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  • A nervous elderly lady in a dental surgery clutching her bag and looking suspiciously at the dentist. Pen drawing by S. Wood.
  • A woman takes a large plum pudding in a cloth bag off a hot stove in a kitchen. Etching by R. Seymour.
  • Judith puts the head of Holofernes in a bag held by her servant. Lithograph by J.N. Strixner after A. Mantegna, 1811.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated patient while a woman steals from his bag. Etching by J.J. van Vliet.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a seated patient while a woman steals from his bag. Watercolour after J.J. van Vliet.
  • A woman perfume-seller holds a small lavender bag up to her face. Coloured lithograph by Joséphine-Clémence Formentin after Charles Philipon, 1828.
  • A young woman guiding a blind bag-piper over a bridge in Scotland. Stipple engraving by S.W. Reynolds, 1848, after F. Tayler.
  • Two sheepdogs resting in the mountains next to a bag and a walking stick. Colour line block after a drawing by F. Tayler.
  • A man attempting to embrace a young woman, a dog biting his bag; a guard holding a sword in the background. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • A silver condom packet emerging out of a small white bag attached to a key ring with the comment that your condom is safe with your keys; the bag bears an illustration of a running condom holding an umbrella; an advertisement for safe sex by the Ministère de la Santé in association with World AIDS Day 1996. Colour lithograph.
  • Thomas Dromgoole speaking at a meeting of the Catholic Board in Dublin; represented as Doctor Drum "letting the cat out of the bag". Coloured etching, 1813.
  • Supply the bearer of this ticket (not transferable) with a bag of coals, value one shilling, or with one shilling's worth of groceries or flour / H.S. Thompson.
  • Supply the bearer of this ticket (not transferable) with a bag of coals, value one shilling, or with one shilling's worth of groceries or flour / H.S. Thompson.
  • An Indian man wearing a Parsi string and make-up, squatting on a rug with his hand in a rosary bag, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Two Indian men: (left) seated, cutting green produce to shape, and (right) carrying a red bag and two bottles of fluid (ink? dye?). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Inside the fox's abode, the old fox is stuffing a hare's head into a bag while the female fox is entertaining the young. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.
  • A skeleton dressed as a gentleman holding a letter and a bag which identify him as a door-to-door salesman of poor-quality drugs. Lithograph by L. Crusius, 1899.
  • An American physician of the late nineteenth century, with his doctor's bag and horse and buggy; advertising the medicine "Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery". Colour lithograph by E.C. Pease, 1910.
  • Get your free 24s bulk condom and lube bag : available in local gay bars, GU clinics, gay youth projects & participating local agencies / GMP, West London Gay men's Project.
  • Get your free 24s bulk condom and lube bag : available in local gay bars, GU clinics, gay youth projects & participating local agencies / GMP, West London Gay men's Project.
  • Alchemy: a workshop with furnaces and apparatus, the alchemist in the foreground tying up a leather bag. Watercolour, 1934, by V. Kaliba after K. Stapfer after a 17th century MS.
  • 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.
  • An education official about to conduct school entrance examinations; carrying a folded writing table, a sealed bag containing examination questions and a covered wicker basket. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
  • A woman is sitting in a kitchen looking closely at a coin in her hand while a bag of money sits on the table. Engraving by D. Sornique after F.A. Kraus.
  • The hand of a woman pointing to a blood bag that has been tested for HIV representing a warning about the dangers of donating contaminated blood and AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • An arm bearing a heart plaster and holding a bag of blood and syringes wrapped in yellow ribbon: appeal for blood donors in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A banana enclosed in a transparent bag representing an analogy with condoms and sexual protection as an AIDS prevention advertisement by AIDS Concern, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph by John Clang Photography, ca. 1997.
  • A man dressed in a white vest, scarf and pilot goggles with his arms raised over his shoulder to carry a bag; representing an advert for Body Positive for men with HIV. Colour lithograph.
  • A dripping blood transfusion bag with the warning 'ensure it is AIDS free' and a pink ticket bearing the lettering 'Certified HIV free'; an advertisement issued by Ortho Diagnostic Systems. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • D. Bagster Wilson. Photograph by Basil.