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  • The elaborately dressed rake holds a purse as a man presents him with an invoice; a lace-seller, a fencing master, a violin player, a cocker and a jockey represent the services and pursuits he is engaged in. Engraving by Thomas Bowles, 1735.
  • People playing ancient musical instruments. Etching.
  • A woman plays the harp and sings, but her husband sleeps. Colour process print, 1891, after Thomas Rowlandson.
  • People dancing the tarantella and playing music as an antidote to a tarantula bite. Etching.
  • A figure with an orange beak and a vest bearing the words 'Leo' moving three coloured cups around a green playing board bearing a skull, a pink heart and a clover leaf; an advertisement for the Mainz 'Stop AIDS' Festival on 23 August 1989 at the Kulturzentrum [Mainz], organised by the Landeszentrale für Gesundheitserziehung in Rheinland-Pfalz e.V. Colour lithograph by Klaus.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • A cartoon-figure called 'Leo' juggles a video, a bottle, a condom, a syringe and a pill box while standing on a tight-rope above a crater against a starry night sky; advertising the 2nd 'Stop AIDS' festival in Mainz, 1990. Colour lithograph by Klaus.
  • Saint Cecilia. Line engraving by W. Sharp after Pietro da Cortona.
  • A young man plays a harp and an old man plays a violin as two girls dance under a tree watched by fruit pickers. Etching by John Thompson after D. Maclise.
  • Angels blow trumpets in heaven and fire descends on a river. Woodcut, 16th century.
  • Acoustics: sonic phenomena and musical instruments. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • The Institut National des Aveugles-nés, Paris: interior during the visit of Pope Pius VII. Aquatint with etching by Marlé, 1805.
  • Musurgia universalis sive ars magna consoni et dissoni in X libros digesta / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • The Institut National des Aveugles-nés, Paris: interior during the visit of Pope Pius VII. Aquatint with etching by Marlé, 1805.
  • The birth of Christ among ruins. Engraving by J. Keller after F. Overbeck.
  • Guy's Hospital, Southwark: Christmas entertainments. Process print by Meisenbach after H. Johnson, 1888.
  • A youth with a bugle by a statue; representing genius. Etching by G.B. Castiglione, 1648, after himself.
  • A woman playing the lute; representing music. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • Sarasvati sitting on lotuses plying her vina. Watercolour drawing.
  • Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
  • Dancers possibly Marathas. Gouache drawing.
  • Two dwarfs make tuneless music. Coloured etching by M. Engelbrecht, after 1715.
  • The adoration of the shepherds at the birth of Christ; a shepherd-boy plays a flute. Stipple engraving by J.B. Michel, 1780, after G. Farington after C. Cignani.
  • One figure plays the piano and another the violin: two onlookers stand in the background. Process print after R. Boix.
  • Six examples of "the march of intellect". Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1829.
  • A fund-raising fete in aid of the Hospital for Women, held at Grosvenor House, Park Lane. Wood engraving.
  • The woodwind section of an orchestra: four men playing. Coloured wood engraving after A. Oberländer, 1876.
  • The Virgin Mary with the Christ Child and angels, with Saint Francis, Saint Dominic, Saint Monica and Saint Mary Magdalene. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, 1830, after L. Carracci.
  • Lord Durham plays the organ and J.A. Roebuck pumps the bellows while Queen Victoria and Lord Melbourne listen. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1839.