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  • The Chevalier D'Eon meets bankers in a London office or coffee-house to discuss wagers placed on whether D'Eon was a man or a woman. Engraving, 1771.
  • Birkbeck, T. B.
  • Tunbridge Wells, Kent: visitors to the wells and characters of the town in August 1748. Etching after T. Loggon, 1804.
  • Tunbridge Wells, Kent: important figures of the town. Etching by E.F. Finden.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Samuel Wilberforce. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1871.
  • Samuel Wilberforce. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1871.
  • The distressed poet is visited in his abode by an angry milkmaid collecting outstanding money. Engraving by W. Hogarth.
  • 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.
  • Chinese charm to accelerate labour
  • King Charles I. Engraving by W. Marshall, 1649.
  • King Charles I. Engraving by W. Marshall, 1649.
  • A blue mask hangs from a door knob with the message 'Unmask AIDS'. Colour lithograph by Lin Renninger and Kristina Von Rubens, 1988.
  • Head of an angel. Drawing, c. 1791, after Raphael.
  • A man in a gown and a mortar board is seated on a chair, carried above the heads of the crowd by men who are in turn standing on the heads of men also wearing academic dress. Lithograph.
  • Phrenological head of Lord Ellenborough as Governor General of India 1841-1844. Lithograph, ca. 1844.
  • Phrenological head of Lord Ellenborough as Governor General of India 1841-1844. Lithograph, ca. 1844.
  • Phrenological head of Lord Ellenborough as Governor General of India 1841-1844. Lithograph, ca. 1844.
  • Phrenological head of Lord Ellenborough as Governor General of India 1841-1844. Lithograph, ca. 1844.
  • Three witches with a cat, a dog and a bird. Engraving, ca. 1800, after a woodcut, 1619.
  • A day in the life of George, Prince Regent, 1814. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
  • A day in the life of George, Prince Regent, 1814. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
  • Anglo-Egyptian War, 1882: the execution of an Egyptian fighter by a British firing squad in Alexandria. Wood engraving after M. Prior, 1882.
  • A notice advertising himself by Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic man. Etching, 1837, in facsimile of a printed notice, 1716.
  • Mr. Lambkin on his knees begging forgiveness from his loved one. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Boer War: a nurse helping invalids to an ambulance for transfer to Maritzburg from Ladysmith. Process print after a drawing by F. Dadd after W.T. Maud.
  • The pain of it all, emotional cancer journey, artwork
  • A piece of small intestine showing typhoid lesions: two figures. Watercolour.
  • A piece of small intestine showing typhoid lesions: two figures. Watercolour.