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  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Human skulls: six examples, showing skulls of different racial types. Engraving by T. Milton, 1807.
  • A young man, seated and unclothed to waist, with his wrists resting on books upon his lap. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, 1864.
  • Members of the Noble Order of Bucks drinking and smoking. Engraving and etching, c. 1756.
  • Months of the year: February, in which people celebrate carnival by over-indulgence, frost-fairs etc. Engraving after P. Stevens II.
  • Sailors preparing for a concert party performance. Coloured process print after H. Gervise, 191-.
  • Sailors preparing for a concert party performance. Coloured process print after H. Gervise, 191-.
  • The game of goose applied to the countries of the world. Engraving by Antoine de Fer after Louis Richer.
  • The game of goose applied to the countries of the world. Engraving by Antoine de Fer after Louis Richer.
  • The game of goose applied to the countries of the world. Engraving by Antoine de Fer after Louis Richer.
  • A gathering at Joshua Reynolds's house: Oliver Goldsmith and Edmund Burke among the company. Stipple engraving by W. Walker, 1848, after J.E. Doyle.
  • Philiates (Filiates), Albania (subsequently Greece): the town and surrounding mountains. Colour lithograph after G.D. Beresford, 1855.
  • A man presenting a votive offering to Saint Fermina as protector of navigators. Oil painting by an Italian painter.
  • Apotheosis of an ecclesiastic. Oil painting.
  • Apotheosis of an ecclesiastic. Oil painting.
  • Apotheosis of an ecclesiastic. Oil painting.
  • Apotheosis of an ecclesiastic. Oil painting.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian dressing a chest wound. Oil painting by Antoine de Favray, 1748.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian dressing a chest wound. Oil painting by Antoine de Favray, 1748.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian dressing a chest wound. Oil painting by Antoine de Favray, 1748.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian dressing a chest wound. Oil painting by Antoine de Favray, 1748.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian dressing a chest wound. Oil painting by Antoine de Favray, 1748.
  • Barbara van Beck. Oil painting, ca. 1650.
  • Barbara van Beck. Oil painting, ca. 1650.
  • Barbara van Beck. Oil painting, ca. 1650.
  • Barbara van Beck. Oil painting, ca. 1650.