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  • Peruvian bark : a popular account of the introduction of chinchona cultivation into British India, 1860-1880 / by Clements R. Markham.
  • A message about how AIDS spreads with the word 'AIDS' in letters with red blood vessel-like roots; an AIDS prevention advertisement for the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph, ca. December 1993.
  • An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, ca. 1804, after C. Gold.
  • The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan, originally prepared under the authority of the government of India, and reproduced by order of the secretary of state for India in council / edited by J. Forbes Watson and John William Kaye.
  • A busy balling room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • A troupe of nautch dancing girls, standing in a line holding hands, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Phrenological head of Lord Ellenborough as Governor General of India 1841-1844. Lithograph, ca. 1844.
  • Tiger hunting in India: men riding elephants shoot at a tiger that tries to escape by swimming across a river. Watercolour, 18--.
  • A vehicle with wooden wheels pulled by two oxen in India. Etching by T. Wageman after M.-R. de Montalembert.
  • Indian men slaughtering a camel; a sheep being skinned in the background. Watercolour.
  • India: a tomb in Kootub near Delhi. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.
  • A collection of Indian costumes, types and occupations. Gouache paintings by an Indian artist.
  • Fakir's Rock on the river Ganges, near Sultanganj, Bihar: south west view. Coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell, 1800.
  • Dhakate Bajirava Saheb. Coloured lithograph, 1888.
  • Travels in Peru and India : while superintending the collection of chinchona plants and seeds in South America, and their introduction into India / by Clements R. Markham.
  • Sangareddy, Andhra Pradesh, India: people in hospital. Photograph by F.T. Shipham, ca. 1925.
  • A seated barber shaving the back of a man's neck; another customer examines himself in a mirror and an attendant looks on. Coloured aquatint, 1800, after C. Gold.
  • Market scene, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • Man seated in doorway playing the tobri, a wind instrument, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • India: the ruins of Sammy House surrounded by scattered bones of sepoys killed in action. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.
  • India: an ornate doorway and upper balcony, possibly in Delhi. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1860.
  • Astronomy: the open air observatory at Delhi. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1815.
  • An Indian man wearing many beads, and carrying a begging bowl and an umbrella, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Street scene with snake charmers, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • The Chandnee Chouk or market place, Delhi. Coloured lithograph by W. Gauci after Thomas Colman Dibdin after Bacon, 1840.
  • A cowherd (?), carrying a jar on his head; with a woman carrying milk (?). Gouache, 18--.
  • Ruins in the city of Agra, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1787.
  • A ruler enthroned defending a fortress from the invading British. Gouache drawing.
  • India: a ruined mosque near the 'Cusom House' battery. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.
  • A Vaishnavite or bairagi ascetic. Gouache, 18--.