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  • A woman misunderstanding instructions about meals and medicine for her husband from the doctor. Reproduction of a drawing after H.M. Brock, 1936.
  • Matthew Manna, a country apothecary outside his shop. Etching by M. Darly, 1773, after R.St. G. Mansergh.
  • People dancing the tarantella and playing music as an antidote to a tarantula bite. Etching.
  • The effects of temperance on a man and his household. Lithograph, c. 1840, after Gunthorp.
  • A woman playing outside with her child, her husband in the background, watching them. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. Ostade, 1679.
  • A country doctor enquiring how a farm worker has voted. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • A girl returns to her family home in the village where her fine clothes and shoes are burnt by her father and she is given a peasant dress to wear. Lithograph by Thos. & Wm. Fairland, 1832, after P.E. Destouches.
  • A health inspector dismayed to discover that a mother thinks her child has been vaccinated because he has been butted by a cow. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1877.
  • Labourers felling trees and moving the trunks on the side of a mountain. Engraving by Giovanni Volpato after Marco Ricci.
  • A girl returns to her family home in the village where her fine clothes and shoes are burnt by her father and she is given a peasant dress to wear. Lithograph by Thos. & Wm. Fairland, 1832, after P.E. Destouches.
  • A man observing his wife breast feed their child. Etching by D. Deuchar.
  • People dancing the tarantella and playing music as an antidote to a tarantula bite. Etching.
  • A woman breast feeding her baby, with a dog sitting next to them in a rural setting. Etching by C. Lewis, 1848, after Sir E. Landseer, 1837.
  • A man observing his wife breast feed their child. Etching by D. Deuchar.
  • A country pedlar selling medicines from a basket. Etching by T. Kitchin after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Rural life: three scenes, including a pedlar, a young farmer's boy with his smock over his arm, and a boy sitting on a gate, talking to a woman. Lithograph, 1848, by M. & N. Hanhart after H. B. Willis.
  • Vaccination: description and vignettes of cow and of a suckling mother. Etching with letterpress by L. Baltard after himself, 18--.
  • Vaccination: description and vignettes of cow and of a suckling mother. Etching with letterpress by L. Baltard after himself, 18--.
  • Vaccination: description and vignettes of cow and of a suckling mother. Etching with letterpress by L. Baltard after himself, 18--.
  • A country blacksmith in his forge extracting a tooth from a woman who is being restrained by her family. Etching.
  • A country blacksmith in his forge extracting a tooth from a woman who is being restrained by her family. Etching.
  • A country blacksmith in his forge extracting a tooth from a woman who is being restrained by her family. Etching.
  • Rural life: seven scenes, including milking, gleaning, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.
  • A country blacksmith in his forge extracting a tooth from a woman who is being restrained and taunted by her family. Coloured mezzotint.
  • A country blacksmith in his forge extracting a tooth from a woman who is being restrained and taunted by her family. Coloured mezzotint.
  • Hops being cut down and harvested: six scenes. Sepia aquatint by W.H. Pyne, ca. 1804.
  • A country doctor out in his horse and trap, enquiring how a farm worker has voted. Wood engraving, 1886.
  • A Japanese fisherman on a lake shore pulling in his nets. Watercolour, c.1860.
  • A Japanese man and child by a village fence. Gouache painting.
  • Two Japanese women sitting by a trough used for grinding corn. Watercolour.