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  • Charles James Fox, dangerously ill, visited by an entourage of interested factions; representing the social and ministerial conflict surrounding him. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A ward on the top deck of a hospital ship with patients standing or sitting by their beds. Engraving.
  • Charles James Fox, dangerously ill, visited by an entourage of interested factions; representing the social and ministerial conflict surrounding him. Aquatint after J. Gillray, 1806.
  • Hospital visitors / Body Positive.
  • Hospital visitors / Body Positive.
  • Hospital visitors / Body Positive.
  • Hospital visitors / Body Positive.
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  • Hospital visitors / Body Positive.
  • A portly, well-to-do physician leaves his house, while his wife cavorts in the window with a young dandy. Lithograph by P. Numa, c. 1832.
  • The Evelina Hospital, Southwark: a mother and daughter visiting a girl in hospital at Christmas. Coloured process print, 1882, after C. J. Staniland.
  • Boer War: a wounded soldier being visited in hospital by his wife and little daughter. Halftone, c. 1900, after a photograph by E. H. Mills.
  • The Evelina Hospital, Southwark: a mother and daughter visiting a girl in hospital at Christmas. Coloured process print, 1882, after C. J. Staniland.
  • A fashionable young woman fainting into the arms of a young man at the bedside of an invalid. Engraving.
  • A group of aristocrats visit a young man in hospital. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by P. Hérault, c. 1925.
  • An Italian lazaretto: section, facade and floor plan of the chapel and visiting room. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1818-1820.
  • A dying fisherman lying in bed is being consoled by Queen Victoria, seated by his side. Engraving by W.H. Simmons after G. Steell, ca. 1865.
  • A dying fisherman lying in bed is being consoled by Queen Victoria, seated by his side. Engraving by W.H. Simmons after G. Steell, ca. 1865.
  • A dying fisherman lying in bed is being consoled by Queen Victoria, seated by his side. Engraving by W.H. Simmons after G. Steell, ca. 1865.
  • The lazaretto of Varignano at La Spezia: section, facade and floor plan of the visiting room. Pen drawing by I. Cremona, 1826.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: a nurse bearing gifts and flowers on her way to work. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A dying fisherman lying in bed is being consoled by Queen Victoria, seated by his side. Engraving by W.H. Simmons after G. Steell, ca. 1865.
  • A dying fisherman lying in bed is being consoled by Queen Victoria, seated by his side. Engraving by W.H. Simmons after G. Steell, ca. 1865.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: a queue of hospital visitors with a nurse collecting money for the hospital. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A convalescent soldier from Waterloo sitting with his wife and children. Engraving by G.T. Doo, 1847, after W. Mulready.
  • A sick patient surrounded by family and visited by a priest. Stipple engraving by Middlemist after T. Stothard.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients receiving women visitors, but a black soldier has no visitor. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
  • Boer War: the High Commissioner for South Africa, Sir Alfred Milner, visiting a hospital ward where two men lie injured. Pen drawing by Sahr, c.1901, after H.D. Collison-Morley.