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  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • The dance of death: the prisoner discharged. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: the battle. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: the glutton. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: the virago. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: the careless and the careful. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • An obese man wooing a tall lean woman outside a mausoleum; representing dropsy and consumption. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.
  • The Walcheren inquiry into the misconduct of the Army Medical Board of three, resulting in its abolition. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson. 1810.
  • An obese bald-headed old man seated in an armchair while a hairdresser pours macassar oil from a bottle on to his scalp. Etching after T. Rowlandson, ca. 1814.
  • The Dance of death: frontispiece. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • An alchemist and his assistant hoping to turn base metal into gold. Aquatint after T. Rowlandson.
  • John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) with a copy of his 'Odes' in his pocket, shrinks from an approaching gentleman with a paper labelled 'pension'. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson, ca. 1787.
  • A couple looking lovingly and playing with their baby in a happy domestic environment. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.
  • The dance of death: the sot. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A prostitute leading an old man into the bedroom and taking money from him; implying that her services will act like a tonic and preserve his state of health. Coloured etching, 18--, after T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • A couple looking lovingly and playing with their baby in a happy domestic environment. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.
  • The dance of death: the urchin robbers. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: the courtship. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: time and death. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A vision of the first Mayor of London appears to the feasting Aldermen and warns them against luxury. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • The dance of death: the catchpole. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: the apothecary. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • An English rural apothecary's shop in which women apothecaries produce eye-lotion from their own urine. Watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800 (?).
  • The dance of death: the insurance office. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Franz Joseph Gall leading a discussion on phrenology with five colleagues, among his extensive collection of skulls and model heads. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • An alchemist and his assistant hoping to turn base metal into gold. Aquatint after T. Rowlandson.
  • A tooth-drawer in his establishment feeling the tooth of a bemused female patient, his assistant holds the pincers in readiness for extraction. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1823.
  • A woman sitting in a chair making gestures of pain while a hair-dresser combs her back hair and a maidservant combs a tress pulled forward over her face: in the left background a man having his hair combed, he too looks pained. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • The dance of death: the schoolmaster. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.