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  • Textiles: various workers laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving by B. Cole, 1753.
  • Bagnigge Wells, London: a family group, the Dumplings, on a day out. Mezzotint.
  • The trunk of an écorché seen from the back. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • Ship-building: detail showing various types of ship, Brig, Billander, Dogger, Galley, Galliot, Schooner, Sloop, Xebec. Engraving by J. Taylor.
  • A Chelsea Pensioner, standing in a landscape: a building, flying the Union flag, behind him. Coloured aquatint, 1813.
  • Johann Jessenius à Jessen, half-length, with his left hand resting on a skull. Line engraving by J. Balzer, 1772 [?], after J. Kleinherdt, 1772.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner with a wooden leg, standing in a landscape, the domes of Greenwich Hospital behind. Coloured aquatint, 1813.
  • M0006918: A doctor visiting his patient
  • A Greenwich pensioner, filling a pipe with tobacco, a tankard of ale at his elbow. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M. W. Sharp.
  • Civil engineering: the Menai suspension bridge. Engraving.
  • A Chelsea Pensioner, wearing a sprig of orange blossom [?] in his buttonhole, sipping a dish of tea. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M. W. Sharp.
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a view of the courtyard. Engraving by B. Cole, 1754 [after P. Fourdrinier, 1742].
  • M0006887: A dentist treating a seated patient outside
  • The Hospital of St. Peter, Wandsworth: bird's-eye view. Lithograph by M. &. N. Hanhart after T. S. Boys, 1849.
  • A plant of the Polygonaceae family, possibly a Rumex: flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • The British Museum: the Arch Room of the library, in the north wing of the museum, west end. Wood engraving, 1851.
  • A plant, possibly a Cassia species: flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • A plant of the Polygonaceae family, possibly a Rumex: flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • Wellcome library: showing museum cases
  • Leaves and single leaflets of a plant, possibly a Cassia species. Watercolour.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a three-quarter view of the Hall. Coloured engraving by J. Storer after F. Nash, 1803.
  • A Chelsea Pensioner, standing, wearing scarlet coat, and tricorn hat with a sprig of oak on it, leaning on a stick and carrying a cylindrical leather satchel, others in the background. Coloured etching by W.H. Pyne, 1805.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a three-quarter view of the Hall. Engraving by J. Storer after F. Nash, 1803.
  • A winged dragon. Woodcut.
  • The British Museum: the Additional Library, in the north wing of the museum, looking from west to east towards the reading rooms. Engraving by Radclyffe after L. Jewitt.
  • A Maori man with a tattoed face. Photograph, 18--.
  • The muscles of the suspended right arm, seen from the front. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • The muscles of the raised left arm and of the upper left shoulder, seen from the front. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • The muscles of the suspended right arm, seen from the front. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • Viscerum, hoc est interiorum corporis humani partium, viva delineatio.