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  • A young woman (Miss Jones) reading. Mezzotint, 17--, after Catherine Read.
  • London, seen from Greenwich. Engraving.
  • London, seen from Greenwich. Engraving, 1770.
  • The Foundling Hospital: the interior of the Court Room, with people in eighteenth-century dress. Wood engraving.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard, with several people. Coloured engraving, 1752.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard, with several people. Coloured engraving, 1752.
  • London, seen from Greenwich. Engraving, 1754.
  • The Physic Garden, Chelsea: men botanizing in the garden, near the statue of Sir Hans Sloane, 1750. Wood engraving by T. W. Lascelles after H. G. Glindoni, 1890.
  • The Physic Garden, Chelsea: men botanizing in the garden, near the statue of Sir Hans Sloane, 1750. Wood engraving by T. W. Lascelles after H. G. Glindoni, 1890.
  • London, seen from Greenwich. Engraving, 1773.
  • London, seen from Greenwich. Engraving, 1754.
  • A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a distant three-quarter view of the Hall and Chapel, looking east, the Infirmary in the foreground left. Coloured drawing by C. White, 1786.
  • Four scenes from W. Combe's verse Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks, a parody of the Royal College of Physicians, and in particular John Fothergill. Engraving after W. Combe.
  • Hyde Park, near Kensington Palace: ladies and children drinking from a spring and eating a picnic. Engraving by J. Godby, 1802, after Mary Spilsbury.
  • London, seen from Greenwich. Engraving.
  • London, seen from Greenwich. Engraving, 1779.
  • Hyde Park, near Kensington Palace: ladies and children drinking from a spring and eating a picnic. Engraving by J. Godby, 1802, after Mary Spilsbury.
  • Directions to diagram of double microscope
  • Directions to diagram of double microscope
  • Four scenes from W. Combe's verse Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks, a parody of the Royal college of physicians and John Fothergill (in particular). Engraving, 1771, after W. Combe.
  • A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria") being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • To be seen at the Black Peruke, facing the mews, Charing-Cross ... : White negress : account of white negroes.
  • A devious itinerant medicine vendor and assistant perform their sales pitch to a suspicious audience, against the backdrop of the Tower of London. Etching, 1792.
  • A devious itinerant medicine vendor and assistant perform their sales pitch to a suspicious audience, against the backdrop of the Tower of London. Etching, 1792.
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard, with many people in the road. Coloured engraving after L. P. Boitard, 1753.
  • Balthasar Bekker and Christian Scriver sieve diseases from devils. Engraving, 1731.
  • A tall woman wears short feathers in her headdress and a short woman wears tall feathers in hers. Etching by James Gillray, 1795.
  • MS Hebrew A5
  • An episode in Samuel Foote's play The devil upon two sticks: the cobbler Emmanuel Last is examined for entry as a licentiate to the Royal College of Physicians by Dr Hellebore, the president of the college. Mezzotint by J. Finlayson after J. Zoffany, 1769.