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  • Two Sikh men dueling with wooden swords. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Two gentlemen duelling with pistols. Etching, 1823.
  • Two ladies duelling with pistols. Engraving, 1792.
  • A man is wounded after duelling with pistols in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Engraving, 1834.
  • The dance of death: the duel. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A nobleman shoots his opponent in a duel with pistols. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
  • Two men engaged in a mock duel as part of the festivities. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A duel on horseback between Alvar Sánchez and Gonzalo Gomez, watched by Doña Lambra: Alvar Sánchez is killed. Etching by A. Tempesta after O. Vaenius.
  • Frogs conducting a duel: one frog has killed another with his sword, watched by their seconds. Photograph by J.P. Soule, 1876, after a drawing.
  • Top: Daniel O'Connell as a cock supported by Jewish finance and the Roman Catholic church; below, O'Connell withdrawing from fighting a duel (?). Coloured lithograph by Robert Seymour, 1835.
  • Essays on the bilious fever : containing the different opinions of those eminent physicians John Williams and Parker Bennett, of Jamaica: which was the cause of a duel, and terminated in the death of both.
  • Horses pulling a stagecoach carrying a hunting party are shying at the sight of a pack of hounds chasing a fox; twelve vignettes show sporting and military events, such as duels and jousting. Etching by F. Paton.
  • A woman is holding her dying lover; a sword lying at his feet. Aquatint by F. Goya, 1812/1888.
  • Abel Drugger, from Ben Jonson's 'The alchemist', in a posture of combat. Engraving by J. Thornthwaite, 1777, after Roberts.
  • Goliath, covered in splendid armour, towers over the humble David. Engraving.
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo Demon. Chromolithograph, 1883.
  • Mrs Fitzherbert and George Prince of Wales represented as Adam and Eve standing under the Tree of Knowledge surrounded by the trappings of fashionable pastimes and vices, causing the devil to flee. Etching, 1786.
  • Mrs Fitzherbert and George Prince of Wales represented as Adam and Eve standing under the Tree of Knowledge surrounded by the trappings of fashionable pastimes and vices, causing the devil to flee. Etching, 1786.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • Charles Moore, A full inquiry into the subje
  • Charles Moore, A full inquiry into the subje
  • Charles Moore, A full inquiry into the subje
  • Charles Moore, A full inquiry into the subje
  • Charles Moore, A full inquiry into the subje
  • Charles Moore, A full inquiry into the subje
  • Charles Moore, A full inquiry into the subje
  • The Royal Naval Exhibition at Chelsea: exhibits and visitors. Wood engraving by R. Taylor & Co., ca. 1900 (?).
  • The giant Gog extricating the dwarf Xit from a bear in the Lions Tower at the Tower of London, watched by Queen Mary I. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • Mr. Lambkin drunk on champagne sitting in a carriage at Epsom with lots of other drunken bachelors. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.