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  • Chimney sweeps at work, and their brushes. Engraving by Mutlow after Blunt.
  • Two chimney sweeps, one of them is feeling ill and taking medicine. Coloured lithograph.
  • Two young chimney sweeps on a decrepit horse, in a yard; a man is seated behind them, facing backwards. Etching after E.H. Landseer, ca. 1848.
  • Chimney sweep's cancer
  • Chimney sweep's cancer
  • German chimney-sweep's costume.
  • Belgian chimney-sweep's costume.
  • Chimney sweep's cancer of the scrotum
  • Chimney sweep's cancer of the scrotum
  • The little chimney sweep, from Kingsley, The Water Babies
  • Brushes of a chimney sweep. Coloured engraving by J. Lodge.
  • A doctor's front door, with a chimney sweep, in the snow. Chromolithograph by John Leighton ("Luke Limner").
  • A doctor's front door, with a chimney sweep, in the snow. Drawing by John Leighton ("Luke Limner").
  • A chimney sweep looks over the top of the chimney from where he can see a man and a woman embracing through an open window. Coloured etching.
  • John Cottington, a chimney-sweep, in elaborate costume walking the street with smoking pipe and horn in hand, with descriptive verse. Line block, 18--, after engraving, c. 1620.
  • A laughing chimney sweep covered in soot except for his white wig which is glowing with hair powder. Coloured etching by W. Hanlon, 1795, after G.M. Woodward.
  • You should see me on Sunday! : John Knight's Family Health Soap / John Knight Ltd.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • Henry Brougham is praised by black ex-slaves for his part in their liberation, but criticized by children factory employees, on whom he turns his back. Lithograph by H.H. (Henry Heath).
  • A triumphant candidate, borne aloft by his supporters, is about to topple from his chair due to an obstructing donkey, the disturbance of a fight and a frightened family of swine dashing underneath. Engraving by William Hogarth and François Antoine Aviline, 1758.