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  • Two money-lenders counting their money and keeping their accounts, one wears spectacles. Stipple engraving by T. Cheesman, 1791, after Q. Matsys.
  • L. Desquin. Photogravure.
  • Yves Delage. Photograph.
  • Sir Henry Head. Photograph.
  • Angel Giannì Iglesias. Photograph by Cruces y Cia.
  • Paul Camille Hippolyte Brouardel. Process print after J. Veber.
  • George Rowles. Photograph by Forster.
  • Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. Photograph.
  • A Greenwich pensioner, filling a pipe with tobacco, a tankard of ale at his elbow. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M. W. Sharp.
  • A scholar sits in his study reading beside a globe. Line engraving by V. Denon, 1784, after G. Metsu (?).
  • Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: left, Pensioners in one of the wards, right, inside one of the "cabbins". Wood engravings by M. Jackson, 1865.
  • The old writing master sharpens his pen at the window with his students in the background. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1836, after G. Dou.
  • Sir George Biddell Airy. Photograph by Morgan & Kidd, 1891.
  • An elderly woman reading a novel by the fire asks her maid to change her library books, with a preference for romantic fiction. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • A man with large spectacles is sitting on a seat peering at a man who is approaching him. Etching by Arthur Pond after Annibale Carracci.
  • Yeshaia Leibowitz. Photograph by Grubner.
  • Benjamin Daydon Jackson. Process print after E. Moore.
  • John Halliday Croom. Photograph by A. Swan Watson.
  • John Hill Abram. Photograph by Elliott & Fry, 1934.
  • Ernest Muirhead Little. Photogravure by Lafayette Ltd.
  • Charles Bell. Colour mezzotint by H. Goffey after J. Stevens.
  • Sera da Conegliano. Lithograph by O. Muzzi after C. E. Liverati, 1841.
  • Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow. Photogravure by Meisenbach Riffarth & Co. after G. L. Meyn.
  • Louis Pasteur. Lithograph after P. Petit.
  • Mathias Duval. Process print after J. Veber.
  • Léon Joseph du Cazal. Etching by E. van Muyden.
  • George Giglioli. Photograph by L.J. Bruce-Chwatt.
  • An old man trying on spectacles at a street vendor's optical shop. Woodcut by J. Amman, 1568.
  • A bearded dandy admiring the ladies through his monocle on 'Buffers Walk' in the public gardens. Coloured wood engraving by W.H. Harrison.
  • Sir Henry Hallett Dale, H. Häusler and Dr. Kopera. Photograph, 1953.