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  • A man and a woman about to engage in sexual intercourse; two ladies watching in the background. Etching, ca. 1780.
  • Delightes for ladies, to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories: with beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters / [Sir Hugh Plat].
  • Young ladies in cook's hats are in a kitchen being instructed in the art of cooking. Coloured etching by John Leech.
  • Puir wee Laddie!! : Ma mither winna gie me ony mair Oxo : It makes me grow oot o'ma claes.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. Engraving.
  • A statue of Germania displaying prominent breasts on a war memorial; prim ladies avert their faces in horror. Drawing, ca. 1923.
  • Puir wee Laddie!! : Ma mither winna gie me ony mair Oxo : It makes me grow oot o'ma claes.
  • The martyrdom of two young ladies, Flora and Mary at the hands of the Saracens in Cordoba: one of the ladies is kneeling down, blindfolded, waiting for the executioner to behead her with his scimitar, while the other lady is looking on, restrained by a servant. Etching after D. Dodd.
  • Skeletons approach a group of terrified, fashionably-dressed ladies and summon them to the cemetery. Etching by Lavalée after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • Astronomy: a number of ladies and gentlemen using telescopes and celestial globes, in a landscape of ruined classical architecture. Engraving, [c.1720?].
  • [Leaflet (1855?) advertising appearances by 'Three White Hair'd Ladies' (6' 2") and their 30" tall brother at 13 High Holborn, London].
  • The art of preserving beauty: containing instructions to adorn and embellish the ladies, remove deformities, and preserve health, etc. ... / By a physician.
  • A bearded dandy admiring the ladies through his monocle on 'Buffers Walk' in the public gardens. Coloured wood engraving by W.H. Harrison.
  • A bearded dandy admiring the ladies through his monocle on 'Buffers Walk' in the public gardens. Coloured wood engraving by W.H. Harrison.
  • Hyde Park, near Kensington Palace: ladies and children drinking from a spring and eating a picnic. Engraving by J. Godby, 1802, after Mary Spilsbury.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. Engraving by B. Cole.
  • [Undated handbill (1885?) advertising an appearance by Barnum's Boston Prize ladies (the Sisters Holland?), "weighing together nearly half-a-ton". Printed in Bristol. ].
  • Hyde Park, near Kensington Palace: ladies and children drinking from a spring and eating a picnic. Engraving by J. Godby, 1802, after Mary Spilsbury.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. Engraving by T. Bowles.
  • Signor Sarti's celebrated Florentine anatomical Venus : together with numerous smaller models of speical interest to ladies, showing the marvellous mechanism of the human body.
  • Signor Sarti's celebrated Florentine anatomical Venus : together with numerous smaller models of speical interest to ladies, showing the marvellous mechanism of the human body.
  • Signor Sarti's celebrated Florentine anatomical Venus : together with numerous smaller models of speical interest to ladies, showing the marvellous mechanism of the human body.
  • Carbolic smoke ball, a new American remedy that will positively cure colds, used by innumerable ladies of note, ca. 1892. Wellcome Library no. EPH 299
  • Four elderly ladies sitting around a table gossiping; another woman listens from behind a curtain and looks rather shocked. Etching by George Cruikshank after EHL.
  • Dr. Scott's electric corset : health, strength, comfort, elegance : a great boon to delicate ladies : a beautiful invention ... / the Pall Mall Electric Association.
  • Dr Reynold's Lightening Pills packet. Pills 'free to ladies', for a 'sure and promt cure for all irregularities and all complaints incidental to the female system.'
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: charitable ladies visiting hospital patients with gifts of cigarettes and cakes. Coloured lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Boer War: two aristocratic ladies in the grounds of a large house used as a military hospital at Rondebosch, South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after Duffus Brothers.
  • [Leaflet (1827?) advertising appearances by "Two Chinese ladies" in elaborate national costume, singing and playing traditional Chinese instruments in the Grand Saloon at 94 Pall Mall, London].
  • A man dressed in rags is approaching a party of young ladies and a musician with a cupid scattering flowers over them; illustration for a fable. Etching.