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  • Market Cross, Winchester, Hampshire. Steel engraving by Roberts after W.H. Bartlett.
  • Wild countryside with a stormy sky; two men in prayer before a cross. Engraving by J. Roberts after R. Wilson.
  • St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: view showing St Pancras church, and the Wells in the background. Engraving by J. Roberts after J.B.C. Chatelain.
  • Portrait of Alfred Robert Davies Adams, half length with arms crossed
  • Arch crossing a ravine near El Sik. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Natal, South Africa: a wagon crossing the Umkomas River. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Natal, South Africa: a wagon crossing the Umkomas River. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Elands Spruit, South Africa: a river crossing on the road to Barberton. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • People crossing the river Tons by rope bridge, Himalaya mountains, India. Coloured aquatint by Robert Havell, 1820, after James Baillie Fraser.
  • Bronker's Spruit, South Africa: a river crossing on the Pretoria and Middleburg Road. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Van Staaden's Pass, South Africa: a river crossing on the Cape Road with horses and wagon. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner sits with a Chelsea Pensioner, telling stories of their campaigns: each is disabled in various ways. Coloured etching by Robert Dighton, 1801.
  • Moses parting the Red Sea: British politicians depicted drowning in the sea. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 5 December 1885.
  • A small boy at an apothecary's shop. Reproduction of a lithograph by A. Holswilder, c. 1890.
  • Childhood mortality: interior of a nursery with eight babies, watched by Death who opens the window from outside and reveals an industrial cityscape. Colour lithograph by Alice Dick Dumas.
  • The centenary of the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by Robert Koch is an encouragement to defeat tuberculosis. Colour lithograph, 1982.
  • Hieronymi Fabricii ab Aquapendente ... Opera anatomica. De formatu foetu. De formatione ovi & pulli. De locutione, & eius instrumentis. De brutorum loquela. Cum indicibus capitum et rerum notatu dignarum.... Et figuris aeneis / [Fabricius].
  • Superintendent Durkin and Inspector Mackenzie enter the rooms of Mr Roberts in London and find him severely wounded after an encounter with Major Murray. Coloured lithograph, 1861.
  • Major Murray, having been shot by Mr Roberts in the latter's rooms in London, retaliates by attacking Roberts with a beer bottle. Coloured lithograph, 1861.
  • The coffin of W.E. Gladstone lying in state in Westminster Hall, attended by five men praying. Drawing by G.B. Scott after A. Kemp Tebby, 1898.
  • Two men in posing pouches stand, facing one another: one grasps the other, forcing him backwards towards the ground. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Two men in posing pouches stand, facing one another, fists raised, exchanging blows. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Two men in posing pouches stand, facing one another, fists raised: one grasps the other round the chest with his left arm, bends, lifting and swinging him over his back, legs in the air. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A monk and a statue of Saint Patrick trying to prevent the devil from snatching the corpse of a witch from its grave. Watercolour by E. Bell, 1804.
  • A monk and a statue of Saint Patrick trying to prevent the devil from snatching the corpse of a witch from its grave. Watercolour by E. Bell, 1804.
  • A monk and a statue of Saint Patrick trying to prevent the devil from snatching the corpse of a witch from its grave. Watercolour by E. Bell, 1804.
  • A monk and a statue of Saint Patrick trying to prevent the devil from snatching the corpse of a witch from its grave. Watercolour by E. Bell, 1804.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers in a ward at the German hospital at Jacobsdal, South Africa. Process print after R. Thiele, 1900.
  • A character in the play "The widdow Ranter": Semernia, a Native American queen, with two pageboys. Mezzotint by W. Vincent.
  • A naked man puts a condom on the penis of another man who holds his nipple against a mottled background; advertisement for safe sex by the Comité SIDA aide Montréal. Lithograph by Robert Laliberté and Robert Ouellet, 1989.