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  • The order of knights under the Augustinian rule. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
  • The order of knights under the Augustinian rule. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
  • The captain's bulletin, in reply to scribblers and meddlers : "Rule a wife and have a wife."
  • The captain's bulletin, in reply to scribblers and meddlers : "Rule a wife and have a wife."
  • A woman holding a compass and a square rule; representing architecture. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • Architecture: an assortment of masons tools, blocks of stone, and a folding rule. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].
  • Suggestions for breakfast : a good breakfast every day is the first rule in the book of health / Ministry of Food.
  • Suggestions for breakfast : a good breakfast every day is the first rule in the book of health / Ministry of Food.
  • Orders, thought meete by Her Maiestie, and her priuie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same. Also, an aduise set downe vpon Her Maiesties expresse commaundement, by the best learned in physicke within this realme, contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines. Without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswell for the preseruation of her good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordring of them after they shalbe infected.
  • Nine men in a public bath; representing the Liberals' rejection of doubts about Home rule for Ireland. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1886.
  • Textiles: a spring pen-holder and parallel rule (above), a rack for stretching woollen fabric (below). Engraving by G. Gladwin after C. Varley.
  • Ruling Board
  • W.E. Gladstone as a quack doctor selling remedies from his caravan; representing his advocacy of the Home Rule Bill in Parliament. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1889.
  • W.E. Gladstone being kicked out by opponents of his Irish Home Rule bill after the failure of the bill on 8 June 1886. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1886.
  • Victorian politicians sympathetic to Irish Home Rule in the guise of Guy Fawkes and his conspirators breaking into the undercroft of the House of Lords. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1887.
  • C.S. Parnell riding a horse called "Home Rule" crashes into the window of a drapery shop in which Queen Victoria is buying textiles. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 2 February 1884.
  • The cascade at Ruel. Etching.
  • The orangerie at Ruel. Etching.
  • A ruler holding court. Gouache drawing.
  • A contrast between the housing conditions of the Irish rural poor and those of the middle-class urban population, envisaged as the result of Home Rule for Ireland. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 17 October 1891.
  • The grotto and cascade at Ruel. Etching.
  • Lord Randolph Churchill, on horseback as a Cavalier general, is leading an army of supporters and stamping on two opponents with his horse; representing Churchill's opposition to Home Rule for Ireland. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 6 March 1886.
  • Two tape measures with the rule pulled out and back to create the effect of 'damning eyes'; a warning about discrimination against workmates with AIDS by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • The ruling passion : Peek, Frean & Co.'s London biscuits.
  • The ruling passion : Peek, Frean & Co.'s London biscuits.
  • A ruler defending a fortress from the invading British. Gouache drawing.
  • A ruler enthroned defending a fortress from the invading British. Gouache drawing.
  • The method of phisick, : containing the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans body from the head to the foote. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our physitions commonly vse at this day ... / By Philip Barrough.
  • The method of phisick : containing the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans body, from the head to the foote. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our phisitions commonly vse at this day ... / By Philip Barrough.
  • A woman enthroned under an oak tree, holding a book, a sword and the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire; next to her is a crown; the whole framed by medallions with portraits of artists; representing the rule of the Holy Roman Empire. Lithograph.