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  • Claude Ambroise Seurat, a very thin man. Coloured etching.
  • Madame Tiquet about to be beheaded for murder, 1699. Line engraving with etching by H.R. Cook, 1819, after G. Cruikshank.
  • Bad news for the cocci.
  • Bad news for the cocci.
  • Bad news for the cocci.
  • Bad news for the cocci.
  • Fuck! : He's HIV positive : what do you say? ... / Gay Men Fighting AIDS.
  • Fuck! : He's HIV positive : what do you say? ... / Gay Men Fighting AIDS.
  • The funeral of Tom Moody, a huntsman: members of the hunt cry "View-halloo" and "Tally-ho!" over his grave. Wood engraving after R. Seymour, 1831.
  • Dr. Flannel suggests to a fashionable lady that she wear a flannel petticoat to keep her legs warm. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807?, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Abraham has a nightmarish vision of fire in the darkness. Etching by M. van der Gucht after G. Hoet.
  • A red man shot with a purple arrow to the heart, holding up his hands in pain. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A red man shot with a purple arrow to the heart, holding up his hands in pain. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • An inexperienced student doctor taking the pulse of a patient in his bed. Coloured etching by A.M. Mills, 1806.
  • A wife surprises her husband by showing him evidence of his gambling debts, and reveals that she has covered his debts by betting against him. Stipple engraving by J. Strutt after T. Stothard.
  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1735.
  • Mary (Molly) Blandy, before her execution for poisoning her father. Etching, 1752.
  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1763.
  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1763.
  • The capture of slaves by an African slaver in Africa. Watercolour, 18--.
  • The dissecting room of an anatomist, with a man thought to be dead waking up and sitting up in his coffin. Drawing, 183- (?).
  • The capture of slaves by an African slaver in Africa. Watercolour, 18--.
  • A white man approaches a woman sitting on a bench in a garden, and when she turns her face to him he sees that she is black. Engraving by S. Davenport after R.W. Buss.
  • Murshidabad: monuments in memory of women who had died by sati. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1788.
  • Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.
  • Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.
  • Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.
  • A scene of destruction with an overturned coach, screaming people and a bonfire; representing night. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • Five men beating three women with sticks in Ethiopia. Wood engraving by É. Bayard after G. Lejean, 1867.
  • A young nun digging a grave while another nun sits nearby. Process print after J.E. Millais, 1858-1859.