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  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • Horse intestine with multiple attached parasitic worms
  • Saint Roch. Etching by D.M. Canuti.
  • Saint Camillus de Lellis. Engraving by G. Fabbri.
  • Saint Camillus de Lellis. Engraving by G. Fabbri.
  • Meteorology: the sun in Baffin Bay disperses thick fog in the shape of a semicircle. Coloured etching by P. Fumagalli, 1827, after B. O'Reilly.
  • Monoemugi, Somalia (?): people of Gingyra crossing the river Shabelle (?) by carrying their belongings in the inflated skin of a cow. Aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1819.
  • Jagas (African warriors). Aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1819.
  • Saint James the Great. Etching by D.M. Canuti.
  • A veiled woman, kneeling, begs a young man for alms; her three sick children at her feet. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • A writer (Pinelli?) resting, holding a book while sitting on a tombstone, his two dogs at his feet; a pyramid in the background. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • Saint Leonard of Port Maurice. Engraving by G.S. Perini.
  • Saint Gaetano holding the infant Christ. Stipple by P. Bernardi after M. Gandolfi, ca. 1800.
  • An itinerant salesman selling amulets against the bites of snakes and other animals to a crowd of people who purchase them eagerly. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1815.
  • An itinerant salesman selling amulets against the bites of snakes and other animals to a crowd of people who purchase them eagerly. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1815.
  • A friar giving food to lame people and to a mother and her two children. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • The rape of the Sabine women. Etching by G.B. Galestruzzi after Polidoro da Caravaggio.
  • The books of rituals compiled by Numa Pompilius being handed over to the people. Etching by G.B. Galestruzzi after Polidoro da Caravaggio.
  • Young women with their children kissing a reliquary presented to them by a hermit. Etching by Pinell, 1809.
  • A woman in Rome is trying to separate two women fighting, one is holding a stick, the other is holding a bucket; a child crying in the background. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • A young artist in his studio contemplating a skull. Etching, 1815.
  • Anatomical figure: anterior view of a skeleton, with muscles modelled in wax. Etching by A. Cattani, 1781, after E. Lelli and G. Manzolini.
  • Elijah prays for life to be restored to the widow's son. Line engraving by O. Gatti, 1625, after Il Pordenone.
  • The giant Antaeus carries Virgil and Dante to the Ninth Circle of Hell. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • Saint Gertrude holding her heart. Engraving by G. Foschi.
  • A well head carved with fish motifs, a metal ladle with a snake-handle, a funerary urn, and a terracotta relief of the caduceus and other objects. Etching by L. Roccheggiani, ca. 1811.
  • A woman with her children praying before a cross where her husband was killed. Coloured etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • The Colosseum, Rome: a friar is preaching to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.
  • Rome, Palazzo Farnese: paintings of the loves of the gods by Annibale Carracci. Engraving by P. Bettelini and G. Volpato after A. Carracci, ca. 1800.