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Human-animal relationships

Images

  • Adam naming the animals. Etching by G. Scotin and J. Cole after H. Gravelot and J.B. Chatelain, 1743.
  • A woman breast feeding two puppies while a Mexican man and woman implore her to feed their baby, which is lying on the floor on a bed of straw. Chromolithograph after A. Utrillo Viadera.
  • Telephus (son of Hercules) being suckled by a doe in the temple of Athena where as an infant he was left to die. Colour photogravure after a mural at Herculaneum.
  • Adam and Eve are driven from Eden by an angel. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • Adam prays in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Run, Spot, run : the ethics of keeping pets / Jessica Pierce.

    Pierce, Jessica, 1965- | Date: 2016
    • Books

    Rat / Jonathan Burt.

    Burt, Jonathan. | Date: 2006
    • Books

    Wild man from Borneo : a cultural history of the orangutan / Robert Cribb, Helen Gilbert, Helen Tiffin.

    Cribb, R. B. | Date: [2014]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Adam prays in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.

    Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767. | Reference: 20714i
    • Books

    Animal rights / edited by Clare Palmer.

    | Date: 2008
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