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  • A Brahman. Gouache drawing.
  • A domestics couple of low caste. Gouache drawing.
  • Baths, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Engraving by P.W. Tomkins.
  • A royal sage tells the father of the fishergirl of their marriage. Chromolithograph by R. Varma, 1907.
  • Men of different classes and nationalities smoking in different ways. Coloured lithograph.
  • People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
  • 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.
  • A Jain holding a harness accompanied by his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A man picks up the money spilling from a rich gentleman's pockets. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli (?), c. 1800.
  • A man holding a parrot accompanied by a courtesan. Gouache drawing.
  • A nobleman on horseback. Watercolour drawing.
  • A palanquin bearer and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian cobbler and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A country doctor out in his horse and trap, enquiring how a farm worker has voted. Wood engraving, 1886.
  • An arrangement of different castes including snake charmer, brick-layer, basket-maker, potter and wives. Gouache drawing.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • A physician's wife and family in a carriage drawn by a camel ridden by a servant: suggesting the social importance of the physician, India (?). Coloured lithograph by F. Jones after Captain G.F. Atkinson.
  • Baths, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Engraving by P.W. Tomkins.
  • A member of the Vaishya caste holding a bunch of bananas with his wife holding a betel leaf. Gouache drawing.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • A soldier and his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • A tailor and assistant at work. Gouache drawing.
  • A military couple. Gouache drawing.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • Café Procope, Paris: men and women chatting over drinks. Aquatint.
  • A bangle maker and his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal, 1822.
  • Head servant with his wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • Eighty-four physiognomic caricatures of English eighteenth century types. Etching by I. Cruikshank after G.M. Woodward.