Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
102 results
  • Fakir's Rock on the river Ganges, near Sultanganj, Bihar: south west view. Coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell, 1800.
  • Men with clubs break down the door of a London brothel to take their revenge for being robbed. Engraving, ca. 1795.
  • Mademoiselle Hardouin miraculously cured of her paralysis at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
  • Newgate Prison, London: a man's shirt is being laid over his shoulders by a prison warder after he has been flogged by a man with a cat o'nine tails. Wood engraving, 1872.
  • The seven sons of Lara take vengeance on Doña Lambra's servant for insulting Gonzalo Gomez: they kill the servant in front of Doña Lambra and smear her cloak in his blood. Etching by A. Tempesta after O. Vaenius.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting attributed to Egbert van Heemskerck III.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting attributed to Egbert van Heemskerck III.
  • A woman beleaguered by four enemies; representing Faith resisting Death, Schism, the World and the Devil. Engraving by Hieronymus Wierix after Maarten de Vos, 156-.
  • A woman beleaguered by four enemies; representing Faith resisting Death, Schism, the World and the Devil. Engraving by Hieronymus Wierix after Maarten de Vos, 156-.
  • A man with his mouth open in terror. Lithograph by P. Simonau, 1822, after C. Le Brun.
  • A Chinese apothecary carrying medicines in a basket. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley after Pu-Quà, 1799.
  • A father has died and is mourned by his wife and children, as his eldest son returns from the wars, distraught by his arrival too late to see his father alive. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1781, after J.B. Greuze.