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  • Hamilton Bell carrying a vintner's boy on his back from Edinburgh to Musselburgh, accompanied by John Rae, a pair of fishwives walk in the other direction. Coloured etching by J. Kay, 1792, after himself.
  • A rake, Tom Rakewell, is measured for new clothes while a servant is hanging the room in black to show mourning. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • Wigs classified into five different orders in a parody of the orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1761.
  • Esteban Lamadrid. Photograph.
  • Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.
  • Jewett's farm, where the family were massacred in 1865
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.
  • Cade's rebellion, 1450: Dick the butcher and Smith the weaver seize Emmanuel ("the clerk of Chatham") and threaten to hang him with his pen and inkhorn. Stipple engraving by J. Coles after H.W. Bunbury, 1795.
  • The British military expedition against the Bruges-Ostend canal, 1798: Joseph Jekyll M.P provides two different reports on it by telegraph, using rolled-up newspapers as telescopes. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1798.
  • John Bull being examined by eight doctors representing politicians, who diagnose his illness as cholera. Lithograph, ca. 1832.
  • A nobleman and an alderman sit at a table neggotiating a marriage settlement between the son of the former and the daughter of the latter. Engraving by Louis Gérard Scotin after William Hogarth, 1745.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.
  • Malaya: two seated Malay dignatories, Tengku Zia Uddin and Raja Ismail, surrounded by their staff and Klang Police. Photograph by J. Birch, 1874.
  • The uncovered head of a mummy: showing the head with the outer covering removed and the head with a pledget of tow in the mouth. Lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852.
  • Ladies and gentlemen at Bath brawling over the election of the Master of ceremonies. Engraving, 1769.
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • 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.
  • An exhumed mummy in St. Stephen's Crypt in Westminster. Chalk lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852.