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  • Two Oxford dons manhandling a woman representing Religion, trying to pull her towards or away from the requirement that Oxford University should have to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. Etching by Athanasius Credo, 1773.
  • A surgeon operates on the eye of an immoral old man, while the efforts of Time and Minerva to cure his inner corruption are rebuffed. Line engraving after O. van Veen, 16--.
  • A man (Choo Yihleang), facing front, with a massive spherical tumour on the right side of his neck. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, 1838.
  • Anti-mal de mer (patented and registered) : the only genuine preventive of sea sickness / introduced by the Pall Mall Electric Association.
  • Different species of cimex, including the bedbug (fig. 1). Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1801.
  • Saint Mark's Square, Venice: two men on horseback are jousting at a tournament before a crowd celebrating the marriage of Jacopo Foscari. Steel engraving by E. Goodall, 1830, after T. Stothard..
  • Baron Spolasco, a survivor of the shipwreck of the Steamer Killarney in 1838. Lithograph, ca. 1840, after a painting by Fabroni, 1830/1840.
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a perspective view looking north-east at the main building, with penitent mothers arriving beside a statue of fortune. Engraving by C. Grignion and P. C. Canot after S. Wale, 1749.
  • Acacia karoo
  • The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • A day in the life of Tsar Alexander I of Russia, in London, 1814. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
  • A day in the life of Tsar Alexander I of Russia, in London, 1814. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
  • A married woman attending a health resort as a cover for a love-affair does not drink the curative water but pours it back into the basin of a fountain. Colour lithograph, 1914.
  • A Chinese man is being led to execution by four men. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A Chinese man being garrotted attached to a cross; two guards watching him. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A Chinese man's head after garrotting exposed in a wooden cage hanging from a pole; his four children standing in front of it. Wood engraving, 1857.