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  • Saint Louis Bertrand (Luis Beltrán). Wash drawing.
  • John Bastwick. Ink wash drawing attributed to George Perfect Harding, 1801.
  • Human skulls: five figures. Pencil and ink wash, 1780/1830?.
  • Two figures of the human head in profile: (left) écorché, (right) skull. Ink and sepia wash painting by A.V.A., 1860.
  • An itinerant tooth-drawer performing an operation on a struggling male patient. Ink wash drawing after P.A. Wille, 1788.
  • A terrified man realizing he has just contracted the plague, surrounded by a group of people. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • A hookah carrier. Sepia wash drawing by an Indian artist.
  • The muscles, bones and tendons of the lower leg and foot, seen from the front. Pen and ink, with pink and brown watercolour washes, heightened with white, by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • Standing skeleton, seen from the side, resting right elbow on a pedestal, with left hand resting on a skull. Pen and ink wash drawing by J. Mallcott after A. Vesalius, 1796.
  • Christopher Nugent. Wash painting by S. Harding, 1806, after J. Barry, 1772.
  • The muscles and tendons of the lower leg and the foot, with two small sketches of the muscles surrounding the knee. Pen and ink, with pink and brown watercolour washes, by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • Angels playing musical instruments celebrate the ascension of Christ or a saint. Pen and ink drawing attributed to C. Tencalla (Tencala).
  • A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.
  • A sacred Chinese figure, walking on water. Painting by a Chinese painter.
  • The muscles of the arm and hand. Pen and ink, with pink and grey watercolour washes, by C. Landseer after B. Albinus, ca. 1815.
  • The muscles of the arm and hand. Pen and ink, with pink and brown watercolour washes, by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • A barber-surgeon for dogs in Paris. Drawing by L. Choquet, 18--.
  • Boer War: two wounded men, one Boer and one British, playing at cards in a hospital ward as a nurse looks on. Pen and ink drawing by G. B.
  • A man with a wooden leg sings while he is accompanied by a blind man playing the flute and a dog performing on its hind legs. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Skull, pelvic bones and bones of the arm. Drawing, ca. 1800.
  • A young man holding a stylus and a drawing, being shown a drawing of Fame by a female figure personifying Painting. Wash drawing by F. Dekker after G. Reni.
  • An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed to J.B. Jouvenet.
  • An epileptic being restrained by another man is brought before a priest to be blessed. Ink drawing.
  • A prone écorché figure, seen from behind, resting on a table, with the bones and muscles of the trunk, pelvis and thighs indicated, and a sketch of an écorché leg. Pen and ink, with pink and grey watercolour washes, by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • Stephen Jenner seated under a tree, wearing a top-hat, sketching. Pencil, ink and brown wash by S. Jenner.
  • Saint Agatha with her breasts on a charger. Ink drawing by Tommaso Minardi.
  • Temple sculpture: two figures. Wash drawing.
  • Saint John the Evangelist. Ink wash painting.
  • Singapore: a hunting pony being held by a native Malay groom. Wash drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.
  • A religious cholera procession in rural Russia. Pen drawing by I.A. Wladimiroff.