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  • A miser looks at his hoard of gold through his spectacles, with six lines of poetry by J. Gay. Stipple engraving by Balston.
  • White jagged lines on a black ground, with green tree trunks; representing a path through a dark forest. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • A snake, dark brown in colour, with black cross-bands and two yellow lines running along the length of the back. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • One plate of an astrolabe. The usual stereographic projection (with unequal hour lines and the 12 astrological houses for latitude 43 degrees ? 40'.
  • Left, red hands with parallel straight and serpentine lines; right, a red excrescence surrounded by a red aureole. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1976.
  • A red face with volutes as eyes and a downturned mouth, overlaid by a red grid of diagonal lines. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1970.
  • The church of St. Bartholomew the Great; interior of the crypt with two lines of long candlesticks in their holders. Photograph by W.F. Taylor.
  • Two balloons in the air over boats in the water to which lines are attached from an anchoring system on the sea bed. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Zaleucus having one of his eyes removed for one of his son's eyes, with six lines of verse by A. Montanus below. Line engraving by H. Quellinus after A. Quellinus.
  • A figure at the centre of a broken wheel entered by multicoloured lines; representing help for AIDS patients in Kiel. Colour lithograph by Behrens und Carow, 199-.
  • Materia medica from a Chinese apothecary's shop: heads and beaks of birds, hoofs and legs of other animals and bears' feet in lines on the ground. Photograph.
  • A snake, slender and dark brown in colour, with pale patches between two white dotted lines, which run along the length of the back. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A snake, slender and brown in colour, with black and tan speckled markings between two blue lines, which run the length of the back. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A glass with a warning that you can't catch AIDS from sharing a drink; advertisement for AIDS information lines by the California Medical Association. Colour lithograph.
  • A glass with a warning that you can't catch AIDS from sharing a drink; advertisement for AIDS information lines by the California Medical Association. Colour lithograph.
  • A blue condom amidst white swirling lines against a grey background; advertising an AIDS prevention action week in Munich. Colour lithograph by Karl Bessinger and Grafix MUC, 1994.
  • The message 'You can prevent AIDS'; advertisement for the AIDS information lines in California by the California State Department of Health and the California Medical Association.Colour lithograph.
  • The message 'You can prevent AIDS'; advertisement for the AIDS information lines in California by the California State Department of Health and the California Medical Association.Colour lithograph.
  • King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra passing though the lines of nurses in St. Paul's Cathedral in June 1903. Ink drawing by A. Kemp Tebby after D. Macpherson, 1903.
  • Four rows of washing lines on which coloured condoms are hung against a black background, advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Marco Pellanda, 1992, for Wizard & Genius-Idealdecor.
  • A heart with lines either side and a pair of lips with a message about how to get information on sexually transmitted diseases; an advertisement by the SOA Stichting, Utrecht.
  • A face drawn in orange, green and yellow lines representing an AIDS awareness advertisement by the National AIDS Programme of Trinidad & Tobago. Colour lithograph by Illya Furlonge-Walker, ca. 1996.
  • The words "Stand together. Walk together" with a repeated list of emergency phone lines representing an advertisement for Gay Pride events in Germany in 1993. Colour lithograph by ComDesign, Berlin, 1993.
  • Multicoloured vertical painted lines with details of 'Das Regenbogenfest' [The Rainbow Festival] on Saturday 9 September 1995 at the Slaughterhouse [in Munich], an event organised by the Munich AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph.
  • A heart with lines either side and a pair of lips with a message about how to get information on sexually transmitted diseases; an advertisement by the SOA Stichting, Utrecht. Colour lithograph.
  • The words "Stand together. Walk together" with a repeated list of emergency phone lines representing an advertisement for Gay Pride events in Germany in 1993. Colour lithograph by ComDesign, Berlin, 1993.
  • Four adults and three children standing in a line; below them are lines of pink and white flowers, above is a blue sky with a red square to the top right corner. Gouache by Sybil Pearsall, 1949.
  • Four adults and three children standing in a line; below them are lines of pink and white flowers, above is a blue sky with a red square to the top right corner. Gouache by Sybil Pearsall, 1949.
  • Silhouette figures standing on a red mound joined by intermittent orange and yellow lines representing an advertisement for 'Living with AIDS' by the Zentrum for AIDS-Arbeit, Augsburg. Colour lithograph by Juliane Stiegele.
  • Study of a horse, side view, with lines of proportion marked and annotated on its body. Photographic reproduction after a pen and ink drawing attributed to A. Verrocchio, original ca. 1470-1488, reproduction, 1880-1920.