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Background imageSucking Collection: Fair Exchange by George Studdy

Fair Exchange by George Studdy
Bonzo and the baby find fair exchange is no robbery. A rather alarming scene where the comic canine creation of George Studdy, Bonzo

Background imageSucking Collection: Cimex lectularius, bed bug

Cimex lectularius, bed bug
Scanning electron microscope image of a bed bug (x 17). The sucking mouthparts enable the feeding bedbugs to pierce the hosts tissues and siphon out a blood meal

Background imageSucking Collection: Chad - Cupping - Indigenous medicinal practise

Chad - Cupping - Indigenous medicinal practise
Chad, Central Africa - Cupping - Indigenous medicinal practise. Cupping therapy is an ancient form of alternative medicine in which a local suction is created on the skin; practitioners believe this

Background imageSucking Collection: Client: Monsanto Textiles - Girl's Knitwear dress

Client: Monsanto Textiles - Girl's Knitwear dress - Shoot date: July 24, 1969 Date: 1969

Background imageSucking Collection: Cow Goddess Hathor nursing Pharaoh Horemheb

Cow Goddess Hathor nursing Pharaoh Horemheb
Fragment of a granite statue depicting cow goddess Hathor nursing Pharaoh Horemheb. Reign of Horemheb. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1319-1292 BC. Date: 13th century BC

Background imageSucking Collection: Cute baby sucking its thumb, with toy duck

Cute baby sucking its thumb, with toy duck Date: 1930s

Background imageSucking Collection: Cartoon, More Pigs than Teats

Cartoon, More Pigs than Teats, or, the new Litter of hungry Grunters Sucking John Bull's Old Sow to death, by James Gillray

Background imageSucking Collection: Types of hydraulics systems and pumps

Types of hydraulics systems and pumps: Persian wheel or sakia, Tantalus or Pythagorean cup, Ctesibiuss ancient pump, and sucking, forcing, lifting and chain pumps

Background imageSucking Collection: The Vacuum - A Masterpiece by H. M. Bateman

The Vacuum - A Masterpiece by H. M. Bateman
Page 1 of 4. Brilliant sequential cartoon by H. M. Bateman depicting a man asking his maid to have a go at a vacuum cleaner, only to find he sucks up everything in his path. Date: 1920

Background imageSucking Collection: Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Baby / Calf nursing

Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Baby / Calf nursing / feeding from Mother immediately after birth (Tursiops truncatus). Part of a sequence of imagesDolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Background imageSucking Collection: Ornithodoros parkeri, tick

Ornithodoros parkeri, tick
Ventral views of male and female of this soft tick (Ornithodoros parkeri) from the family Argasidae

Background imageSucking Collection: Young boy punished - Russia - Elizabeth Bem

Young boy punished - Russia - Elizabeth Bem
Punished for Lying A young Russian boy with a mischievous glint in his eye thinks up some more daring do whilst writing out some lines as punishment for crying wolf.... Date: 1915

Background imageSucking Collection: Ethiopia, Africa - Bloodletting

Ethiopia, Africa - Bloodletting
Remedies: Bloodletting (after a razor has drawn blood) using a cow horn. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageSucking Collection: Boy sitting with his teddy bear

Boy sitting with his teddy bear on a comfy armchair. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Background imageSucking Collection: Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Crackers dog show inventions

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Crackers dog show inventions (with the authors apologies to Heath Robinson). Smoothing the Scotch Collie, Pampering the Pom, and Improving the Kerry Blues Beard

Background imageSucking Collection: Cornish Sucker and Doubly-Spotted Sucker

Cornish Sucker and Doubly-Spotted Sucker
Cornish Sucker (Lepadogaster lepadogaster), also known as Sucking Fish and Jura Sucker, and the Doubly-Spotted Sucker (Cyclopterus bimaculatus). Date: 1863

Background imageSucking Collection: Remora, or Suckerfish

Remora, or Suckerfish
Remora, also known as Suckerfish or Sucking Fish. Date: 1863

Background imageSucking Collection: Blueband goby, Valenciennea strigata, and shark

Blueband goby, Valenciennea strigata, and shark sucker, sucking fish, remora, Remora remora.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

Background imageSucking Collection: Two boys with cricket bat on a Balham street, SW London

Two boys with cricket bat on a Balham street, SW London
Two boys with a cricket bat on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Background imageSucking Collection: Two boys with teddy bears, Redruth, Cornwall

Two boys with teddy bears, Redruth, Cornwall
Two boys with teddy bears, en route to a Teddy Bears Picnic at their school in Redruth, Cornwall

Background imageSucking Collection: Be My Sweetheart - Valentines Day Card

Be My Sweetheart - Valentines Day Card (published by Valentine s!) Date: circa 1910s

Background imageSucking Collection: Dermacentor andersoni, Rocky Mountain wood tick

Dermacentor andersoni, Rocky Mountain wood tick
This armoured tick species, the Rocky mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) is capable of causing paralysis

Background imageSucking Collection: Halipegus hessleri, parasitic worm

Halipegus hessleri, parasitic worm
A parasitic worm specimen measuring 3.3mm

Background imageSucking Collection: Ornithodoros moubata, tick

Ornithodoros moubata, tick
This species of tick (Ornithodoros moubata) specifically carries the virus of African swine fever

Background imageSucking Collection: Theobaldia annulata, mosquito

Theobaldia annulata, mosquito
Watercolour by Amadeo John Engel Terzi (1872-1956) c. 1904

Background imageSucking Collection: Ixodes ricinus, tick

Ixodes ricinus, tick
Close-up of a recently fed tick (Ixodes ricinus) full of its hosts blood, on black background

Background imageSucking Collection: Amblyomma americanum, lone star tick

Amblyomma americanum, lone star tick
A pair of lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum). Ticks are blood-sucking parasites which feed on the blood of their host

Background imageSucking Collection: Calliphora vicina, blowfly larva and pupa

Calliphora vicina, blowfly larva and pupa
The larvae of this blowfly attack people asleep on the ground. Specimen found in Belgian Congo. Photographed by Martin Hall

Background imageSucking Collection: Sucking the good out of them

Sucking the good out of them. Illustration shows President Taft as a hen sitting on eggs labeled Reform Measures on a nest that is infested by rats labeled Cannon, Aldrich, Gallinger, and Smoot

Background imageSucking Collection: Vampire bats attack sleepers

Vampire bats attack sleepers
Three sleeping men attacked by vampire bats. Date: C.1895

Background imageSucking Collection: Model Sucking her Finger

Model Sucking her Finger
A model wearing a nightie, sucking her finger provocatively. Date: 1960s

Background imageSucking Collection: Echeneis and Echinorynchus (fish)

Echeneis and Echinorynchus (fish)
Echeneis (of the Echeneidae family) and Echinorynchus -- two fish, together with other items. Namely, 1. The Sucking Fish (Suckerfish or Sharksucker), 2. The Remora, 3. Echinorynchus Phocae, 4

Background imageSucking Collection: Little girl sitting in a chair

Little girl sitting in a chair
Study of a little girl sitting in a chair

Background imageSucking Collection: Boy doing Homework

Boy doing Homework
A schoolboy ponders over his maths homework. Date: 1960s

Background imageSucking Collection: Jessie Matthews in her pram Costume

Jessie Matthews in her pram Costume
JESSIE MATTHEWS in 1927 British singer and dancer of stage and screen, in her pram costume in the Charles Cochran production, One Dam Thing After Another

Background imageSucking Collection: Portrait studies by Raymond Sheppard

Portrait studies by Raymond Sheppard
Portrait studies (including a self portrait) by Raymond Sheppard. Artist Raymond Sheppard (1913 - 1958) studied art at Bolt Court under S.G

Background imageSucking Collection: Lion Cub Drinks Milk

Lion Cub Drinks Milk
A lion cub drinks milk from a bottle

Background imageSucking Collection: Mosquito Biting a Human

Mosquito Biting a Human
ANOPHELES MACULIPENNIS A female mosquito biting human skin

Background imageSucking Collection: Girl in Lacy Frock 1870S

Girl in Lacy Frock 1870S
Little girl wears a broderie Anglaise frock with vandyked falling tucker & hem & large bows on the shouders. Also short white socks & shoes with ankle straps. Hair cut short

Background imageSucking Collection: Giant / Pantagruel / Drink

Giant / Pantagruel / Drink
Baby Pantagruel supplied with milk (sucking from the udders of cows)

Background imageSucking Collection: Competing for Pig

Competing for Pig
Country bumpkins compete for a sucking pig fixed to the top of a greasy pole

Background imageSucking Collection: Letting with Leeches

Letting with Leeches
A seated gentleman and a riders steed take benefit of blood letting, courtesy of some water-bound leeches

Background imageSucking Collection: Social / Britain Vicar 18C

Social / Britain Vicar 18C
A farmers wife wears a white gown & apron, black pelerine, shoes with pointed toes & vamps, a mob cap, straw hat & pink belt. Her son wears a smock & blue stockings

Background imageSucking Collection: Swedish Baby in Cradle

Swedish Baby in Cradle
A Swedish baby girl is sucking her thumb in a cradle hanging from the ceiling. She wears a little red cap

Background imageSucking Collection: Ternate Bat

Ternate Bat
Vespertilio vampyrus : the TERNATE BAT, one of several varieties of South American bats supposed to be given to sucking blood



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