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  • Kissing lesbian and gay couples lined up vertically along a pier with the sea either side and a horizon featuring the logo of the Cruzando Fonteras [crossing borders]; an advertisement for the International Week of Gay Liberation in Torremolinos and Malaga from 12th to 28th June [1995?]; coordinated by the Colega Gays y Lesbianas de Andalucía. Colour lithograph by Petí Comití, ca. 1995.
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including a funeral, war, and riotous assembly. Coloured lithograph, [c.1838?].
  • Three officers in the City of London Corporation holding different types of sticks ("characteresticks"): Lord Mayor Crosby with a scourge for wheat-speculators; John Wilkes with a Herculean club for defeating corruption; and and a bull representing Frederick Bull, with the sheriff's staff of office. Engraving after S.L., 1772.
  • A crouching male figure with the words 'oppression' curving around his back and a another male figure raising his arms in the air with words 'liberation' representing an advertisement for Freedom, a safe-sex celebration dance party in aid of AIDS/HIV at The Old 'Star' Building, Christchurch in association with the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Lithograph.
  • A stork impales a frog in a peaceful scene by a river; allegory of freedom. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • Lord North and the Earl of Mansfield stand on a platform addressing a group of distressed patriots beyond which ships of war sail and sink. Engraving, 1776.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • Stove Tenter House with grounds, Dublin, Ireland. Line engraving by B. Brunton, 1818.
  • An obese man exhibiting a placard of himself looking extremely thin, demonstrating the effectiveness of J. Morison's pills. Coloured lithograph.
  • An obese man exhibiting a placard of himself looking extremely thin, demonstrating the effectiveness of J. Morison's pills. Coloured lithograph.
  • King Alfred the Great in military dress is visited in a dream by the goddess of science with stars in her hair, while winged sylphs gambol in the clouds. Etching by J.A. Minasi after B. Pernotin.
  • Many figures including a woman identified as Venus gambling with Cupid, evidence of torture and tumult. Engraving.
  • A woman watching a surgeon approaching a body for an operation; representing a tribute to László Schultheisz on the occasion of his first surgical operation. Pen and ink drawing by Dénes Györgyi, 1918.
  • Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac (1755-1841). Lithograph by Zéphirin-Félix-Jean-Marius Belliard, 1827.
  • John Locke. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper after G.B. Cipriani.
  • A man so engrossed in news of the French Revolution that he unwittingly sets his wig alight with his candle. Etching, 1789.
  • A man so engrossed in news of the French Revolution that he unwittingly sets his wig alight with his candle. Etching, 1789.
  • City of London: map of Coleman Street and the surrounding environs with key. Etching.
  • Prisoners are driven on a cart to the guillotine. Etching by J. Somerville after D.A.M. Raffet.
  • Two young men with bare chests with an American flag wrapped around them, one holds a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Warwick May.
  • A black man is shaking hands with Napoleon III, thanking him ironically for supporting the freedom of slaves. Wood engraving, 1861.
  • Science: a parody frontispiece to the Penny Magazine, with humorous representations of the "March of intellect" movement. Lithograph by G. Davies, 1832, after C.J. Grant.
  • John Locke. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G. B. Cipriani, 1765.
  • John Wallis. Line engraving by G. B. Cipriani.
  • Sir Isaac Newton. Mezzotint by J. MacArdell, 1760, after E. Seeman, 1726.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.