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Three types of lizard and a crocodile. Engraving, ca. 1778.
Date: 1778Reference: 41906i
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A hippopotamus standing in the water biting the tail of a crocodile. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565.Date: [1560?]Reference: 41006i
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.
Date: 1927Reference: 28915i
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A crocodile with other reptiles on the bank of a river. Etching by A. Collaert, 16--.
Collaert, Adriaen, -1618.Reference: 42140i
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A crocodile in Egypt. Etching.
Reference: 41078i
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A crocodile in natural surroundings. Engraving.
Reference: 42606i
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Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
Sambon, L. W. (Louis Westenra), 1865-1931.Reference: 46543i
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Scientific instruments and attributes of philosophy: gyroscopes, telescope, pestle and mortar, cosmological manuals, natural history specimens etc.. Lithograph by J-B-J. Jorand, 1835.
Jorand, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph, 1788-1850.Date: 1835Reference: 25985i
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The Sudan: a crocodile. Photograph by R.G. Archibald, 1911.
Archibald, R. G. (Robert George), Sir, 1880-1953.Date: 1911Reference: 495165i
Part of: People and places around the Upper Nile and Gebel Lado, Equatorial Sudan.
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A naked man holding two small crocodiles stands on a drinks table surrounded by male spectators with the message 'Wild living. Safe sex'; advertising the AIDS Information Line in Amsterdam. Colour lithograph by Hans Verschuuren for the Stuurgroep AIDSpreventie Homo's and Buro GVO Amsterdam, 1991.
Date: 1991Reference: 672113i
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Africa: a lion, an elephant, a boa constrictor and a baboon are keeping a watchful eye on a crocodile about to emerge from the river; above, a secretary bird. Engraving by J. Barlow after W. M. Craig.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.Date: 24 June 1804Reference: 42078i
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A doctor holding a medicine bottle entertains a crocodile, while other crocodiles bite his coat tails; illustrating the saying "Laughter is the best medicine". Coloured lithograph by A. Schaefer-Ast, 1947.
Schäfer-Ast, Albert, 1890-1951.Date: [19]47Reference: 652870i
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A river god representing the Nile, holding a cornucopia, is sitting surrounded by a hippopotamus and a crocodile. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565.Date: [1560?]Reference: 41007i
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A crocodile controlled by a female devil to give her sexual pleasure by applying its mouth to her vagina. Gouache painting.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 462555i
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A woman attacked by a crocodile emerging from the water, in central Africa. Lithograph, 1874.
Date: 1874Reference: 561388i
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Cleaning teeth: a crocodile opening its mouth so that a bird can clean its teeth. Colour lithograph, 1964.
Date: [1964?]Reference: 537099i
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A crocodile encountered in the Hooghly river. Watercolour attributed to M. Harris.
Harris, Moses, 1730-approximately 1788.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 576813i
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A woman sitting on a crocodile; representing Africa. Engraving by A. Collaert, c. 1600, after M. de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Date: [160?-?]Reference: 27266i
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A frog representing 'tu' [you] clings on to the wide-open jaws of a small crocodile representing 'el SIDA' [AIDS]; with numerous surrounding AIDS-related messages in Spanish and English; an advertisement by the C.I.A.S. (Comité Independiente Anti-SIDI. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 675770i
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Crocodiles on the river, near Wadi Daboua, at sunset, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1848.
Roberts, David, 1796-1864.Date: 1 August 1848Reference: 33438i
Part of: Egypt and Nubia
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An unusual degree of tolerance ... Paynocil : the Egyptian plover.
Date: [1955?]
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A crocodile emerging from the Zambezi river and biting off a woman's leg. Chromolithograph, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 42303i
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Job rides on a turtle in front of his wife, his comforters and the devil. Engraving by D.V. Coornhert after M. van Heemskerck, 1559.
Heemskerk, Martin van, 1498-1574.Date: [1559]Reference: 20084i
Part of: Patientiae triumphus elegantissimis imaginibus expressus.
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Ethiopia: buffalo on the banks of a river, one of them being approached by a crocodile. Coloured lithograph by A. Löffler after J.M. Bernatz.
Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802-1878.Date: [1852-1855]Reference: 3015993i
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A bas-relief of a warship at the battle of Actium. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1771.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: [1771?]Reference: 2499309i

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Three types of lizard and a crocodile. Engraving, ca. 1778.

A hippopotamus standing in the water biting the tail of a crocodile. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

A crocodile with other reptiles on the bank of a river. Etching by A. Collaert, 16--.

A crocodile in Egypt. Etching.

A crocodile in natural surroundings. Engraving.

Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

Scientific instruments and attributes of philosophy: gyroscopes, telescope, pestle and mortar, cosmological manuals, natural history specimens etc.. Lithograph by J-B-J. Jorand, 1835.

The Sudan: a crocodile. Photograph by R.G. Archibald, 1911.

A naked man holding two small crocodiles stands on a drinks table surrounded by male spectators with the message 'Wild living. Safe sex'; advertising the AIDS Information Line in Amsterdam. Colour lithograph by Hans Verschuuren for the Stuurgroep AIDSpreventie Homo's and Buro GVO Amsterdam, 1991.

Africa: a lion, an elephant, a boa constrictor and a baboon are keeping a watchful eye on a crocodile about to emerge from the river; above, a secretary bird. Engraving by J. Barlow after W. M. Craig.

A doctor holding a medicine bottle entertains a crocodile, while other crocodiles bite his coat tails; illustrating the saying "Laughter is the best medicine". Coloured lithograph by A. Schaefer-Ast, 1947.

A river god representing the Nile, holding a cornucopia, is sitting surrounded by a hippopotamus and a crocodile. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

A crocodile controlled by a female devil to give her sexual pleasure by applying its mouth to her vagina. Gouache painting.

A woman attacked by a crocodile emerging from the water, in central Africa. Lithograph, 1874.

Cleaning teeth: a crocodile opening its mouth so that a bird can clean its teeth. Colour lithograph, 1964.

A crocodile encountered in the Hooghly river. Watercolour attributed to M. Harris.

A woman sitting on a crocodile; representing Africa. Engraving by A. Collaert, c. 1600, after M. de Vos.

A frog representing 'tu' [you] clings on to the wide-open jaws of a small crocodile representing 'el SIDA' [AIDS]; with numerous surrounding AIDS-related messages in Spanish and English; an advertisement by the C.I.A.S. (Comité Independiente Anti-SIDI. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Crocodiles on the river, near Wadi Daboua, at sunset, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1848.

An unusual degree of tolerance ... Paynocil : the Egyptian plover.

A crocodile emerging from the Zambezi river and biting off a woman's leg. Chromolithograph, 18--.

Job rides on a turtle in front of his wife, his comforters and the devil. Engraving by D.V. Coornhert after M. van Heemskerck, 1559.

Ethiopia: buffalo on the banks of a river, one of them being approached by a crocodile. Coloured lithograph by A. Löffler after J.M. Bernatz.

A bas-relief of a warship at the battle of Actium. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1771.