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  • King Shantanu proposes to the low caste fisher girl Satyavatī (Matsyagandha). Chromolithograph after R. Varma.
  • Indian cobbler and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Brahman merchant couple. Watercolour drawing.
  • Parade, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Aquatint.
  • A torch-bearer and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Tunbridge Wells, Kent: the parade and six smaller sketches around the town. Lithograph by G. Barnard.
  • A brass jar worker. Gouache drawing.
  • People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
  • A landowner has an encounter with a family of gipsies on his estate. Mezzotint by H. Quilley, 1836, after C. Hancock.
  • A Paria cook and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A Jain bringing money home to his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Two working-class men wearing top hats and moustaches, imitating the fashions of the upper classes, rejoice in their new-found equality in fashion. Wood engraving after John Leech, 1854.
  • Dr. J. Alibert taking serum from a servant's baby to vaccinate the child of Mme Desbordes-Valmore. Photograph, 1938, of a painting by C. Desbordes, 1822.
  • People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
  • An interior of an affluent apothecary's shop - a wounded young man is being examined. Coloured aquatint attributed to M. Egerton, 1824.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal, 1822.
  • Woodman and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Three dandies smoking and drinking coffee. Lithograph after H. Heath, c. 1840.
  • A soldier complaining of pain in his abdomen to a corporal, the corporal retorts that he has a stomach - only officers have abdomens. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1912.
  • An old woman with a basket in her hand asks a young man for a job for her daughter while blowing smoke from a pipe into his face, much to his disgust. Coloured etching.
  • Collier and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A girl is brought by an old woman to visit her former foster-mother and wet nurse in a cottage. Engraved by E. Mohn after M. Ritscher.
  • Bagnigge Wells, London: a fashionably dressed young couple greeting an acquaintance [an officer?] at a soiree. Mezzotint, 1772, after a painting attributed to J. Sanders.
  • A wealthy hypochondriac having two physicians take his pulse at the same time. Line engraving by H. Bourne after A. Solomon.
  • A medicine vendor selling to a crowd at a fair. Process print after C. Pears, 1912.
  • A physician examining the children of a poor Italian family. Lithograph by F. van Loo after E. de Jans.
  • A cowherd and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A physician informing a young woman and her mother that she is pregnant, a servant is listening at the door. Engraving by T. Holloway.
  • Cotton spinning couple. Watercolour drawing.