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  • A cross amidst trees and flames
  • A man hurtles to earth where strange beasts roam and a man's half-devoured skeleton lies.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing over fifty stone, aged 36. Coloured etching.
  • Daniel Lambert, a very large man. Engraving, 1809.
  • A humorous comparison between the obese Daniel Lambert and Charles James Fox, the politician. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Etching by A. van Assen, 1804, after J. Parry.
  • Daniel Lambert, a very large man. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • A humorous comparison between the obese Daniel Lambert and Charles James Fox, the politician. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • Daniel Lambert, a very large man. Engraving, 1809.
  • A humorous comparison between the obese Daniel Lambert and Charles James Fox, the politician. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing 51 stone. Etching.
  • A dilapidated hay wain, pulled by emaciated donkeys (Mental and Physical Weakness) is driven by a young man (Torpor) and carries two women in rags (Poverty and Humility) while three women (Fragility, Patience and Servitude) accompany the cart; representing the attributes of human existence. Engraving by Cornelis Cort, 1564, after M. van Heemskerck.
  • Top, a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia; centre, a coach on a street in Baltimore; bottom left, slaves waiting to be sold, Virginia; bottom right, a slave playing the flute. Wood engraving after E.C., 1856.
  • Last week of the extraordinary and wonderful Albino Family : white negroes, or moors, from Madagascar, consisting of a husband, wife and child ... : What can they be? ... What is it? ... More wonderful curiosities! The original Siamese twins Chan and Eng ... / P.T. Barnum.
  • Last week of the extraordinary and wonderful Albino Family : white negroes, or moors, from Madagascar, consisting of a husband, wife and child ... : What can they be? ... What is it? ... More wonderful curiosities! The original Siamese twins Chan and Eng ... / P.T. Barnum.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, aged thirty. Stipple engraving by R. Page, 1821.
  • Daniel Lambert contrasted with a thin woman seated on his knee. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf. Wood engraving.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, aged twenty five. Line engraving.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf. Line engraving.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, aged 30. Stipple engraving by R. Page, 1821.
  • A pink triangle against a black backdrop with the words 'Silence=Death' representing an advertisement for the Silence=Death Project used by permission by ACT-UP, The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power. Colour lithograph, 1987.
  • Newly emerging infectious diseases: patients in hospital. Relief print by Eric Avery, 2000.
  • Hieronymi Fabricii ab Aquapendente ... Opera anatomica. De formatu foetu. De formatione ovi & pulli. De locutione, & eius instrumentis. De brutorum loquela. Cum indicibus capitum et rerum notatu dignarum.... Et figuris aeneis / [Fabricius].
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.