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  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • An ancient oak tree. Lithograph by W. Delamotte, 1802.
  • Admiral Lord Nelson's funeral car. Coloured etching with engraving, 1806.
  • Christ on the Cross inside a heart between two inscribed crosses. Woodcut with letterpress.
  • European royals and martial heroes marvel at the sight of the defeated Napoleon Bonaparte standing in a glass bottle in their midst. Coloured etching.
  • Boer War: the "Bourke" Mercantile Boer ambulance camp. Reproduction after a photograph by L. Weinthal.
  • The recruitment and signing up of soldiers outside the town walls. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • King James I of England and VI of Scotland with Charles Prince of Wales. Engraving by W. van de Passe, ca. 1625.
  • King James I of England and VI of Scotland with Charles Prince of Wales. Engraving by W. van de Passe, ca. 1625.
  • The face of a gay man with reasons why he deserves to live; advertisement for Gay Men's Outreach and Education at the Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc. by the Northwest AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph.
  • Aldermen of the City of London Corporation represented as Chinese and as monsters in procession to Westminster to protest against the Treaty of Paris, 1763. Etching after J.H. O'Neale, 1763.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • The brain
  • A farmer, quick to take offense, and his neighbour trying to pacify him; a woman and a dog next to them. Watercolour by S. Jenner, 1867.
  • Time to blow the whistle on animal experiments? / Animal Aid.
  • Time to blow the whistle on animal experiments? / Animal Aid.
  • A spider, annoyed by a swallow which was catching all the flies, plans to catch the swallow in its web, but is shown to be deluded when the swallow carries off both the spider and the web; illustration of a fable. Etching by D. Stoop, 1665.
  • Albert Schweitzer. Oil painting by Helen Kiddall.
  • Albert Schweitzer. Oil painting by Helen Kiddall.
  • Albert Schweitzer. Oil painting by Helen Kiddall.
  • Albert Schweitzer. Oil painting by Helen Kiddall.
  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
  • Evolution of household articles, animals etc. according to Darwin's doctrine. Colour lithographs by Fr. Schmidt, ca. 187-(?).
  • Evolution of household articles, animals etc. according to Darwin's doctrine. Colour lithographs by Fr. Schmidt, ca. 187-(?).
  • Evolution of household articles, animals etc. according to Darwin's doctrine. Colour lithographs by Fr. Schmidt, ca. 187-(?).
  • Evolution of household articles, animals etc. according to Darwin's doctrine. Colour lithographs by Fr. Schmidt, ca. 187-(?).
  • Evolution of household articles, animals etc. according to Darwin's doctrine. Colour lithographs by Fr. Schmidt, ca. 187-(?).
  • Evolution of household articles, animals etc. according to Darwin's doctrine. Colour lithographs by Fr. Schmidt, ca. 187-(?).
  • Evolution of household articles, animals etc. according to Darwin's doctrine. Colour lithographs by Fr. Schmidt, ca. 187-(?).
  • Evolution of household articles, animals etc. according to Darwin's doctrine. Colour lithographs by Fr. Schmidt, ca. 187-(?).