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  • A bald-headed Charles James Fox in a wig shop (a dog is attacking his shoe) being shown a wig by the perruquier; to the right Edmund Burke is eavesdropping behind a door. Etching by Wetherell, 1793.
  • A newly-wed couple (Barkis and Clara Peggotty) set off in a cart from the beach, accompanied by David Copperfield and Emily: Mr Peggotty tries to persuade Mrs Gummidge to throw a shoe after them. Etching by Hablot K. Browne, 1849.
  • Lord Goderich shaving, and Lord Howick shoeing, a group of slaves: referring to the abolitionists. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1832.
  • A Scottish musical shoemaker: he sits on a bench and contemplates the sole of a shoe he is holding; on the floor and resting against the bench are a violin, a recorder, and a book of music scores. Etching by Walter Geikie.
  • A shoemaker measures up the feet of a young woman who is sitting on a chair holding a shoe in her hand; they exchange looks as they are watched by a displeased woman (his wife?) who is holding a spoon. Coloured lithograph.
  • The forge of a blacksmith, with a harness and frame for use in the shoeing of horses. Etching by R. Bénard after Harguinier, 1760/1790?.
  • Saint Eligius: he reshoes the hoof of a horse by amputating the hock, shoeing the hoof, and reattaching the limb. Line engraving by "il Buono" (Floriano Dal Buono?).
  • A cross with the horizontal line representing a book bearing 2 impressions of an identical hand wearing a ring; a red shoe above and faded images sewn at the edges including a bike, a crab and an upside down figure feature along the bottom edge; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Ofelia Rodriguez, 1994.
  • Lectures on the elements of farriery: or, the art of horse-shoeing, and on the diseases of the foot. Designed chiefly for the use of the pupils of the Veterinary College, London / By Charles Vial de Sainbel.
  • Anatomy of the horse's foot and neurotomy: six figures including the feet and hooves of a foal, an unshod horse, and the changes in form brought about by shoeing. Coloured engraving attributed to T. Cowan after a drawing attributed to B. Herring, ca. 1860.
  • A soldier stands on a wall as a man cleans his boots. Coloured etching.
  • Indian cobbler and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Astronomy: the Aurora Borealis, with a reindeer-drawn sledge in the foreground. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: visitors at Niagara Falls. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: whirlpools. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: glaciers. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: a volcano in eruption. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: avalanches of mud. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Naval Hospital, Madras, India. Coloured aquatint by Baily, 1811, after J. Inman.
  • Geography: mounds of volcanic dust. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: monsoons at sea, with rain. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: coral reefs, in the tropics. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: men in a large cave, with torches. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: a mirage in a marsh. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: a halo around the sun, at the Pole. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: water spouts at sea, with rain. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: avalanches. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: a table rock. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: birds and animals fleeing a prairie fire. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: a snow bridge formed between two glaciers. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.