller at work. Coloured lithograph by J. C. Bourne, c. 1840, after O. B. Carter.

    Carter, Owen Browne, 1806-1859. | Date: [1840] | Reference: 25464i
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    A lakeside village scene with lombardy poplar trees (Populus nigra cv. Italica) growing by the water's edge. Lithograph after G. Barnard, 1848.

    Barnard, George, 1807-1890. | Date: [1849] | Reference: 23783i
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    A forest of doum palms (Hyphaene thebaica) in French Sudan, with a travelling group of men and horses. Wood engraving, c. 1867.

    | Date: [1867-1875] | Reference: 20934i
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    Bacchus carried on a chariot pulled by leopards, accompanied by a drunken procession of bacchants and satyrs, with Silenus and two elephants. Etching by P. Aquila after P. Berrettini da Cortona, 16--.

    Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669. | Date: [between 1600 and 1699] | Reference: 26941i
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