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  • A man has separated two boys who were fighting in the playground. Engraving by L. Stocks after W. Mulready.
  • Three boys are fishing in rock pools with a large net. Engraving by J.T. Willmore after W. Collins.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to set light to a funeral pyre, watched by men and boys. Photograph.
  • Three winged boys floating above a reclining boy who holds a platter, with a ewer beside him. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • Ideal Home Exhibition, England, 1920: a rubber baby being used to demonstrate feeding methods, watched by two boys. Photograph, 1920.
  • A choir of three men and two boys singing from a book which is on a lectern. Woodcut, ca. 1500.
  • A choir of three men and two boys singing from a book which is on a lectern. Woodcut, ca. 1500.
  • Men and boys working in a fork-grinding factory in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866.
  • Two boys tease a carnival reveller wearing a grotesque mask, while a third boy blows a horn. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1824.
  • The confirmation ceremony for a group of boys; one of them confuses confirmation with vaccination. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1831.
  • The confirmation ceremony for a group of boys; one of them confuses confirmation with vaccination. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1831.
  • The confirmation ceremony for a group of boys; one of them confuses confirmation with vaccination. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1831.
  • The painter Hugo van der Goes with onlookers and a group of choir boys singing. Wood engraving after E.C. Wauters.
  • A group of man and boys are gathered around a billiard table watching as two people play a game. Coloured lithograph.
  • Four boys and an old man working on the loom. Coloured stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins after A.W. Devis.
  • A boy arrives late into a room where the master and other boys are already present. Engraving by J.T. Smyth after W. Mulready.
  • A child buys eels from a woman with a basket, and three small boys are in a fishing boat with nets. Etching.
  • Two boys hide behind a tree from a woman who is looking for them. Engraving by C.W. Sharpe after W. Mulready.
  • Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Victoria (Australia): the hospital cook and the boys who help him, on the steps of the kitchen cottage. Photograph.
  • A group of boys with a flag and weapons take hold of one boy who is attempting to escape. Lithograph by Thomas Fairland after Robert Farrier.
  • Famine in India: five emaciated children; a girl sitting and four boys lying on a mat. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • Men with two boys attending a demonstration on the anatomy of the horse. Etching with engraving by Prevost after C.F. Sollier, 17--.
  • Famine in India: five emaciated children; a girl sitting and four boys lying on a mat. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • Men with two boys attending a demonstration on the anatomy of the horse. Etching with engraving by Prevost after C.F. Sollier, 17--.
  • A teacher points to a book two boys are reading: National campaign against drug abuse in Kenya. Colour lithograph by NACADA, ca. 2000.
  • Boys with books line up in front of a seated man and other children sit at a table; a woman is seated with a girl in front of her and others sitting with books and sewing. Etching.
  • Rope-making: view of a rope-walk with boys winding ropes (top), details of various weights and a carriage (below). Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Men and boys in an Italian garden preparing the horses and hounds to go hunting. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after C. Parrocel.
  • An elderly man is teaching a group of boys the geography of the world from a globe. Engraving by W.H. Lizars after himself.
  • Assam: boys of the Konyak Naga tribe, showing the effect of tight waist-belts made of cane. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, ca. 1937.