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  • A boy accompanied by a girl is talking to a gentleman while a woman pushing a pram looks amused as she passes. Wood engraving by Swain after R.B..
  • Boer War: Colonel Baden-Powell inspecting a sick horse at a military camp in Mafeking (Mahikeng). Process print by J.Swain & Son after G. Scott after D. Taylor.
  • A large vehicle (Phoebus's cart), on which is an electrical generator, being pulled along by winged horses with light bulbs on their heads: electricity sweeps all before it. Wood engraving by Swain, 1881, after J. Tenniel.
  • Two boys have caught a cuttlefish and brought it home for their aquarium. The women are shocked, some crabs have escaped from a bucket, one is attacking the dog. Wood engraving by P. Swain.
  • A French supporter of the Paris Commune prefers to throw an incendiary bomb to advance equality, while a British workman prefers to smoke his pipe in the interests of liberty. Wood engraving by J. Swain, ca. 1871, after Sir J. Tenniel.
  • Joe Huggins, condemned for throttling an old gentleman, is stripped to the waist and kneeling before policemen pleading for mercy while the executioner is rolling up the sleeves of his shirt to begin with the flogging. Wood engraving by J. Swain after Sir J. Tenniel, 1872.
  • Boer War: hospital picket on the guard at night. Reproduction of a watercolour.
  • Boer War: ambulance men taking the wounded into hospital at the entrance. Reproduction after a watercolour.
  • Boer War: wounded army officers on the deck of a hospital ship, and a piece from an armoured train. Halftone, c. 1900.
  • Boer War: the work of the Natal volunteer ambulance force. Reproduction after a photograph by A.L. Twite after F. Dadd.
  • Boer War: a nurse helping invalids to an ambulance for transfer to Maritzburg from Ladysmith. Process print after a drawing by F. Dadd after W.T. Maud.
  • A life class in Rome with a model posed as a crucified man with an écorché figure to the left. Drawing by A. Bianchini, 1902.
  • People living with the threat of avalanches; representing Winter. Etching.
  • Bones and muscles of the back of the head and ears. Pencil and watercolour drawing by J.C. Whishaw, 1854.
  • Bones and muscles of the face. Pencil and watercolour drawing by J.C. Whishaw, 1854.
  • A Romany fortune-teller is reading the palm of a young woman suffering unrequited love; two other Romany women are leaning over a fence and children are sitting around a fire. Etching by P.W. Tomkins after H.W. Bunbury, 1791.
  • On farm land, a young man and young woman turn away from each other in a lovers' quarrel. Engraving by R. Wallis after J.C. Hook.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • A love-sick gentleman being advised by another to drink wine: a drinking song. Engraving and etching, 17--.
  • A love-sick gentleman being advised by another to drink wine: a drinking song. Engraving and etching, 17--.