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  • Prostitutes being led through the streets of Naples watched by men from the side and from a window. Engraving by Collyer after S. Wale.
  • A giant hand roaming through the dark streets of London, people and rats try to escape its grasp; representing bubonic plague. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • Crowds gather to watch as a cart loaded with women is dragged through the streets by horses. Engraving by C. le Vasseur after St. Jeaurat.
  • People are dancing to the music of the bagpipes and eating and drinking in the streets of the village. Engraving by E. Thelot after David Teniers.
  • A Chinese thief being flogged and forced to walk through the streets, while a man walks in front of him, hitting a gong. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, carrying a cross through the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Engraving by J. Frey, 1749, after Pietro da Cortona.
  • Honourable Artillery Company ground, London: people gather in the streets and on roof tops to watch the Lunardi hydrogen balloon going over their heads in the sky, 1784. Process print.
  • An overhead view of Paris streets with the message: "AIDS. 3 centres meet the youth so that information flows faster than the disease"; an advertisement by Mairie de Paris . Colour lithograph.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo: with a rope around his neck, he kneels before the Cross in the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Coloured aquatint by L.A. Garneray, 1820, after Martinet.
  • The St Bartholomew's Eve Massacre: men, women and children are thrown out of windows or slaughtered with swords and pikes on the streets of Paris in 1572. Engraving after D. Dodd, 1765.
  • A steam-driven carriage on the route between London and Bath passes through the streets of a village as bystanders watch its progress. Colour process print after H. Pyall after G. Morton, ca. 1828.
  • A steam-driven carriage on the route between London and Bath passes through the streets of a village as bystanders watch its progress. Colour process print after H. Pyall after G. Morton, ca. 1828.
  • Crowds of people are thronging the streets of Westminster, with traders hawking their wares and others arguing, and so much noise and bustle the horse and carriage is nearly overturned. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • The murder of Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe: French revolutionaries dragging her naked, headless, body along the streets of Paris with her head on a pike. Etching by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1815.
  • The assassination of Henry IV, King of France, 1610: a tumultuous scene on the streets of Paris, in which the King's coach is stuck in traffic and the assassin fatally wounds the King in his coach. Etching by J. and C. Luyken.
  • The assassination of Henry IV, King of France, 1610: a tumultuous scene on the streets of Paris, in which the King's coach is stuck in traffic and the assassin fatally wounds the King in his coach. Etching by J. and C. Luyken.
  • A man with a moustache points his finger with the message: 'Ohne gummi auf den Strich, so was tut Mann lieber nicht! [Without rubber/condoms on the streets, so what do men prefer no to!]; an advertisement for safe sex by the Authority of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, Hamburg and the Office of Public Health - Health Promotion / AIDS. Colour lithograph by Transglobe Black Box and DMB&B.
  • Street view.
  • Chinese Street Pedlar
  • Theatre, Portugal Street.
  • The residence of Sir Isaac Newton on the corner of Orange Street and St. Martin's Street, London: the Orange Street frontage. Wood engraving, 18--.
  • Stratford Place, Oxford Street.
  • Street-hawkers and shoemakers
  • Walt Whitman, Mickle Street
  • Ironmongers' Hall, Fenchurch Street.
  • Street scene, Hong Kong.
  • Street vendors and shops in a street in Paris. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.
  • Broad Street (latterly Broadwick Street), Soho, with a white silhouette replica of the Broad Street pump identifed by John Snow as a source of cholera-infected water. Photograph.
  • The residence of Sir Isaac Newton on the corner of Orange Street and St. Martin's Street, London: the Orange Street frontage. Engraving by S. Lacy after Meredith, 1811.
  • Medical Graduates' College, Chenies Street