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  • Joseph and Mary, searching for a place to stay in nocturnal Bethlehem, find a stable. Etching by J. Parrocel.
  • Saint Geneviève as a shepherdess, seated under a tree, reading a book with sheep at her side; three angels in the sky. Line engraving by J.J. Avril after C. van Loo.
  • Hospital, Messina, Sicily, Italy: the central square with a numbered key. Tinted etching by J. Deny, 1783.
  • A man is selling horns from his basket, as emblems of cuckoldry: husbands reply that they will not buy any because they already have plenty. Engraving by Frs. Hubert after Le Nain (?).
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child. Engraving after Albrecht Dürer, 1516.
  • A medical officer examining a ship's crew for bubonic plague on arrival in the Thames. Watercolour drawing by F. de Haenen, 1905, after C.E. Eldred.
  • A medical officer examining a ship's crew for bubonic plague on arrival in the Thames. Watercolour drawing by F. de Haenen, 1905, after C.E. Eldred.
  • A medical officer examining a ship's crew for bubonic plague on arrival in the Thames. Watercolour drawing by F. de Haenen, 1905, after C.E. Eldred.
  • A medical officer examining a ship's crew for bubonic plague on arrival in the Thames. Watercolour drawing by F. de Haenen, 1905, after C.E. Eldred.
  • Saint Paul. Line engraving by N. Rÿckemans after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Saint Peter. Line engraving by N. Ryckmans after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Six rites of the Roman Catholic Church: the procession of the Holy Oils; the blessing of the Holy Oils; a bishop is received during a visit to his diocese; the bishop's pastoral exhortation; the kissing of the bishop's hand and the bishop's lying in state. Etching after B. Picart.
  • A Flemish surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by J. Daullé after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Io. Batis. Portae Neap. De humana physiognomia li. VI. In quibus docetur quom. animi propentes naturalibus remediis compesci possint / [Giambattista della Porta].
  • Constantinople: a girl embroidering. Engraving by C. Du Bosc, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.
  • Le diverse et artificiose machine / del capitano Agostino Ramelli... Nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese.
  • Le diverse et artificiose machine / del capitano Agostino Ramelli... Nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese.
  • Le diverse et artificiose machine / del capitano Agostino Ramelli... Nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese.
  • Le diverse et artificiose machine / del capitano Agostino Ramelli... Nellequali si contengono uarij et industriosi mouimenti, degni digrandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese.
  • Children playing a game with one of them being pulled along on a baby-walker with ribbons. Etching by N. Larmessin, 1735, after N. Lancret.
  • Carcassonne, France: a garden with a life size representation of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ: two views. Coloured lithograph after Gamelin fils.
  • A tilt-yard with tiered stands, designed according to the specification of Philip the Fair in 1306. Engraving by Guayté (A.J. Gaitte?), 1780, after J.D. Dugourc.
  • A poor Savoyard woman surrounded by her children, one of whom she is breast-feeding. Engraving by N. de Larmessin III, 1746, after J.B.M. Pierre.
  • A poor Savoyard woman surrounded by her children, one of whom she is breast-feeding. Engraving by N. de Larmessin III, 1746, after J.B.M. Pierre.
  • Albert, Prince Consort, on his deathbed at Windsor Castle, with members of the royal family and the royal household in attendance, 14 December 1861. Lithograph by W.L. Walton after Oakley, c.1865.
  • Albert, Prince Consort, on his deathbed at Windsor Castle, with members of the royal family and the royal household in attendance, 14 December 1861. Lithograph by W.L. Walton after Oakley, c.1865.
  • Albert, Prince Consort, on his deathbed at Windsor Castle, with members of the royal family and the royal household in attendance, 14 December 1861. Lithograph by W.L. Walton after Oakley, c.1865.
  • I.D. Waterman, seated, cross-legged, holding a carte de visite photograph. Photograph by C.W. Terpening, 1876.
  • I.D. Waterman, seated, cross-legged, holding a carte de visite photograph. Photograph by C.W. Terpening, 1876.
  • A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.