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  • The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is wounded in the thigh. Mezzotint by P. Dawe, 180-, after R. Pollard.
  • Medical facilities available at a modern health centre contrasted with ill health in old-fashioned housing. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
  • Medical facilities available at a modern health centre contrasted with ill health in old-fashioned housing. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
  • A man stands pointing to a large screen, other people are sitting and standing around talking with papers in their hands. Etching.
  • Papaver somniferum seed
  • A fiery demon representing the chaos of the Paris Commune and more generally, the infernal results of the ideals of the French Revolution. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1871.
  • William of Orange, and Mary, his English wife are presented with the English crown by the Marquis of Halifax. Line engraving by J. Parker after J. Northcote, 1790.
  • John Coakley Lettsom, physician, with his family, in the garden of Grove Hill, Camberwell.
  • The assumption of Queen Victoria. Photogravure, 1902, after A. Drummond, 1901.
  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.