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  • The dance of death: the churchyard debate. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: the antiquary's last will & testament. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Dr. Monro (physician to Bedlam) examining the straight jacketed and dishevelled Charles James Fox; representing the fall of the Coalition. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
  • A doctor prescribing continuation of treatment to his reluctant patient. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1799, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Qui Hi alias Lieutenant Johnny Newcome on his death bed in prison, attended by his mistress and child and the doctor's assistant. Coloured aquatint by Quiz, 1816, after T. Rowlandson.
  • St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • The dance of death: the horse race. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: Tom Higgins. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Sir Joseph Banks chasing the butterfly called the Emperor of Morocco. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson, 1788.
  • Margate, Kent: a woman swimming in the sea; in the background people are looking out to sea from cliffs and a beach. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.
  • The Dance of death: frontispiece. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: death by drowning. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A man cavorting with a young woman, while his recently deceased wife lies in a coffin in the background. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802.
  • The dance of death: the nursery. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • An apothecary praying for a host of illnesses to descend on his customers so that he can make more money. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G.M. Woodward.
  • The dance of death: the family and children. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with other elderly people, taking laughing gas in the house of a tooth-drawer in Paris. Coloured aquatint, 1820.
  • The powers of Europe as alchemists who dissolve the alliance of German princes with Napoleon. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.
  • People watching Richardson's Travelling Theatre on stage. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • An angry doctor in night clothes shouting at an alarmed man. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1774, after H. Wigstead.
  • Two university teachers walking in a crypt are tripped up and assaulted by students. Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1811.
  • Roderick Random's fellow surgeon's mate approaching their new captain for the post of surgeon while docked in Jamaica; the foppish Captain Whiffle has fainted due to Morgan's appearance and odour, his entourage try to revive him with smelling salts and lavender water. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1793, after himself, after T. Smollett, c. 1750.
  • Westminster Abbey: monuments of Sir Isaac Newton and the first Earl of Stanhope. Coloured aquatint by A. Pugin and T. Rowlandson [?] after W. Kent and M. Rysbrack.
  • Franz Joseph Gall leading a discussion on phrenology with five colleagues, among his extensive collection of skulls and model heads. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • The dance of death: the last stage. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A man drinking himself to death; represented by a skeletal death figure above him and bottles scattered all around. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • Fever, represented as a frenzied beast, stands racked in the centre of a room, while a blue monster, representing ague, ensnares his victim by the fireside; a doctor writes prescriptions to the right. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with other elderly people, taking laughing gas in the house of a tooth-drawer in Paris. Coloured aquatint, 1820.
  • The dance of death: the undertaker and the physician. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A doctor with a garland of pill boxes, bottles and a clyster pipe; a publican with pipes, different bottles and a punch bowl. Etching after T. Rowlandson.