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  • English commerce is shown as a cow milked by the Dutch, the horns sawn off by the Americans and its milk drunk by the French and the Spanish, while an Englishman wrings his hands at this distressing sight. Etching, ca. 1780.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • Henry Addington as a medical practitioner bleeding the exhausted John Bull, assisted by other politicians; representing Britain's strength being sapped by nepotism in politics and by war with Napoleon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.
  • The itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales, A.D. MCLXXXVIII / By Giraldus de Barri; translated into English, and illustrated with views, annotations, and a life of Giraldus, by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, bart.
  • The moon, viewed in oblique sunlight. Stipple engraving, 1806, by J. Russell.
  • The moon, viewed in oblique sunlight. Stipple engraving, 1806, by J. Russell.
  • The moon, viewed in full sunlight. Stipple engraving by J. Russell, 1805.
  • The moon, viewed in full sunlight. Stipple engraving by J. Russell, 1805.
  • The moon, viewed in full sunlight. Stipple engraving by J. Russell, 1805.
  • New College, Belsize, London. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing after B. Sly, 1851.
  • Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature, being the summe and substance of naturall philosophy, methodically digested / First designed by John Wecker and now much augmented and inlarged by Dr. R. Read. [Translated by William Rowland] ; a like work never before in the English tongue.
  • The death of Saint Julian at the monastery of la Trappe. Stipple engraving by F. Haward, 1784, after A. Zucchi.
  • "Doctor Panurgus" curing the folly of his patients by purgative medicines and chemical cures. Line engraving attributed to Michael Droeshout, 16--.
  • Cabala, speculum artis et naturae, in alchymia; exinde, quid, lapis sophorum antiquissimus, rei sit, qui triplex, & tamen simplex lapis existit : Omnia hactenus ex variis etiam scriptis paucis observata, singulis laboriosis amatoribus artis honoris ergò, deo annuente, tam perspicuè ac lucidissimo speculo, proposita, et quatuor aeneis laminis incisis picturis exhibita / Per ignotum, attamen notum, sicuti insignia prima figurae insculpta testantur, nunc è Germanico, Latnio [sic] versa à strenuo sapientiae cultore, et unâ cum praestantissimi cujusdam philosophi diagraphe hujus ipsius argumenti, Roseae Crusis Fraternitati dicata edita. Quò hac in materia amplius nil desideretur.
  • Cabala, speculum artis et naturae, in alchymia; exinde, quid, lapis sophorum antiquissimus, rei sit, qui triplex, & tamen simplex lapis existit : Omnia hactenus ex variis etiam scriptis paucis observata, singulis laboriosis amatoribus artis honoris ergò, deo annuente, tam perspicuè ac lucidissimo speculo, proposita, et quatuor aeneis laminis incisis picturis exhibita / Per ignotum, attamen notum, sicuti insignia prima figurae insculpta testantur, nunc è Germanico, Latnio [sic] versa à strenuo sapientiae cultore, et unâ cum praestantissimi cujusdam philosophi diagraphe hujus ipsius argumenti, Roseae Crusis Fraternitati dicata edita. Quò hac in materia amplius nil desideretur.
  • English courtesans being sold at auction to British and Asian men in a port controlled by the East India Company. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, ca. 1815, after J. Gillray.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child. Lithograph after Bernhardinus Milnet.