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  • The coffin plates of the Rebel Lords who were executed on Tower Hill in 1746 and 1747. Etching with engraving by W. Wise after R.B. Schnebbelie, 1816.
  • A building flying a pennent from a tower, surrounded by small houses; above, the appearance of three nuns holding rosaries, one of them carrying a cross. Engraving, 16--.
  • A Parsee or Zoroastrian funeral: the body is viewed by a dog, before being exposed on a tower to be eaten by vultures. Engraving after B. Picart, 1727.
  • The beheading of Lords Balmerino and Kilmarnock at Tower Hill, London, in 1746, attended by a large crowd; with portraits of four of the rebel lords. Etching with engraving.
  • Executions of Huguenots after the Huguenot conspiracy of Amboise in 1560: some conspirators are hung by the neck from a tower, others are beheaded. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
  • Astronomy: Galileo, after using the telescope on the bell-tower of St Mark's Square, Venice, demonstrates his findings to the Doge, 1609. Engraving by J. P. Le Bas after himself, 1739.
  • The British Museum at Montague House: (above) the Russell Street facade, and (below) the garden side, with the tower of St George's Church in the background. Engraving after J. Green, 1761.
  • A woman with a key and four books standing in front of a tower with an open loggia in which a man is teaching children; representing Grammar. Engraving after Martin de Vos.
  • Above, the martyr Cuthbert Simpson is tortured on the rack in the Tower of London; below, Roger Holland, a Protestant priest, christens his child secretly in the Protestant faith. Engraving with etching, 1812.
  • Two gay men kiss as they walk beside a river with a church tower beyond; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Wolfang Mudra for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • A cathedral tower, advertising an AIDS benefit performance of T.S. Eliot's 'Murder in the cathedral' in Hong Kong. Colour lithograph by Ulrikka S. Gernes and Dermat Tatlow, ca. 1995, for AIDS Concern.
  • The water tower and bridge in Mannheim enveloped by the AIDS red ribbon with the message 'Solidarity for people living with HIV and AIDS' ; an advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1st December by AIDS-Hilfe Mannheim-Ludwigshafen e.V. Colour lithograph.
  • The Earl of Bute as a Colossus wearing a tartan scarf about his shoulders stands on two stone pedestals before the tower to St James's Palace as William Pitt the Elder, leaning on a crutch, pleads with him from below. Engraving, 1767.
  • Wellingtonia or mammoth tree (Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindley) Bucholz) towering above surrounding forest and person at its base. Coloured lithograph after W.P. Blake, c.1857.
  • A stippled impression of St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna with the tower bearing a pink line-drawn condom; with the statement 'Vienna is the other way'; an advertisement for a gay event from 11 June to 7 July [199-] in Vienna [?] organised by sieben zu eins Kulturkontor. Colour lithograph.
  • The uncovered head of a mummy: showing the head with the outer covering removed and the head with a pledget of tow in the mouth. Lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852.
  • A man and a woman, both wearing highly fashionable attire, standing in front of a dressing table upon which there is a block with a coiffure placed on it; in the background another woman wearing a towering toupée enters through the door. Engraving, c. 1770.
  • HIV testing : free, fast & confidential : it's better to know / Positive East.
  • HIV testing : free, fast & confidential : it's better to know / Positive East.
  • The General Infirmary at Leeds / [Stephen T. Anning] ; foreword by Sir George W. Martin.
  • At the Royal British School Rooms, Harp Alley, Farringdon Street, on Tuesday, 27th of Dec. 1831 at seven o'clock, a scientific lecture on the natural history of animals : ... on Thursday, 29th of Dec. 1831, at seven o'clock, a lecture on astronomy ... / will be delivered by by Mr. Henry Althans.
  • At the Royal British School Rooms, Harp Alley, Farringdon Street, on Tuesday, 27th of Dec. 1831 at seven o'clock, a scientific lecture on the natural history of animals : ... on Thursday, 29th of Dec. 1831, at seven o'clock, a lecture on astronomy ... / will be delivered by by Mr. Henry Althans.
  • Arthur Grayson, dressed as a bride, for "The Jollity Boys". Photographic postcard, 1909.
  • Arthur Grayson, dressed as a bride, for "The Jollity Boys". Photographic postcard, 1909.
  • A man in drag. Photographic postcard by Fred C. Palmer, 190-.
  • A man in drag. Photographic postcard by Fred C. Palmer, 190-.
  • King George III of the United Kingdom. Etching by W. Lowry, 1817, after M.C. Wyatt.
  • Jack Keiling, known as Blind Jack, played the flageolet through his nose. Mezzotint.
  • Your security is in the name : the thoughtful housekeeper will carefully examine the family bread... ask your baker for Brown's DM (Doctors' Manifesto) standard bread... / Charles Brown & Co.
  • Your security is in the name : the thoughtful housekeeper will carefully examine the family bread... ask your baker for Brown's DM (Doctors' Manifesto) standard bread... / Charles Brown & Co.