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  • "It would be simply impossible for a man who drinks to be a scout : keep off the liquor from the very first ; make up your mind to have nothing to do with it." : from "Scouting for boys." / Lt. Gen. Sir Robert baden-Powell ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • Princess Charlotte Augusta. Stipple engraving by J.S. Agar after C. Jones, 1814.
  • The funeral service of Lord Lister in 1912. Gouache by Cyrus Cuneo.
  • Saint Faith, holding a gridiron, being addressed in prayer by a monk; the Crucifixion below. Etching after J. Schnebbelie, 1821.
  • The Westminster Hospital, London. Wood engraving by T. Bagg.
  • Wood engraving: shrine of Henry V; by J. Jackson
  • 'Pest house' (isolation hospital in times of plague), Tothill Fields, Westminster, London. Lithograph, c. 1840.
  • A statue of a physician as Aesculapius whose shadow forms the shape of a donkey. Pen drawing by Gay-again, 1831.
  • Royal Aquarium : Notice: the manager has the pleasure to announce that he has concluded arrangements with Chang, the great Chinese giant.
  • Royal Aquarium : Notice: the manager has the pleasure to announce that he has concluded arrangements with Chang, the great Chinese giant.
  • Royal Aquarium : Chang, the great Chinese giant : just arrived : admission one shilling.
  • Royal Aquarium : Chang, the great Chinese giant : just arrived : admission one shilling.
  • Royal Aquarium : Cetewayo's daughters : Farinis Zulu Princesses : Unolala, Adza Mvoula and her baby Umgane, Unomadloza.
  • Royal Aquarium : on view with Wielands Realities!!! : Chang.
  • Royal Aquarium : on view with Wielands Realities!!! : Chang.
  • Royal Aquarium : Chang, the great Chinese giant : admission one shilling.
  • Cupid standing next to a tomb weeping and mourning the death of Queen Mary II. Mezzotint by J. Smith after G. Kneller, ca. 1695.
  • Royal Aquarium : Chang, the great Chinese giant : admission one shilling.
  • Royal Aquarium : the original Chang, Brustad, the Norwegian giant, the Chinese Tom Thumb, Wieland's living curiosities : admission one shilling.
  • Cupid standing next to a tomb weeping and mourning the death of Queen Mary II. Mezzotint by J. Smith after G. Kneller, ca. 1695.
  • Royal Aquarium : the original Chang, Brustad, the Norwegian giant, the Chinese Tom Thumb, Wieland's living curiosities : admission one shilling.
  • Royal Aquarium : Adonis, the African midgit on view with Wielands Realities.
  • Royal Aquarium : Adonis, the African midgit on view with Wielands Realities.
  • The uncovered head of a mummy: showing the head with the outer covering removed and the head with a pledget of tow in the mouth. Lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852.
  • Tradescantia 'Concorde Grape'
  • The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth of York) in 1503. Etching with engraving, 1784.
  • George Grenville, Lord Bute and the Duke of Bedford dance on the tombstone of the Duke of Cumberland to the tune of the devil playing the bagpipes. Etching, 1765.
  • An exhumed mummy in St. Stephen's Crypt in Westminster. Chalk lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852.