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  • Patients in Paris receiving Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy. Coloured etching after C-L. Desrais.
  • A wealthy patient falls over having a tooth extracted with vigour by a fashionable dentist. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Patients in Paris receiving Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy. Coloured etching after C-L. Desrais.
  • Two angry medical practitioners arguing about opposing methods in front of a gouty (?) patient. Coloured engraving, 1787.
  • Royal Hospital, Haslar, near Portsmouth: view from right. Coloured aquatint with etching by J. Wells, 1799, after J. Hall.
  • Royal Hospital, Haslar, near Portsmouth: view from right. Coloured aquatint with etching by J. Wells, 1799, after J. Hall.
  • A tooth-drawer with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury.
  • A tooth-drawer with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Etching after H.W. Bunbury.
  • The Foundling Hospital: the interior of the Court Room, with people in eighteenth-century dress. Wood engraving.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop being attacked by Susannah with a saucepan, while the nurse holds the baby Tristram Shandy. Etching after L. Sterne.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop, with his wig on fire, angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near the wounded baby Tristram Shandy. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1753.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving by Millam, 1823, after T. Bowles, 1753.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1753.
  • Naval hospitals at Plymouth and at Haslar, near Portsmouth: facades and plans. Etching.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving by T. Bowles, 1753.
  • 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.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a three-quarter view of the Chapel looking west, with people in the foreground. Aquatint by T. Malton, 1799.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a three-quarter view of the Hall. Coloured engraving by J. Storer after F. Nash, 1803.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships in the foreground. Engraving by Sutton Nicholls after himself, 1728.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a three-quarter view of the Hall. Engraving by J. Storer after F. Nash, 1803.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving after T. Bowles, 1753.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with many people walking beside the river, and much shipping on it. Engraving by J. Collins.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from Romney Road looking towards the Isle of Dogs, with a ship at the quayside, people in the foreground. Engraving (fragment) by T. Lawranson.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: the interior of the Painted Hall, with many visitors. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after L. H. Michael, 1865.
  • Fisher's Alley (Fisher Lane), near the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with many Pensioners and other people walking. Wood engraving by R. Branston after C. Stanfield.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop with his wig on fire angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near the wounded baby Tristram Shandy. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop with his wig on fire angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near the wounded baby Tristram Shandy. Etching by J. Bretherton, 1773, after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop with his wig on fire angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near the wounded baby Tristram Shandy. Etching by J. Bretherton, 1773, after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
  • A man recuperating in bed at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, after resuscitation by W. Hawes and J.C. Lettsom from near drowning. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1787, after R. Smirke.