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  • Theodora de Verdion, an eccentric teacher of languages, a book seller and collector of medals. Engraving by G. Scott, 1803.
  • An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.
  • An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.
  • Hyde Park, near Kensington Palace: ladies and children drinking from a spring and eating a picnic. Engraving by J. Godby, 1802, after Mary Spilsbury.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: 8.30 am, nurses arrive for work in the rain, then change into their uniforms. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Greenwich, with London in the distance. Engraving.
  • A physician examining the children of a poor Italian family. Lithograph by F. van Loo after E. de Jans.
  • A physician examining the children of a poor Italian family. Lithograph by F. van Loo after E. de Jans.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares to a small group of country people. Engraving by W. French after G. Dou.
  • The talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera) growing by a lakeside in Ceylon. Coloured etching after W. Daniell, c.1827.
  • The blind school, Southwark. Engraving by T. A. Prior, [c.1835], after D. McKewan.
  • Greenwich Hill, with many visitors, London in the distance. Engraving by T. A. Prior.
  • Order form / World AIDS Day Project, National AIDS Trust, Health Education Authority.
  • DUNCAN: Hints to the bearers of walking-stic
  • Amateur actors, some in drag, pose on stage in "Gee-Whizz". Photographic postcard, 1917.
  • Amateur actors, some in drag, pose on stage in "Gee-Whizz". Photographic postcard, 1917.
  • A doctor suggests to an exhausted patient that he commit theft and spend some time locked in a police cell in order to regain his health. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1878.
  • STD/AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda
  • A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
  • A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
  • A red snapper and a mackerel. Watercolour painting on cloth on board by a Chinese artist.
  • Henrik Ibsen. Drawing, ca. 1890.
  • Women swimming in the sea at Brighton. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
  • A man in drag, wearing a large hat and veil, posing in a garden.
  • A man in drag, wearing a large hat and veil, posing in a garden.
  • Fred Spencer in drag. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • A precarious figure on a tightrope, representing statistics of mental illness in the Netherlands for 1980-1996. Colour lithograph for the Trimbos-instituut, 1999.