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  • An episode in Baldo by Teofilo Folengo (Merlin Cocai): a centaur releases Falchetto and his companions from a cave, while Cingar ties Muselina to a tree and whips her with branches. Etching.
  • A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators. Engraving, 1748.
  • A centaur with Cupid. Etching by F. Perrier.
  • Bacchus on a chariot preceded by a drunken procession of nude men, women and satyrs all carrying grapes. Engraving, 16--, after G. Romano.
  • A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators. Engraving, 1748.
  • A centaur with Cupid. Etching by F. Perrier.
  • Bacchus on a chariot preceded by a drunken procession of nude men, women and satyrs all carrying grapes. Engraving, 16--, after G. Romano.
  • A centaur fighting a triton on a sea shore, while in the background another centaur is embraced by a nereid. Etching attributed to J. de Ribera.
  • Bacchus on a chariot preceded by a drunken procession of nude men, women and satyrs all carrying grapes. Engraving, 16--, after G. Romano.
  • A centaur advertising "Centaure" tonic wine made of Alpine plants. Colour lithograph.
  • Bacchus carried on a chariot pulled by leopards, accompanied by a drunken procession of bacchants and satyrs, with Silenus and two elephants. Etching by P. Aquila after P. Berrettini da Cortona, 16--.
  • Bacchus reclines while a satyr fills his bowl and Pan adorns his head with grapes. Etching after J. Ribera.
  • Chiron the centaur teaching Achilles to use a bow and arrow. Lithograph after J.B. Regnault.
  • The infant Achilles being entrusted to Chiron the centaur by his mother Thetis. Pen and ink drawing.
  • The child Samuel is laid down to sleep and the hushed priests await his prophecies; the elaborate surrounding panel is decorated with florid demons. Engraving.
  • A chariot bearing Aesculapius rides above suffering humanity: representing pathology. Etching by J. Chapman, 1823, after A.D. Macquin.
  • The education of King Louis XV: Venus hands him over to a centaur for education in manly ways. Etching by L. Cars, ca. 1757, after F. Boucher.
  • A centaur with Cupid. Stipple engraving by J. Condé, 1789.