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Six heads of birds: cocks, parrots and pigeons. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: 1789?Reference: 29159i
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A male and female frog promenading. Photograph by J.P. Soule, ca. 1876, after a drawing.
Date: [1876?]Reference: 644714i
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A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving after E. van Heemskerck.
Heemskerck, Egbert van, active approximately 1700-1744.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 35651i
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An interior of a games room: anthropomorphic figures playing, drinking, and smoking. Colour lithograph.
Reference: 11742i
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Animals dressed as doctors are about to vivisect a man in an operating theatre or anatomy theatre. Colour lithograph, ca. 1910.
Date: 1910Reference: 577237i
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Hares recovering after surviving a hunt, one of them taking another's pulse. Lithograph by WBT, 1859.
T., W. B., active 1859.Date: 1859Reference: 11743i
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Two men fighting while animals sit in pairs placidly watching; an allegory of man's ability to fight his own kind. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563.
Date: [1563]Reference: 26267i
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A procession of animals carrying guns and playing music is following a standard-bearing wolf on to a market place. Colour lithograph attributed to J.F.L. Dreier.
Dreier, Johan Friedrich Leonhard, 1775-1833.Reference: 39627i
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Men worship an ass bearing a religious image; alluding to both Aesop's fable of the ass and idol worship in Arianism and contemporary Catholicism. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
Christoph MurerDate: 1622Reference: 26660i
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A monkey barber's shop. Engraving after P. van der Borcht.
Pieter van der BorchtReference: 17887i
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George Frederick represented as a boar playing the organ on a stage, a monkey hold up a mirror and the stage is littered with other animals and instruments. Etching by J. Goupy, 1754.
Joseph GoupyDate: [1754]Reference: 34157i
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The evolution of a pig into a bull into an imposing man, and a book into an oven dish; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
Charles H. BennettDate: 1863Reference: 12100i
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A monkey shaving a cat's whiskers. Coloured etching by E. Keatinge.
Date: 1840-1849Reference: 29862i
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A monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Process print after J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers the younger.
David Teniers the YoungerReference: 36072i
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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.
Date: [1563?]Reference: 26283i
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The head of an ostrich. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: 1789?Reference: 29163i
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Heads of leopards, lions, and a sheep. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: 1789?Reference: 29143i
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The evolution of a barrel and goose into a donkey into a man wearing tails; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
Charles H. BennettDate: 1863Reference: 12105i
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A good servant, represented as a hybrid creature combining a man, a pig, an ass and a deer, carrying cleaning implements and having a padlocked mouth. Engraving after J. Hoskins.
Hoskins, John, 1566-1638.Reference: 29723i
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Interior of a dentist's surgery with animal participants. Reproduction of a coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 11750i
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Head of an elephant. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: 1789?Reference: 29145i
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The evolution of a muzzled bear chained to a post into a thug with a watch and garrotte stick; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
Charles H. BennettDate: 1863Reference: 12108i
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An alchemist's laboratory inhabited by monkeys: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after their obsessive, fruitless experiments. Etching by P. van der Borcht, ca. 1580.
Pieter van der BorchtReference: 17512i
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A sick frog is administered an enema by one of his companions; other frogs, some anthropomorphised, some not, stand by. Etching with drypoint by F-D. Hillemacher after N. Poussin, 1885.
Q41554Date: 1885Reference: 16945i
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Twelve heads of monkeys. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: 1789?Reference: 29234i