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  • Journal of a voyage in Baffin's bay.. Sutherland, 1852
  • Journal of a voyage in Baffin's bay.. Sutherland, 1852
  • Imagine having your body left to science... while you're still in it / PETA.
  • Imagine having your body left to science... while you're still in it / PETA.
  • Henri of Navarre, King of France shown in four imaginary poses. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • A governess concealed in a niche in order to eavesdrop a conversation is discovered when she causes a coat of armour to fall loudly to the floor. Engraving, 1821.
  • The execution of the Inca Emperor Atahuallpa on the stake, ordered by Pizarro. Line engraving with etching after E. Chappel.
  • Cain bends over the dead Abel; Cain flees in the background. Etching by F. Hortemels, 1729, after A. Sacchi.
  • Henri of Navarre, King of France shown in four imaginary poses. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Rama and his mother with a parrot. Chromolithograph, 1867.
  • Benjamin Franklin. Colour aquatint by P. M. Alix, 1791, after C. P. A. van Loo.
  • Benjamin Franklin. Colour aquatint by P. M. Alix, 1791, after C. P. A. van Loo.
  • Benjamin Franklin. Colour aquatint by P. M. Alix, 1791, after C. P. A. van Loo.
  • The coming-on of the monsoons;-or-the retreat from Seringapatam.
  • Death approaches a family. Coloured woodcut.
  • A lady, who has her pulse taken by a doctor, has an apparition of death, dressed in cloak and crown, throwing a spear at her. Wood engraving.
  • A lady, who has her pulse taken by a doctor, has an apparition of death, dressed in cloak and crown, throwing a spear at her. Wood engraving.
  • Saint Gothard wearing episcopal dress as bishop of Hildesheim; church in the background, with roundels showing miracles attributed to him. Engraving by G.M. Riva, 17--.
  • A gouty man startled by death; represented as a skeletal figure wielding an arrow. Mezzotint, 1794.
  • 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 (?).
  • People living with the threat of avalanches; representing Winter. Etching.
  • 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.
  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1735.
  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1763.
  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1763.
  • The first stone and inlaid coins of Holloway prison. Lithograph by C.M. Firth.
  • A figure composed of barrels batters the drooping head of a thistle; representing the forced resignation of Lord Melville following implications of malversation and the vote on Whitbread's motion. Aquatint by J. Sayer, 1805.
  • Two young children hide as two adults come into the room where the children have been playing with their precious antiques. Engraving by T.A. Dean after J. Jenkins.
  • Two young children hide as two adults come into the room where the children have been playing with their precious antiques. Engraving by T.A. Dean after J. Jenkins.