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  • Thomas Inglefield, an artist born without limbs. Etching by T. Inglefield, 1787, after C.R. Ryley.
  • Aske's Hospital, Shoreditch, London: the facade. Engraving.
  • A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
  • Saint Christopher. Woodcut attributed to W.Y. Ottley.
  • The diligence of the bees as a model of devout contemplation. Etching.
  • A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.
  • A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.
  • The diligence of the bees as a model of devout contemplation. Etching.
  • Antiochus IV of Syria, sick and injured by a fall from his chariot, dictates his will as surgeons bandage his leg. Etching by N. Hallé, 1738.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child. Lithograph after Bernhardinus Milnet.
  • An itinerant doctor, by a subterfuge, cures an undergraduate hoaxer of his supposed maladies of lying and bad memory. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1807, after G.M. Woodward.
  • An itinerant doctor, by a subterfuge, cures an undergraduate hoaxer of his supposed maladies of lying and bad memory. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1807, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.