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  • A vain woman (Lady Pentweazle) sits to a portrait-painter (Carmine) while a servant holds her lapdog. Mezzotint by D. Lucas, 1832, after R. Smirke.
  • Nutritive value of milk / B. Leggett.
  • Two heads: Michelangelo and Raphael. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1650.
  • An HIV positive woman holding one hand up to her neck as she looks away beside figures cut out of meat; bearing the warning 'Sondermüll-Mensch' (human hazardous waste); advertising an exhibition about the Upper Austrian AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by Mares Andreas, 1995.
  • A man behind a woman who is combing her hair; representing the sense of sight. Engraving.
  • Krishna combing Radha's hair with attendant in the background. Chromolithograph.
  • The angel Raphael appears among the animals in the garden of Eden to gaze upon Adam and Eve. Aquatint with etching by R. Pollard, 1792, after C. Metz.
  • The figure of a woman divided in two parts: half skeleton, half lady of fashion, standing next to a obelisk inscribed with biblical quotations. Etching, 17--, attributed to V. Green.
  • Pears' soap : matchless for the complexion / Pears.
  • Jane Shore (mistress of King Edward IV), Henry Hastings (Dorset landowner and sportsman), Jedediah Buxton (mental calculator), and Mary Davis (with horns). Etching, 1808.
  • Diane de Poitiers, in her bed-chamber in the Château de Chenonceau, having her hair dressed by a female assistant; another woman stands to the left; a small child and a dog are in the foreground. Lithograph by L. Haghe, 1841, after W.J. Müller.
  • Diane de Poitiers, in her bed-chamber in the Château de Chenonceau, having her hair dressed by a female assistant; another woman stands to the left; a small child and a dog are in the foreground. Lithograph by L. Haghe, 1841, after W.J. Müller.
  • (Above) Zeuxis painting the portrait of Juno from the features of five different women; (below) Parrhasius deceives onlookers with a painting of a veil over a painting, and birds with a painting of grapes. Etching by J.J. von Sandrart after J. von Sandrart.
  • Fallen angels with animalized characteristics tumble from heaven under the sword of Michael. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.
  • An emaciated old man is transformed by four beauticians. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-J. Fuhr after Ch. Bargue, 1852.
  • Bathsheba brings the young maid Abishag to the aging King David for body heat. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1779, after G. Farington after A. van der Werff, 1696.
  • A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching R. Newton, 1795, after himself.
  • An obese man wooing a tall lean woman outside a mausoleum; representing dropsy and consumption. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.
  • J. St. John Long (a dubious medical practitioner) dressed as a funeral mourner surrounded by ducks and placards which advertise several malpractice cases of his in which patients died. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1830.
  • Analysis of beauty. Plate II.
  • A physician examining a urine flask of a scantily dressed attractive woman who is in bed surrounded by her mother, lover and servant. Engraving by A.F. David after J.B. Leprince.
  • Seven medical conditions humourously illustrated. Reproduction of an etching.
  • Analysis of beauty. Plate I.
  • Analysis of beauty. Plate I.
  • Five tombs containing skeletons of historical exemplars of wisdom, war, beauty, strength and riches; an allegory of change, decay and death. Engraving after A.P. van de Venne, ca. 1655.
  • A beautiful young albino woman. Stipple engraving, 1816.
  • Scene from Sir Walter Scott's "Anne of Geierstein": Hermione takes refuge in the chemical laboratory of Sir Herman, an Austrian alchemist. Oil painting.
  • Scene from Sir Walter Scott's "Anne of Geierstein": Hermione takes refuge in the chemical laboratory of Sir Herman, an Austrian alchemist. Oil painting.
  • Philiates (Filiates), Albania (subsequently Greece): the town and surrounding mountains. Colour lithograph after G.D. Beresford, 1855.