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A man sits on a high chair in front of a table surrounded by others: they watch two men in the middle of the floor perform a ritual. Etching by J. Barlow, 1790, after S. Collings.

A doctor holding death at bay from his patient: illustrated by him squirting a syringe at a skeletal figure entering via the window. Line engraving by N. Goodnight, 1787, after S. Collings.

Roderick Random (a licentiate from Scotland) facing a board of medical examiners at Surgeons Hall. Coloured aquatint by J. Stadler, 1800, after S. Collings after T. Smollett.

Three men dance in the street as a crowd gathers on Blackfriars Bridge, London, to celebrate the destruction by fire of Albion Mills. Etching by J. Barlow, 1791, after S. Collings.

Patients undergoing magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, 1790, after J. Collings.

Groups of men sitting at tables smoking and having a merry time: one man has fallen to the floor and spilled his tankard of ale. Etching by J. Barlow, 1790, after S. Collings.

A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat; the terrified patient looks on from the bed. Etching after S. Collings, ca. 1803.

People in a boxing club having a fist-fight: the chairman in the middle holds up a gavel, and a woman hits a man over the head with a tankard. Etching by J. Barlow, 1789, after S. Collings.

Edward V and the Duke of York are about to be murdered in their beds by two assassins. Line engraving by A. Birrell after S. Collings, ca. 1790.

Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore, a notorious spendthrift and rake, holding a levee: he is attended by his horse-racing and cock-fighting associates and others. Etching by J. Barlow after S. Collings.

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A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat; the terrified patient looks on from the bed. Etching after S. Collings, ca. 1803.

Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore, a notorious spendthrift and rake, holding a levee: he is attended by his horse-racing and cock-fighting associates and others. Etching by J. Barlow after S. Collings.

A doctor holding death at bay from his patient: illustrated by him squirting a syringe at a skeletal figure entering via the window. Line engraving by N. Goodnight, 1787, after S. Collings.

Roderick Random (a licentiate from Scotland) facing a board of medical examiners at Surgeons Hall. Coloured aquatint by J. Stadler, 1800, after S. Collings after T. Smollett.

Edward V and the Duke of York are about to be murdered in their beds by two assassins. Line engraving by A. Birrell after S. Collings, ca. 1790.