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  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is seated on a stool. Coloured pen drawing by A.G., 1821, after J. Gillray, 1796.
  • A woman is playing the harp as she and her male companion sing together, representing a man and a woman in love. Etching by James Gillray.
  • A carriage in Scotland has broken sending the occupants flying in all directions. Etching after J. Gillray, 1805.
  • Fox running out of the House of Commons in the middle of a debate with William Pitt the younger about the Regency crisis: he is excreting as he runs, which refers to a bout of dysentery he caught on route from Bologna. Etching by J. Gillray, 1788.
  • A woman sitting at a dressing table reading a book; behind her a maidservant fluffs up the curls on a wig which she is about to place upon her head. Etching by J. Gillray, 1810, after himself.
  • The wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope to Thomas Taylor, a surgeon-apothecary: the bride is given away by her father Earl Stanhope, while Fox and Sheridan officiate. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • "The monster" (Renwick Williams) attacking a woman with a knife and fork. Etching by J. Gillray, 1790.
  • A man standing by a fire place, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1800.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
  • Britannia as a patient who is in danger of death owing to disagreement between her three doctors over their competing remedies; representing the weakness of Britain during the replacement of Addington by Pitt as Prime Minister and the exclusion of Fox. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804.
  • William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, dispensing Roman Catholic tracts from a balloon to the people of Oxford; representing his installation as Chancellor of Oxford University. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1810.
  • A fat judge pinching and admiring the fat on the side of a fat bullock. Etching by J. Gillray, ca 1802.
  • A tall woman wears short feathers in her headdress and a short woman wears tall feathers in hers. Etching by James Gillray, 1795.
  • A fashionable mother wearing a dress with slits across the breasts in order to feed her baby before she dashes off to the carriage waiting outside. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is seated on a stool. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • A woman taking a large knife and scissors to the corns on her feet. Coloured lithograph after J. Gillray.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A man standing by a fireplace, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching after J. Gillray.
  • Larevellière-Lépeaux sits in a disordered quack doctor's room, in the presence of seven wounded French generals, one of them vomiting; representing French defeats in 1799 and Bonaparte's failed imperial ambitions in the east. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is in such pain that he pulls the tooth-drawer's wig off. Coloured etching after J. Gillray (?).
  • Charles James Fox as a newsboy delivering newspapers to the Treasury, spreading panic and advertising his suitability for a government post. Etching by James Gillray.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Etching, 1835, after J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Dr. John Burges, on tiptoe outside a building in Warwick Lane. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1795.
  • William Pitt the younger as an alchemist using a crown-shaped bellows to blow the flames of a furnace and heat a glass vessel in which the House of Commons is distilled; representing the dissolution of parliament by Pitt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Watercolour after J. Gillray, 1802.
  • A woman in evening dress standing in front of a mirror; to the left a maidservant holds her fan and shawl. Etching by J. Gillray, 1810, after himself.
  • Swearing to the cutting monster - or a scene in Bow Street.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A man standing by a fireplace, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching after J. Gillray.
  • An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured reproduction of an aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.