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  • Glass: a wire-drawing machine for producing the lead cames used for glazing windows. Engraving by R. Bénard after Bourgeois.
  • A plaster moulder's workshop with a diagram of the tools used for making plaster moulds. Engraving by R. Bénard after Bourgeois.
  • Observations diverses sur la sterilité, perte de fruict, foecondite, accouchements et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveaux naiz / [Louise Bourgeois Boursier].
  • A marble block being raised in a sculptor's workshop, with four lifting jacks. Engraving by R. Bénard after P. Falconet and Bourgeois.
  • Two halves of a plaster mould of an arm and an entire plaster mould of an arm. Engraving by R. Bénard after Bourgeois.
  • Plan, cross-section and elevation of the trestle on which to work on a block of marble. Engraving by R. Bénard after Bourgeois.
  • Observations diverses sur la sterilité, perte de fruict, foecondite, accouchements et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveaux naiz / Amplement traictees et heureusement praticquees par L. Bourgeois dite Boursier.
  • School of Medicine, Paris: a mural in the amphitheatre showing fifty-six prominent medical men in a neo-classical setting. Lithograph by N. Legrand, 1908, after U. Bourgeois, 1895.
  • Les six couches de Marie de Médicis, reine de France et de Navarre / racontées par Louise Bourgeois, dite Boursier ; étude biographie, notes & éclaircissements par le docteur Achille Chereau.
  • A bourgeois wife shows her husband the preserved foetus of her cousin. Wood engraving by F. Rouget after S.G.C. Gavarni.
  • A sculpture in a barrow drawn along on a sledge to its intended location in a church; with diagrams below of the machinery for positioning it. Engraving by R. Bénard after P. Falconet and Bourgeois.
  • Hebammen Buch, darinn von Fruchtbarkeit und Unfruchtbarkeit der Weiber, zeitigen und unzeitigen Geburt ... zufälligen Kranchheiten so wol der Kindbetterin als dess Kindes ... gehandelt wird ... [Thiel I-IV.--Anhang der 3 Theilen] / [Louise Bourgeois Boursier].
  • The eye of God, with the dove of the Holy Spirit, the Sacred Hearts of Christ and the Virgin, and the Eucharist, venerated by a male saint and Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque; below, the Visitation with Joseph and Zacharias. Engraving by A.A. Bourgeois de la Richardiere.
  • Boston, Massachusetts: John Malcolm, a customs official, is lowered by ropes from his house on to a cart and tarred and feathered by a crowd protesting against taxation. Engraving by F. Godefroy, 1784.
  • Woman suffering from cystic adenoma of the thyroid gland
  • A physician, a burgess (the physician's patient), and the dean of a university, in their respective costumes, 13--. Coloured wood engraving by Cupré after F.P.
  • Old woman with prominent cystic goitre
  • A coachman with a riding whip stands in front of a carriage, raises his hat, and offers a ride to Charenton. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal.
  • Heads of twenty-nine artists. Stipple engraving by A. Clément, 1805, after L.L. Boilly.
  • Man suffering from cystic adenoma of the thyroid gland
  • Guillaume Dupuytren, Dominique-Jean Larrey, and Nicolas-René-Dufriche Desgenettes, with an allegorical surround. Engraving by C. Geoffroy after A. Roy.
  • Mathieu-Joseph-Bonaventure Orfila, Antoine Portal, and Joseph-Claude-Anthelme Récamier, with an allegorical border of plants. Line engraving by C. Geoffroy after A. Roy.
  • Dr Simon Sparrow (played by Dirk Bogarde) spanking a nurse in the film 'Doctor at large'. Colour lithograph, 1959.
  • Advertisement for Dr. Pierre's Dentifrices, 1893?
  • A man is looking out of a window at policemen arresting the statue of the "pissing boy" in Brussels. Coloured lithograph.
  • Hygiene for children in China: six figures. Colour lithograph, ca. 1970.
  • A coach representing the quadruple alliance of England, France, Portugal and Spain is disabled owing to a broken wheel. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
  • A mother and daughter reviewing embroidery made by the daughter; a yarn-winder stands nearby. Engraving by F.B. Lépicié, 1740, after J.B.S. Chardin.
  • A bunch of winter-flowering plants, including heather, camellia and rhododendron. Chromolithograph by A. Bouvier, 18--.
  • A maid shows an old man his smallpocked face in a hand mirror. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé, 1823.