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Snake charmer with wife holding the snake. Gouache drawing.

Saint Cecilia with Saint Paul the Apostle, Saint John the Evangelist, a bishop and Saint Mary Magdalen. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after Raphael.

Aeolus, at the request of Juno, opens a door in a mountainside, releasing the winds that will wreck the fleet of Aeneas; representing the element air. Engraving by C. Dupuis, 1718, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.

An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animal's bladder. Drypoint by L. Flameng.

A begging Brahman performing a ritual with his wife. Gouache drawing.

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.

Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five interior scenes. Collotype.

An old man with a wooden leg, probably a former soldier, marches with a shouldered broomstick to the drum beaten by a child behind him. Lithograph by T. Farlow after R. Farrier.

Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.

Cupid (Love) with arrows sits next to items representing arts and sciences. Etching by H. Winstanley, 17--, after F. Snyders and A. van Dyck.

A man with a wooden leg plays the violin while his wife and children accompany him with a song. Coloured lithograph.

African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.

P. Gasparis Schotti Mechanica hydraulico-pnevmatica : qua præterquàm quòd aquei elementi natura, proprietas, vis motrix, atque occultus cum aëre conflictus, à primis, fundamentis demonstratur; omnis quoque generis experimenta hydraulico-pnevmatica recluduntur; & absoluta machinarum aquâ & aëre animandrarum ratio ac methodus præscribitur. Opus bipartitum ... Accessit experimentum novum Magdeburgicum, quo vacuum alij stabilire, alij evertere conantur.

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A man with a wooden leg plays the violin while his wife and children accompany him with a song. Coloured lithograph.

African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.

Aeolus, at the request of Juno, opens a door in a mountainside, releasing the winds that will wreck the fleet of Aeneas; representing the element air. Engraving by C. Dupuis, 1718, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.

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.