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  • A uniformed British military doctor in front of a Red Cross horse-drawn cart. Chromolithograph, c. 1870.
  • Metemma, Ethiopia: soldiers treating a trooper with severe sunstroke. Gouache by W.S. Paget, 1898, after W.T. Maud.
  • Franco-Prussian War: in the siege of Paris. a surgeon of the Garde Nationale (formerly a professor at the Ecole de Médecine) meets an army surgeon, who is one of his former students. Coloured transfer lithograph by Draner (J. Renard), 1871.
  • Denbigh Hall Bridge carrying the London and Birmingham Railway at Bletchley, Buckinghamshire: soldiers on horseback ride under the bridge as a train passes overhead. Engraving by W. Radclyffe, 1839, after G. Dodgson.
  • Soldiers plundering a convent, killing and raping the men and women that resist them. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The death of Colonel Moorhouse at Bangalore. Engraving by E. Stalker, 1811, after R. Home, 1791.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, aged thirty. Stipple engraving by R. Page, 1821.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf. Wood engraving.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, aged twenty five. Line engraving.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf. Line engraving.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, aged 30. Stipple engraving by R. Page, 1821.
  • Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.
  • Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf. Coloured engraving by J. Stow, 1810, after G.P. Harding after D. Mytens.
  • Attributes of Beg-tse in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Beg-tse in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Beg-tse in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Beg-tse in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • A Flemish smith hammers at a piece of metal on his anvil as he makes suits of armour. Engraving by J. Godfrey, 1854, after H. Leys.
  • A homeless family pulling a covered wagon up a steep mountain side in Tyrol; on the path they pass two priests in cassocks, carrying crosses. Wood engraving, 1879, after M. Schmid.
  • Aldermen of the City of London Corporation represented as Chinese and as monsters in procession to Westminster to protest against the Treaty of Paris, 1763. Etching after J.H. O'Neale, 1763.
  • Electrical appliances exhibited at the 1882 Electrical Exhibition, including chandeliers and the first telegraph instrument. Wood engraving, 1882.
  • People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.