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  • Quaker Oats.
  • Sunlight soap : why does a woman look old sooner than a man? / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • Sunlight soap : why does a woman look old sooner than a man? / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • "Little Nickoli" : the smallest comedy mystic man in the world.
  • "Little Nickoli" : the smallest comedy mystic man in the world.
  • A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • A London linen-draper's assistant reveals his true identity: he is not "Horatio Sparkins", an aristocratic man about town, but Mr Smith, an assistant in a down-market shop. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • Three cats performing a song and dance act. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939.
  • Three cats performing a song and dance act. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939.
  • Frederick the Great : the English giant : born at Bayswater, age 19 : Height nearly 8 ft. and still growing. Weight over 22 stone. Can span 8 ft. Biggest hands in the world.
  • Frederick the Great : the English giant : born at Bayswater, age 19 : Height nearly 8 ft. and still growing. Weight over 22 stone. Can span 8 ft. Biggest hands in the world.
  • A tailor and his wife are assisting two men into suits of clothing, although the clothes are ill-fitting. Etching.
  • Tom Ruby being tricked by six friends into thinking he is suffering from the 'sweating sickness', thereby missing his feast. Coloured line engraving, 1799, after Nixon (?).
  • In a room in a cottage, a surgeon about to extract a man's tooth. Oil painting.
  • In a room in a cottage, a surgeon about to extract a man's tooth. Oil painting.
  • In a room in a cottage, a surgeon about to extract a man's tooth. Oil painting.
  • In a room in a cottage, a surgeon about to extract a man's tooth. Oil painting.
  • Edward Bright, a man weighing forty three and a half stone. Line engraving.
  • A bailiff (Mr Fixem, centre) calls on an affluent man (left) to enforce payment of a debt, assisted by his assistant (Bung, right). Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • Lovers sitting in a wood. Colour lithograph, 18--.
  • Lovers sitting in a wood. Colour lithograph, 18--.
  • Nathaniel St André and his wife Elizabeth. Etching by W. Austin, 1773.
  • A barber is asked to shave a man who has no facial hair. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • James Graham and Gustavus Katterfelto in combat using electrotherapy machines as weapons. Etching, 1783.