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  • Carpenters working in the open air, making woodwork for mills, castles, bridges and ships. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Mills for grinding, and a Chinese man grinding at a muller, above. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1817.
  • Carpentry: a water-driven saw-mill, short section and plan of the water-wheel mechanism. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Thomas Coram, seated at his desk, with a globe on the floor. Engraving by J. Mills after W. Hogarth.
  • Process of producing lead sheet, and section of the rolling-mill used. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Pigments: mills for grinding colours, and a man grinding at a muller, with a ventilator hood above. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.
  • Side elevation (top) and plan (bottom) of a paper mill: both lettered for a key. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1816, after J. Farey the younger.
  • Elevation of a sawmill (top), elevation of a sugar mill (below): both lettered for a key. Engraving by S. Porter, 1806, after J. Farey the younger.
  • Elevation of a iron mill (top), elevation of the equipment for staining papers (bottom): both lettered for a key. Engraving by S. Porter, 1806, after J. Farey the younger.
  • Elevation of a paper mill (top), elevation of the equipment for staining papers (bottom): both lettered for a key. Engraving by S. Porter, 1806, after J. Farey the younger.
  • Three men dance in the street as a crowd gathers on Blackfriars Bridge, London, to celebrate the destruction by fire of Albion Mills. Etching by J. Barlow, 1791, after S. Collings.
  • Catherine II, Czarine of Russia, 1729-1796.
  • Portrait of Peter Collinson, aged 75
  • Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis de Saint-Evremond, a man with an unusual growth on his forehead. Stipple engraving by E. Scriven, 1810, after J. Parmentier.
  • Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington. Stipple engraving by W. Haines, 1810, after Sir P. Lely.
  • Jacob Hall, a tightrope walker. Stipple engraving by E. Scriven, 1810, after J. van Oost.
  • Maximilian Christopher Miller, a giant, aged 59, with three spectators. Engraving after L.P. Boitard, 1733.
  • A winged woman (the genius of literature) presents an elegant couple to the Roman goddess of wisdom, Minerva, above the group appears a triangle (sign of God) surrounded by cherubs, signs of the sciences and the lettering "Literature". Colour stipple engraving by J.W. Chapman after Dodd.
  • Group portrait, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, 1904
  • Photograph London School of Tropical Medicine, 74th Session
  • The wonderful two-headed nightingale : the eighth wonder of the world / Sanger's Royal Amphitheatre.
  • The wonderful two-headed nightingale : "the eighth wonder of the world" / St. James's Great Hall.
  • The wonderful two-headed nightingale : "the eighth wonder of the world" / Horns Assembly Rooms, Kennington.
  • Group portrait, Cambridge University Natural Science Club
  • Cambridge Univeristy Natural Science Club, 1878
  • A section through two different types of windmill. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1816, after J. Farey.
  • A cutaway diagram of the inside of a windmill (top right), and three different kinds of windmill (below) Engraving by W. Lowry, 1819, after J. Farey.
  • Machinery: a steam-driven sugar mill. Coloured drawing, 1823 or 1855.
  • Details of the AIDS Walk New York on 22 May 1994 benefiting Gay Men's Health Crisis. Colour lithograph by Craig Miller, Richard Zeichik and Associates.
  • Heart with a snake-like polyp in the left ventricle: five figures including detail of the polyp and ancient coins(?). Line engraving after E. May, 1798.