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  • The Panama Canal: the French Ministry of Justice opens an enquiry into its financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled to Bournemouth to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, simulates illness to avoid extradition to France. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, one of those responsible for its financing, gets on a train to flee France after the collapse of the company. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The Panama Canal: having fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, Dr Cornelius Herz escapes extradition on the ground that he has a terminal illness, and lives happily in Bournemouth for fifteen years. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • A man is leading a woman and her baby on a donkey with their belongings and a flock of sheep, attended by other people. Engraving by P. Laurent after P.J. de Loutherbourg, ca. 1777.
  • The family of Jean Calas sit listening to Alexandre Lavaysse reading a letter from Calas after his execution. Engraving by Peter Gleich after L.C. de Carmontelle.
  • Hospital, Messina, Sicily, Italy: the central square with a numbered key. Tinted etching by J. Deny, 1783.
  • Mr. J.C. Stevens Sales Catalogue, Nov 1906
  • A virtuous Athenian woman pouring incense on to a flaming tripod. Engraving by J.J. Flipart after J.M. Vien.
  • Mr. J.C. Stevens Sales Catalogue, Nov 1906
  • A tiger hunt, showing a dismounted hunter being set-upon by tigers (or leopards?), while his fellow exotically-dressed hunters look on in horror. Engraving by J.J. Flipart, 1773, after F. Boucher.
  • Second Matabele War, Zimbabwe: in the aftermath of an explosion in Bulawayo, the injured are cared for in the street. Halftone by Hentschel after C.J. Staniland after C. E. Fripp, 1896.
  • A family are shelling peas in a barn with old barrels in it. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1760, after J.B. Greuze.
  • A family are shelling peas in a barn with old barrels in it. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1760, after J.B. Greuze.
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  • President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush represented as members of "the Rich White Penis Club", with speech bubbles; anti-government protest about US AIDS policies by Enema Productions. Photocopy.
  • Saint Jerome. Etching by J.J. de Boissieu, 1797.