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  • The horse of Dick Turpin, Black Bess, dies of exhaustion after Turpin tries to escape from his pursuers. Lithograph by W. Clerk, 1839.
  • A robin on a branch of holly. Colour lithograph by Leighton Brothers after H. Weir, 1858.
  • A blackbird and a thrush on a branch of holly. Colour lithograph by Leighton Brothers after H. Weir, 1859.
  • A man consuming many antidotes to the plague during the Great Plague of London. Etching by J. Franklin, 1841.
  • Bishop Charles Mackenzie's grave with the cross placed there by David Livingstone; Europeans and Africans nearby. Anastatic print.
  • Saint Benedict. Anastatic print.
  • A dog with a heavy collar sitting outside a police station. Wood engraving by J. Knight after H. Weir, 1864.
  • Saint Etheldreda (Aethelthryth, Audrey). Anastatic print by H. Watling.
  • The giant Gog extricating the dwarf Xit from a bear in the Lions Tower at the Tower of London, watched by Queen Mary I. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • An alchemist's laboratory: a young man drinks an elixir of life while the alchemist is incapacitated. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.
  • A barber's shop near Lincoln's Inn, London: a man answering an advertisement for the barber's assistant points to the advertisement in The times newspaper. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.
  • People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.
  • The General Lying-in Hospital, York Road, Lambeth. Engraving by J. Shury, 1830, after N. Whittock.
  • The General Lying-in Hospital, York Road, Lambeth. Engraving by J. Shury, 1830, after N. Whittock.
  • Sandow's magazine of physical culture.
  • Sandow's magazine of physical culture.
  • Sandow's magazine of physical culture.
  • Sandow's magazine of physical culture.
  • Sandow's magazine of physical culture.
  • Mortality of the British army at home and abroad, and during the Russian war, as compared with the mortality of the civil population in England.
  • Letter on corpulence / addressed to the public by William Banting.
  • Mortality of the British army at home and abroad, and during the Russian war, as compared with the mortality of the civil population in England.
  • Mortality of the British army at home and abroad, and during the Russian war, as compared with the mortality of the civil population in England.
  • Mortality of the British army at home and abroad, and during the Russian war, as compared with the mortality of the civil population in England.
  • A garden dahlia (Dahlia 'Charles XII'): one large flower. Coloured aquatint by D. Hayes, c. 1840.
  • Three flowers: a carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus) and two large Compositae species. Coloured aquatint by A. Adlard, c. 1838.
  • Poor man's orchid or butterfly flower (Schizanthus pinnatus): flowering stem. Coloured engraving, 1833.
  • A plant (Lisianthus princeps): large single flower and flower cluster. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850.
  • A garden dahlia (Dahlia 'Princess Royal'): one large flower. Coloured aquatint by D. Hayes, c. 1842.
  • Two flowers from different varieties of pelargonium (Pelargonium species). Coloured lithograph.