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  • The evolution of a barrel and goose into a donkey into a man wearing tails; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • The evolution of a shuttlecock and bats into a sheep into a timid young man, and his hat into a baby into his umbrella; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • The evolution of a monkey into a boy and a balloon into a cage for a parrot; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • The evolution of a dog and bone into a butler bearing a silver serving-dish; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • The evolution of a fox riding a goose into a writer seated at his typewriter (or a pianist?) - which in turn evolves into accordion, bellows, money-bag, and handcuffs; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • The evolution of pieces of pork into a pig into a man seated at his dinner table, his plate and cutlery evolved from a skull and crossbones; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • The evolution of a muzzled bear chained to a post into a thug with a watch and garrotte stick; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • The evolution of a pig into a bull into an imposing man, and a book into an oven dish; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • The Lights of New York City.
  • The dance of death: Death appears to the people in the inn and instigates them, the proletariat, to clear the throne to make way for communism. Drawing by or after E. Ille.
  • A giant holding up a boulder with a landscape on which eleven human figures are dancing and three are sitting with vessels out of which streams of water flow, while around the giant's legs are attacking male figures armed with spears. Etching by M. Klinger, 1912.
  • A giant holding up a boulder with a landscape on which eleven human figures are dancing and three are sitting with vessels out of which streams of water flow, while around the giant's legs are attacking male figures armed with spears. Etching by M. Klinger, 1912.
  • A giant holding up a boulder with a landscape on which eleven human figures are dancing and three are sitting with vessels out of which streams of water flow, while around the giant's legs are attacking male figures armed with spears. Etching by M. Klinger, 1912.
  • Two men apprehending Lord Edward Fitzgerald at gunpoint in his bed chamber for high treason. Line engraving with etching.
  • An organ-grinder is carrying a very large organ down the street as he passes a fellow musician with a much smaller instrument and a monkey; representing evolution by natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • Estampes, affiches, dessins originaux, tableaux / Pierrefort.
  • A water meter introduced by William Siemens and Joseph Adamson, 1851-1867. Photograph, ca. 1936.
  • A man is standing on the banks of a river with a broken fishing line and an escaping fish; he then appears from out of the water with the fish in his arms. Coloured process print after John Leech.
  • A man and woman carrying barrels of water on their heads: Conference on water sanitation for the urban poor in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, 2006.
  • Right, Fūjin, the Japanese wind-god; left, leaves in autumn. Colour woodcut, ca. 1872.
  • Pilgrims making their way to heavenly Jerusalem through a hazardous landscape. Line engraving with etching.
  • Major Murray, having been shot by Mr Roberts in the latter's rooms in London, retaliates by attacking Roberts with a beer bottle. Coloured lithograph, 1861.
  • A group of men of different race stand in a line smiling with their arms around each other; includes a message about the similarities of being gay and mixed race; an advertisement about AIDS prevention by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Friedrich Baumhauer and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • AIDS prevention by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe
  • Darwin and modern science : essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the Origin of species / edited for the Cambridge Philosophical society and the syndics of the University press, by A.C. Seward.
  • Ladies and gentlemen at Bath brawling over the election of the Master of ceremonies. Engraving, 1769.
  • Men attempt to quell the flames of the House of Commons with water piped from fire engines and a rocket attached to a man's back inscribed 'war'. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • Rideau Hall, Ottawa: people using a toboggan slide in the presence of the Marquis of Lorne, governor-general of Canada, and his wife Princess Louise. Wood engraving by H. Harral after S.P. Hall.
  • The Panama Canal: having fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, Dr Cornelius Herz escapes extradition on the ground that he has a terminal illness, and lives happily in Bournemouth for fifteen years. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • François Sigismond Jaccoud. Reproduction of drawing by J. Veber.