St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Engraving after T. H. Shepherd.

Brick-making: a young woman is pulling a large wheelbarrow full of clay while a boy tips a barrow load into a pug-mill, to which a horse is attached by a yoke. Coloured aquatint with etching after W.H. Pyne, 1805.

The Grassmarket with Heriot's Hospital in the background, Edinburgh, Scotland. Etching by G. Aikman, 1841, after Storer.

A fat man who is supports his stomach on a wheelbarrow is followed to a restaurant by a poor, thin man carrying a basket of food on his head. Etching, 1777.

John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich, is following a young woman who is pushing a barrow of carrots through the West End of London. Process print after J. Gillray.

A drunken Doctor Drainbarrel is placed in a wheelbarrow and carted home from the inn. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.

Politicians from the Opposition proceed down Whitehall to remove Sir Robert Walpole from office. Etching by F. W. Fairholt, 1848.

A man pulling a wheelbarrow. Lithograph, 1813.

A man in ragged clothes pushing a woman sitting in a wheelbarrow. Etching with engraving by W.Y. Ottley after the Monogrammatist bxg.

A railway employee (?) wheels away the dismembered body of a man killed in a railway accident; he converses with a physician. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

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<p>The temple of Isis is right of centre, and another smaller temple is on the left</p>

1 print : etching, with gouache ; platemark 21.5 x 39.2 cm

The discovery of the temple of Isis at Pompeii, buried under pumice and other volcanic matter. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

Tegg's caricatures.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 24.9 x 35.2 cm

1 print : etching with line engraving ; image 7.7 x 12 cm

A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

<p>The group consists of a man with short limbs, a legless woman in a wheelbarrow-like contraption, a man playing a musical instrument, a deformed and a dwarfish woman</p>

1 print : wood engraving ; sheet 8.2 x 13.7 cm

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The discovery of the temple of Isis at Pompeii, buried under pumice and other volcanic matter. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

A drunken Doctor Drainbarrel is placed in a wheelbarrow and carted home from the inn. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.

The Grassmarket with Heriot's Hospital in the background, Edinburgh, Scotland. Etching by G. Aikman, 1841, after Storer.

A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

A group of five beggars with different disabilities. Wood engraving.

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Wheelbarrows

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The discovery of the temple of Isis at Pompeii, buried under pumice and other volcanic matter. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

A drunken Doctor Drainbarrel is placed in a wheelbarrow and carted home from the inn. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.

The Grassmarket with Heriot's Hospital in the background, Edinburgh, Scotland. Etching by G. Aikman, 1841, after Storer.

A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

A group of five beggars with different disabilities. Wood engraving.

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