Swallowing Collection

Python Swallowing a Roe-Deer, c1840s. Creator: Antoine-Louis Barye
Python Swallowing a Roe-Deer, c1840s

Jatayu's Attempt to Foil Sita's Abduction, Folio from a Vaidehisha Vilasa... between 1875 and 1900
Jatayu's Attempt to Foil Sita's Abduction, Folio from a Vaidehisha Vilasa (The Story of Sita), between 1875 and 1900

Jonah in the Whale. Creator: Augustin Hirschvogel
Jonah in the Whale

Saint John Swallowing the Book, from The Apocalypse, Latin Edition, 1511, 1511

Going to the Fair with it!... 1837. Creator: John Doyle
Going to the Fair with it!. A Cant Phrase for doing any thing in an extravagant way - Known it is presumed to most persons, 1837

John Bull the Leviatan of the Ocean or the French Fleet sailing into the Mouth of the Nile December 12th, 1798, pub. London 1798 (hand coloured engraving)

Lothrop Withington, Jr (right), a Harvard freshman, swallowing a goldfish, USA, 1935. Three days later, at Franklin and Marshall College, a young man ate three

St John Devouring the Book, 1498 (1906). Artist: Albrecht Durer
St John Devouring the Book, 1498 (1906). Scene from the Apocalypse. From Durer Des Meisters Gemalde Kupferstiche und Holzschnitte in 471 Abbildungen [Stuttgart und Leipzig, Deutsch Verlags-Ansalt

Swallowing canes in a ceremonial ritual, New Guinea, 1936. Artist: Wide World Photos
Swallowing canes in a ceremonial ritual, New Guinea, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

The Indian Juggler, 1818. Performing his astonishing feats of activity - a performer balancing a sword on his chin, or possibly swallowing it

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