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  • A grimacing invalid seated before a bowl having received an emetic, another man clasps his head compassionately. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A fearful woman (Britannia) is encouraged by three British politicians to resist the invading fleet of France. Coloured etching by J. Gillray after J. Sneyd, 1803.
  • A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A sick man stranded on the toilet after taking a laxative. Coloured etching after J. Gillray after J. Sneyd.
  • A sick man stranded on the toilet after taking a laxative. Coloured etching after J. Gillray after J. Sneyd.
  • An ill man being bled by a surgeon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A grimacing invalid seated before a bowl having received an emetic, another man clasps his head compassionately. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is seated on a stool. Coloured stipple engraving by P. Maguire after J. Gillray, 1796.
  • Two huntsmen in a clearing are surrounded by gypsies who read their palms as a decoy for stealing their belongings. Etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after B. North.
  • A man pulling a peculiar face as he is about to take some medicine. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1801, after J. Gillray.
  • English courtesans being sold at auction to British and Asian men in a port controlled by the East India Company. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, ca. 1815, after J. Gillray.
  • A man and woman dance outside a tavern named after George IV, a man plays a pipe and people sit drinking decorously. Etching by T. Lane (?), 1822, after J. Gillray.
  • A fat man sits at his fireside taking snuff with a smoking pipe and drink by his side. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1822, after J. Gillray.
  • As a woman plays the piano, two string-players, one with a violin and the other with a cello, express dissatisfaction. Etching by J. Gillray, 1800, after B. North.
  • A butcher threatening a doctor with revenge for poisoning his wife. Etching by J. Kent, 1782, after P.V.
  • On a windswept heath, three witches prophesy to an aghast Daniel O' Connell. Coloured lithograph by h.b. (unknown artist), 1843.