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  • Four women in a room being blown by the north wind: another is leading a man with a cane out of the door. Coloured etching by J. Gillray.
  • The dance of death. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1808, after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1795/1797.
  • A crowd of people gathered on the quayside to send the Earl of Bute off to London. Etching.
  • Two university teachers walking in a crypt are tripped up and assaulted by students. Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1811.
  • Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.
  • A fat parson with large glass of port in hand is watched by a thin, naked man representing care (worry), and tells him to be gone. Coloured etching after G. Woodward, 1796.
  • John Williams, a bookseller stands in the pillory in the Palace Yard, Westminster, surrounded by a cheering crowd. Engraving with ten verses in five columns below, 1765.
  • Three men carousing beneath a mulberry tree, with verses of a song comparing the life of humans to the life of a tree. Etching after I. Cruikshank, 1808.
  • Two witches tell Macbeth (representing the Earl of Bute) that he will be king and another, holding a noose, says he will be "Knight - the first that ever graced the Scottish annals". Etching, 1762.
  • Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.
  • People living a life of fantasy as a result of being excessively influenced by reading novels. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1800.
  • The dance of death. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1808, after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1795/1797.
  • Caricatures of speculative investment bubbles in Europe in 1720. Engraving.
  • A triumphal procession: the devil leads the Pope as his captive towards hell. Engraving attributed to F. Barlow, 1680.
  • A parson accompanied by two constables on his way to visit prisoners in a parish lockup. Etching, 1778.
  • A young man who walks straight into a butcher delivery boy's meat tray (poking his eye out), while the boy looks the opposite way. Etching by Richard Dighton.
  • Two couples: the young women putting antlers on to the heads of the older men, indicating their cuckoldry. Engraving.
  • A young soldier puts a coin into the hat of a wounded sailor as he knocks to gain entry to a brothel. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1781.
  • The Prince Regent, his head irradiated, opens a bag containing cats; a cat with the head of Lord Eldon leaps on to a rat with the head of Lord Grey. Aquatint, 1811.
  • A family is about to return from their holiday in a London townhouse. Etching by George Cruikshank after S.K.
  • A family is about to return from their holiday in a London townhouse. Etching by George Cruikshank after S.K.
  • Laying a cable on the Atlantic seabed: the crew of the Great Eastern launching a buoy in an attempt to retrieve a lost cable. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker, 1866, after R.C. Dudley.
  • A butcher swinging a string of sausages from a knife rides on the back of a large black boar. Etching, 1774.
  • A physician holds his nose as he examines the faeces of a patient. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Four groups of figures in conversation. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1800.
  • Three women having a discussion in a latrine. Coloured etching, 1801.
  • A man in ragged clothes being bitten by a guard dog at the entrance to a town house; representing the sense of touch. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Four groups of figures in conversation. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1800.
  • A poor depressed man prepares to hang himself in a noose attached to the ceiling. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • A lunatic in a barred cell imagines himself to be a leading actor in a melodrama. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.