Venus [Aphrodite]. Engraving by F. Piranesi, 1782, after T. Piroli.

A man sits outside a window to smoke and drink, his servant waits behind him. Stipple engraving by Sailliar, mid-18th century, after G. Dou.

Bertram Lyne Stivens. Photograph by Vandyk.

Seaside grape (Coccoloba uvifera): fruiting stem and floral segments. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.

Doctrine of signatures: a plant resembling the fangs of a snake, above, and a snake, below. Coloured ink drawing, c. 1923, after a sixteenth-century woodcut illustration.