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  • A man and a woman riding on horseback outside Cambridge: the man's horse is flatulent. Etching after H.W. Bunbury.
  • W.E. Gladstone in the character of Mr Pecksniff gestures away a persistent newspaper seller (C.S. Parnell?). Colour lithograph by Tom Merry after himself, 17 March 1888.
  • A heart pierced with an arrow and a warning to couples to use condoms: an advertisement for safe sex by Health and Welfare Canada. Colour lithograph.
  • A young man offers his hand to help a young woman cross a bridge over a brook, but she turns back as the bridge is too narrow. Engraving by W. Angus, 1793, after T. Stothard.
  • Queen Gunhilda, consort of King Henry III of Germany, receives from her page the severed head of the man who had accused her of adultery, after he had been defeated by the page in combat, but Gunhilda renounces her victory. Engraving by S.F. Ravenet after A. Casali.
  • Multiple heads of President George W. Bush; representing the dangers of human cloning. Colour lithograph, 2004.
  • Woman suffering from anorexia nervosa
  • Woman suffering from anorexia nervosa
  • Sarcoptina para las parasitosis de la piel : Doctor: les evitará el martirio de la hora de la comida recetándole: Anorexol que despierta el apetito / Laboratorios "Drean".
  • Sarcoptina para las parasitosis de la piel : Doctor: les evitará el martirio de la hora de la comida recetándole: Anorexol que despierta el apetito / Laboratorios "Drean".
  • After healing a lame man, the apostles Paul and Barnabas are mistaken for gods at Lystra; the priest brings them a sacrifice of oxen. Etching by B. Lépicié, 1721, after Raphael.
  • Doctor: les evitará el martirio de la hora de la comida recetándole: Anorexol que despierta el apetito : Serenitas, regularizador del sistema nervioso ; simpaticotonia-vagotonia ... / Laboratorios "Drean".
  • Doctor: les evitará el martirio de la hora de la comida recetándole: Anorexol que despierta el apetito : Serenitas, regularizador del sistema nervioso ; simpaticotonia-vagotonia ... / Laboratorios "Drean".
  • Woman with a tumour at the root of the neck
  • Three Fellows of the Royal Society offering the presidency of the Society to Michael Faraday in 1857. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after E. Armitage.
  • The mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria to the Christ child; Saint Joseph looks at angels who bear attributes of Saint Barbara and Saint Margaret. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after A. Tiarini.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes; Carthaginian soldiers hammer more spikes into the barrel and prepare to close the lid. Etching by S. Rosa.
  • A.J. Balfour as Prime Minister asks John Bull to pay for increasingly costly policies, but eventually John Bull refuses. Drawing by David Wilson, 1905.
  • Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the Belzoni Chamber at basement level, showing the sarcophagus of Seti I. Engraving.
  • White linen embroidered with a flower and the initials 'SC' with a letterpress narrative describing its role in protecting the artist from AIDS. Colour silk screen print after S. Calle, 1993.
  • A scene from the Mahabharata: Arjuna requests instruction from Krishna and receives the Bhagavat Gita. Chromolithograph.
  • Philippe Hecquet. Line engraving by J. Daullé, 1742, after Marie-Anne Chéron, Mme. Belle.
  • Aristotle refusing the hemlock (?). Oil painting by a painter in the circle of G.B. Langetti.
  • Aristotle refusing the hemlock (?). Oil painting by a painter in the circle of G.B. Langetti.
  • Aristotle refusing the hemlock (?). Oil painting by a painter in the circle of G.B. Langetti.
  • Mouth with large sublingual cyst
  • An inhabitant of Buruma Island, Uganda, suffering from sleeping sickness. Photograph, 1965, after photograph 1902.
  • Rama fighting with his sons with the help of Hanuman over a horse sacrifice. Watercolour drawing.
  • Left, a young woman condemned to be burnt alive by the Spanish Inquisition; right, a young man about to be burnt alive at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • Left, a young man avoiding being burnt at the stake for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition by recanting; left, a young woman avoiding being burned alive by recanting after the judgement. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.