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Swamps

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  • A cayman basking on an island surrounded by swamp. Coloured lithograph after C. B. Brown.
  • Birds of the marsh and swamp shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Birds of the reed beds shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by H. Schlegel.
  • Singapore: a hill known as "Mount Echo". Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • A black man with a red head and right arm emerges from a foul stream into a landscape where a winged woman is waiting for him with a red garment; representing the transformations of the alchemical work from corruption to perfection. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
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    Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

    | Date: [1671] | Reference: 24654i
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    Singapore: a hill known as "Mount Echo". Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.

    Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), active 1860-1885. | Date: 1879 | Reference: 31942i
    Part of: Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.
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    Dissertatio medica inauguralis, sistens quaedam de palustrium locorum insalubritate a miasmate oriunda / [Stephen Pellet].

    Pellet, Stephen. | Date: 1779
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    A cayman basking on an island surrounded by swamp. Coloured lithograph after C. B. Brown.

    Brown, C. B. | Reference: 42608i
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    Birds of the marsh and swamp shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.

    | Reference: 43142i
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