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  • A man of high rank sitting on an elaborate howdah (canopied seat) on top of an elephant, preceded by two guards. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A procession to war with a band and cavalry. Gouache drawing.
  • Lakshmi being anointed by elephants. Chromolithograph.
  • The public bath or Baollee, near Old Delhi, India. Wood engraving.
  • A female and a male Asiatic elephant with their young and a caparisoned elephant with a howdah in the distance. Coloured etching by J. Bishop after J. Stewart.
  • Vishnu and Lakshmi on an elephant meeting Shiva, Parvati and Ganesha on a bull while Brahma watches in heaven. Chromolithograph.
  • Dissection of the internal organs of an elephant: four figures. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1774.
  • Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al biuo por Christoual Acosta ... En el qual se verifica mucho de lo que escriuio el doctor Garcia de Orta / [Cristóbal Acosta].
  • Dissection of the reproductive organs (?) of a male elephant: five figures. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1774.
  • A large elephant with a monkey on its back and various flowers and insects. Etching by W. Hollar, 1663, after himself.
  • An embassy of the Nawab of Oudh (Awadh), led by his minister Haider Beg Khan, passing Patna on its way to Lord Cornwallis, the new Governor-General of India, in Calcutta in 1786. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1800, after J. Zoffany, 1796.
  • Prince Vessantara offers an elephant to the seven brahmins from Kalinga. Watercolour.
  • 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--.
  • Hippopotamuses with elephants in African jungle, representing the Behemoth of the Old Testament. Colour wood engraving attributed to Edmund Evans, 1867.
  • An Indian military procession with camels, elephants and horses. Gouache drawing.
  • An elephant running wild with Lord Auckland in its trunk. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.
  • Fallen angels with animalized characteristics tumble from heaven under the sword of Michael. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.
  • Four studies of elephants, including a side-view of an elephant with a bandaged leg, with details of the head, breasts and genital area. Etching with stipple, by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1770-1779.
  • [Undated card advertising Hagenbeck's Ceylon exhibition at the Royal Agricultural Hall, London].
  • Elephant skull, side view: three figures, including a tooth. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1785.
  • Prome (Pyay), Burma: north view of the Great Pagoda. Coloured aquatint by William Daniell after James Kershaw, c. 1831.
  • A postcard illustrating a young couple surrounded by a variety of good luck charms. Process print.
  • Two elephants bathing in a stream in a jungle. Colour lithograph.
  • Lakshmi on her lotus in the water with elephant. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • A wealthy man, holding an umbrella, sitting on a howdah (seat) placed on the back of a rug-draped Indian elephant. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al biuo por Christoual Acosta ... En el qual se verifica mucho de lo que escriuio el doctor Garcia de Orta / [Cristóbal Acosta].
  • Girl acrobats forming the shape of an elephant at the circus of Srīrangam. Gouache, 18--.
  • Lakshmi sitting on a lotus being anointed by two elephants. Watercolour drawing.
  • A seventeenth-century wooden pharmacy counter carved in low relief, the central panel is of an elephant. Photograph.
  • Head of an elephant: six figures, including a detail of the eye, and dissections illustrating the bones and muscles of the head. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1774.