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  • A body lying in a Graeco-Roman building, surrounded with vessels and sculpted figures. Drawing.
  • Saint Luke. Ink wash drawing.
  • The prophecy of Masuka: an African medicine man or shaman of the Nkose watching the future in a bowl. Painting by Stanley Wood, 1894.
  • A sacred Chinese figure, bald, with abnormally high forehead. Painting by a Chinese painter.
  • Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • A man's body receiving the ministrations of a healer. Drawing attributed to Pieter de Jode I.
  • Tibet: Kamba Bombo warns Sven Hedin not to proceed further south towards Lhasa. Drawing by F.C. Dickinson, 1902, after Sven Hedin.
  • A young physician in military uniform applying an instrument to a woman's neck, while an older man with papers in hand is watching him. Drawing by O. Gerlach.
  • The muscles and tendons of the leg: two figures, including a black chalk sketch of a leg, bent at the knee. Pen and ink, with pink and brown watercolour washes, and black chalk, by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • A reindeer in a landscape. Ink and wash painting on paper.
  • A woman seated on the ground, torchbearer to left, below heads of plague victims. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • A member of the Jenner family. Pencil and wash, 1800/1820?.
  • Seven Chinese warrior figures interacting with a figure in civilian clothes. In wash painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Two Chinese men stand by a shop window while opium smokers sit on the terrace above. Pencil drawing with sepia wash by W. J. Bellairs, 19th century.
  • Bones of the leg and thigh. Drawing, ca. 1800.
  • The muscles and tendons of the leg and the arm (?). Pen and ink, with pink and brown watercolour washes, and black chalk and pencil, by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed to J.B. Jouvenet.
  • A group of trees. Wash drawing.
  • A man with a torch walking alongside a cart of plague victims; a woman is holding a dead child. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • Saint Lucy with her blind mother Eutychia. Ink drawing by Tommaso Minardi.
  • Three women, one of them wielding a syringe approach three apprehensive men. Pen drawing.
  • A man seated holding a child plague victim, a woman is holding back another man. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • Two ducks in a landscape with bamboo. Ink and wash painting.
  • Edward Jenner, dressed in antique robes, vaccinates a baby on its mother's lap, shaded by a tree; around, a cow, cowherd and nurse. Sepia wash drawing, 1820.
  • Anatomical study of the head of Henry Jenkins, aged 169. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Chinese figures inspecting a sheet of paper, with subsidiary figures. Painting by a Chinese painter.
  • Skeletons (of Capuchin friars?) preserved in a crypt. Wash drawing.
  • Kandy, Sri Lanka: the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall at the shrine of the tooth of the Buddha. Gouache by H. M. Paget, 1901, after S.P. Hall.
  • Muscles, bones and blood-vessels (?) of the pelvis. Pen and ink, with pink, yellow and brown watercolour washes, by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • Two fruiting citrus plants, one possibly the seville orange (Citrus aurantium). Wash drawing.