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Concept

Animals and civilization

Images

  • A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.
  • A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.
  • Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.
  • A barber-surgeon's house, where monkeys shave cats and let blood. Line engraving, c. 1660, after D. Teniers II.
  • A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Rat / Jonathan Burt.

    Burt, Jonathan. | Date: 2006
    • Books

    Animals and society : an introduction to human-animal studies / Margo DeMello.

    DeMello, Margo | Date: [2012]
    • Pictures

    Christ washes the feet of the apostles; Mary Magdalene washes Christ's feet; a farmer washes his cattle's feet. Engraving.

    | Date: 1829 | Reference: 22868i
    • Pictures

    A man dressed in macaroni-style with a high head-dress meets a monkey dressed in the same style. Mezzotint, 1774.

    | Date: Aug 2nd. 1774 | Reference: 2059375i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.

    | Reference: 17510i
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