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  • "Maistre Robert", a blind healer healing by laying-on of hands. Oil painting.
  • R. Morrison, Chinese Miscellany, Hwuy-pan
  • A physician pointing to a chamber pot. Line engraving by R. Nanteuil.
  • The British Museum: (above) the entrance facade, (below) the plan. Wood engraving after a design attributed to G. R. French, 1843.
  • Charles Waterton in Guyana riding on the back of a cayman. Coloured etching by R. Cruikshank, 1827, after E. Jones.
  • Christ raising the widow's son. Stipple engraving by J. Godby after R. Smirke, 1808.
  • The Panama Canal: the French Ministry of Justice discovers that the bank account of the company formed to build the canal is empty. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: Baron de Reinach, one of the promoters of the canal, is forced to swallow poison. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: to determine whether he was fit to be extradited, two eminent physicians examine the stools of Dr Cornelius Herz, who had fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled to Bournemouth, reads in a newspaper that he is being sought by the police for his part in the mismanagement of the canal's financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, lies in bed as a physician takes his pulse to determine whether he is seriously ill. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, one of those responsible for its financing, having fled France, spends his time fishing in Bournemouth. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: for an enquiry into its financing, a policeman guards a prison-cell in which some of the principals are remanded. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: the French Ministry of Justice opens an enquiry into its financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled to Bournemouth to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, simulates illness to avoid extradition to France. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, one of those responsible for its financing, gets on a train to flee France after the collapse of the company. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: having fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, Dr Cornelius Herz escapes extradition on the ground that he has a terminal illness, and lives happily in Bournemouth for fifteen years. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • John Grosvenor. Coloured etching by Robert Dighton, 1808.
  • Saint John the Evangelist: his vision of the Apocalypse. Engraving by M. Masson.
  • Twenty-five moral tales. Line engraving after [R.] Dighton after B. Franklin.
  • Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid. Coloured etching by Richard Dighton, 1824.
  • Men sitting to smoke with a panoramic view of the coast by Ashkelon, Israel. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1843, after D. Roberts.
  • Men sitting to smoke with a panoramic view of the coast by Ashkelon, Israel. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1843, after D. Roberts.
  • Men sitting to smoke with a panoramic view of the coast by Ashkelon, Israel. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1843, after D. Roberts.
  • Sir Francis Drake. Line engraving by T. de Leu after J. Rabel.
  • Sir Francis Drake. Line engraving by T. de Leu after J. Rabel.
  • Memoirs for the natural history of humane blood, especially the spirit of that liquor / By the honourable Robert Boyle.
  • John Ireland. Coloured etching by Robert Dighton, 1807.
  • Sir Matthew Wood. Coloured etching by Richard Dighton, 1819.
  • James Wood. Coloured etching by Robert Dighton, 1809.