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  • Introducing the revolutionary new FluorImager 575 from Molecular Dynamics : fluorescence imaging : moves you into the fast lane / Molecular Dynamics Limited.
  • Nicholas Ehrlich ( -1918), from an original photograph taken outside his clinic in Kislovodsk. He was shot by Maknos a counter-revolutionary in 1918
  • Marat, seated in a sedan chair, is carried in a triumphant procession of the revolutionary mob in the street of Paris. Engraving by W. Greatbach after T. Johannot.
  • Marat, seated in a sedan chair, is carried in a triumphant procession of the revolutionary mob in the street of Paris. Engraving by W. Greatbach after T. Johannot.
  • Nicholas Ehrlich ( -1918) with his staff and nurses during the Russian-Japanese war. From an original photograph taken in Ekaterinoslav, Manchuria. He was shot by Maknos a counter-revolutionary in 1918
  • Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe, is led out through the gates of La Force prison to the street in Paris where she is killed by the Revolutionary mob. Wood engraving.
  • A staunch magistrate surprised by the apparition of a radical demon. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
  • July Revolution, 1830, Paris: a man being carried to the Ecole de Médecine by printers who cry out to take up arms. Lithograph after E. Levasseur.
  • Maximilien-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre. Lithograph by H. Grévedon, 1824.
  • Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.
  • Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, with his mistress, both represented as chickens. Etching, 1791.
  • A dentist telling his patient in the middle of an operation that he has nothing to fear from revolutions as dentists are always spared. Reproduction of a drawing after L. Raven-Hill, 1924.
  • Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.
  • The dance of death: Death appears to the people in the inn and instigates them, the proletariat, to clear the throne to make way for communism. Drawing by or after E. Ille.
  • The assassination of General Kléber in Egypt: Kléber is stabbed in the chest by a man in oriental dress outside his tent. Etching by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1815.
  • Voltaire instructing the infant Jacobinism. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, ca. 1800.
  • Figures and vignettes: a man is asleep with a dog by his side, a child is being scolded by a woman, a soldier stands with a gun, etc.. Coloured lithograph by the Becquet brothers after V. Adam, 1852.
  • Figures and vignettes: above, deer, hounds, huntsmen, poachers and mounted hunters, below, soldiers in various uniforms and poses with one soldier trying to restrain a baulking horse. Coloured chalk lithograph by the Becquet brothers after V. J. Adam.
  • Figures and vignettes: men are on riding on horse back, a jockey sits on the ground waving his hands and a large couple walk arm in arm. Coloured lithograph by the Becquet brothers after V. Adam, 1854.
  • Figures and vignettes: above, a swineherd tending pigs and a herd of cows, below, peasants hauling a carved stone on a pushcart and sportsmen and hussars riding horses. Coloured chalk lithograph by the Becquet brothers after V. J. Adam, 1853.
  • Robespierre lying on a wooden bench being interrogated by the Committee of Public Safety. Wood engraving.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • La belle Espagnole, - ou - la doublure de Madame Tallien.
  • Selected writings of John Hughlings Jackson: frontispiece.
  • The assassination of Alexander II: the place outside the Winter Palace is strewn with corpses and debris of the bomb-explosion, while Alexander emerges alive from his coach. Process print (?).
  • Man-midwives attempting to deliver a monstrous woman representing the Dutch National Convention. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.
  • A troupe of blind musicians and their dogs confronting a rival street musician and his dog. Lithograph by Engelmann after S. Baptiste, 1828.
  • Denbigh Hall Bridge carrying the London and Birmingham Railway at Bletchley, Buckinghamshire: soldiers on horseback ride under the bridge as a train passes overhead. Engraving by W. Radclyffe, 1839, after G. Dodgson.
  • The widow of a murdered French envoy in Rome pleading for her life: a man tells her "We are Romans, we do not kill women". Etching after J.D. Schubert.