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  • A selection of vices and pliers. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • The tree of intemperance, showing diseases and vices caused by alcohol. Coloured lithograph, 18--.
  • Diamondworks: a selection of mallets, vices, pincers, chisels, and gimlets. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • A timber bending machine (below), various pincers, vices, and bits [?] (above). Engraving by J. Rapkin.
  • Worthy pastimes of olden times contrasted with vices of the present day. Engraving, c. 1627, after S. Ward.
  • Worthy pastimes of olden times contrasted with vices of the present day. Engraving, c. 1627, after S. Ward.
  • Sheffield: four cutlers working at benches with hammers and vices. Coloured aquatint by R. Havell after G. Walker.
  • Six men are working with saws, drills, hammers and vices making chairs, cabinets shelves and cradles. Coloured etching.
  • A bishop ordains John Horne Tooke as a priest: the devil replaces the ordinand's virtues with vices. Engraving, 1771.
  • The dance of death: Death emerges from the ground and is greeted by a group of allegorical women, symbolising the vices. Woodcut after Alfred Rethel, 1848.
  • 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.
  • Histoire générale et particulière des anomalies de l'organisation chez l'homme et les animaux, ouvrage comprenant des recherches sur les caractères, la classification ... les lois et les causes de monstruosités, des variétés et vices de conformation, ou traité de tératologie / [Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire].
  • Histoire générale et particulière des anomalies de l'organisation chez l'homme et les animaux, ouvrage comprenant des recherches sur les caractères, la classification ... les lois et les causes de monstruosités, des variétés et vices de conformation, ou traité de tératologie / [Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire].
  • A personification of Obedience with her attributes is attacked from the sides by eight vices; above her appears Christ on the cross; (top left) the sacrifice of Isaac; (right) Jacob sends Joseph to his brothers; (below) three examples of disobedience, including the expulsion from Paradise. Engraving after H. Wierix .
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Iconologia: or, moral emblems .... Wherein are express'd various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ... / illustrated with ... humane figures, with their explanations; newly design'd, and engraven ... by I. Fuller ... and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
  • Engraved emblem of Hercules choosing between Virtue and Vice, Vice taking off a mask and showing the deformities of syphilis.
  • Portrait of Henry Wakefield, Vice Chairman of the club
  • Hercules between Virtue and Vice. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
  • Medicina flagellata: or, the doctor scarify'd. Laying open the vices of the Faculty, the insignificancy of a great part of their materia medica; with certain rules to discern the true physician from the emperick, and the useful medicine from the noxious and trading physick. With an essay on health, or the power of a regimen. To which is added, a discovery of some remarkable errors in the late writings on the plague / by Dr. Mead, Quincey, Bradley, etc. With some useful and necessary rules to be observed in the time of that contagious distemper.
  • Medicina flagellata: or, the doctor scarify'd. Laying open the vices of the Faculty, the insignificancy of a great part of their materia medica; with certain rules to discern the true physician from the emperick, and the useful medicine from the noxious and trading physick. With an essay on health, or the power of a regimen. To which is added, a discovery of some remarkable errors in the late writings on the plague / by Dr. Mead, Quincey, Bradley, etc. With some useful and necessary rules to be observed in the time of that contagious distemper.