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  • People in Bangalore, India, suffering from starvation. Wood engraving, 1877.
  • Ming herbal:
  • A skull; representing starving Germans who can be helped by the Netherlands Red Cross. Lithograph by A. van der Vossen, 1922 (?).
  • A skull; representing starving Germans who can be helped by the Netherlands Red Cross. Lithograph by A. van der Vossen, 1922 (?).
  • The four horsemen of the Apocalypse galloping through the clouds. Woodcut, 16th century.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Tricosanthes
  • Ming herbal (painting): Ciliate desert grass
  • Diseased potatoes ... / Andrew Ure.
  • Saint Benedict of Nursia: after he has assured the monks of his monastery that God would not let them starve, several sacks of corn appear, which porters carry into the monastery. Line engraving by G. Giovannini after L. Massari.
  • A liveried footman sends on their way a starving family who are sitting outside the side-door of a mansion. Wood engraving by J. Thompson after Fred Tayler.
  • You've been fed, hand drawn illustration
  • SEM Phytophthora spores on rye grass root
  • Methods of irrigation practised in India: use of bullocks to raise water from a well. Wood engraving by A.H., 1874.
  • Groups of people with begging bowls stand around and some sit on the ground. Wood engraving.
  • Friar's cowl (Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • A Parisian seamstress suffering from anaemia is pale and weary at her sewing machine and drops her scissors; advertising the medicine Fer Bravais for anaemia. Colour lithograph by A.-L. Willette, 1896.
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including a shipwreck [?], a mob being addressed by an orator in the City of London, and a volcano erupting. Coloured lithograph, c.1849.
  • Portents of death and destruction. Gouache, ca. 1910 (?).
  • Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
  • An obese doctor acknowledging the favours of a French chef in his kitchen; denoting their complicity, the chef's food providing patients. Coloured etching by C. Williams, c. 1815.
  • Viburnum x bodnantense 'Dawn'
  • Two Scotsmen flying on a witch's broomstick from Edinburgh to London; representing Scots usurping the positions of southerners under the government of Lord Bute. Etching by P. Sandby, 1762.
  • Two Scotsmen flying on a witch's broomstick from Edinburgh to London; representing Scots usurping the positions of southerners under the government of Lord Bute. Etching by P. Sandby, 1762.
  • An embassy of the Nawab of Oudh (Awadh), led by his minister Haider Beg Khan, passing Patna on its way to Lord Cornwallis, the new Governor-General of India, in Calcutta in 1786. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1800, after J. Zoffany, 1796.
  • A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
  • A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
  • Saponaria officinalis 'Alba Plena'