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Malaya: houses of inhabitants on Penang Island. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1881.

Six men and a woman drink and smoke round a table outside a country tavern, behind them children watch a woman pump water. Etching by J. Browne and engraving by W. Woollett, 1767, after C. Dusart.

Russo-Japanese War: rows of wounded soldiers in a temporary dressing station at Hsuchiakou, China. Collotype, c. 1904.

Russo-Japanese War: soldiers bringing the wounded on foot and stretcher through Kaiping, China. Collotype, c. 1904.

Anne Manning, a quack doctor, outside her cottage with Betty Upton. Etching, by W.J. White, 1818, after himself.

A man is thatching the roof of a cottage as a boy brings a bowl of water for the horses to drink. Lithograph after George Morland.

A bull resting in an enclosure outside a thatched cottage in England. Etching by R. Hills, 1802.

The village of Bolsheretsk in Kamchatka, with some of its inhabitants . Engraving by P. Benazech, 1784, after J. Webber.

Feock, Cornwall: "Come to Good", the Friends Meeting House of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Woodcut by Ashley Rowe.

World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

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A bull resting in an enclosure outside a thatched cottage in England. Etching by R. Hills, 1802.

Russo-Japanese War: rows of wounded soldiers in a temporary dressing station at Hsuchiakou, China. Collotype, c. 1904.

Feock, Cornwall: "Come to Good", the Friends Meeting House of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Woodcut by Ashley Rowe.

World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

A man is thatching the roof of a cottage as a boy brings a bowl of water for the horses to drink. Lithograph after George Morland.