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  • Astronomy: the astronomer Sidrophel, using a telescope, misidentifies a kite as a comet. Etching by W. Hogarth, ca. 1721.
  • A gay man sitting in contemplation at a table with a cup and saucer and tea pot with a message about the scary aspects of sex; advertisement for Auckland's Burnett Centre by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation.
  • Evolution in humans and apes. Colour lithograph, 1952.
  • A deerhound sitting in front of its owner's writing desk. Steel engraving by H. Beckwith after a painting by E. H. Landseer.
  • At a polling booth, reserve voters, consisting of disabled and sick men and others, proceed up the stairs to take oaths; in the background Britannia sits in a coach that has broken down while the coachman and footman play at cards. Engraving by William Hogarth and François Morellon de la Cave, 1758.
  • An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.
  • An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.
  • An osprey flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Two Oxford dons manhandling a woman representing Religion, trying to pull her towards or away from the requirement that Oxford University should have to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. Etching by Athanasius Credo, 1773.
  • A black banjo player with a wooden leg. Photograph, ca. 1865 (?).