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  • St George's Fields, Southwark: anti-Catholic rioters in the Gordon riots wielding sticks, displaying banners, and setting buildings on fire. Etching, 1780.
  • King Charles I: after his execution, Britannia points to his elevation into heaven by angels. Etching after J. Vanderbank.
  • Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries meeting at Somerset House, London. Engraving by H. Melville after F.W. Fairholt.
  • Life of Octavia Hill as told in her letters / edited by C. Edmund Maurice.
  • For eczemas in general practice it's a good general practice to prescribe Propaderm - first : Somerset House, Strand.
  • For eczemas in general practice it's a good general practice to prescribe Propaderm - first : Somerset House, Strand.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: male prisoners treading on the boards of a treadmill: in the foreground others sit resting. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1874, after M. Fitzgerald.
  • Greenwich, with London in the distance. Engraving by E. Finden after W. Westall.
  • The London Workhouse: the street and courtyard facades with a pair of medallions. Engraving by T. Dale after R. Schnebbelie, 1819.
  • The London Workhouse: the street and courtyard facades with a pair of medallions. Engraving by T. Dale after R. Schnebbelie, 1819.
  • Major Murray, having been shot by Mr Roberts in the latter's rooms in London, retaliates by attacking Roberts with a beer bottle. Coloured lithograph, 1861.
  • Mr. Nicholson's thousand guinea fete : Cremorne House, King's Road, Chelsea : first day - Monday, July 31st ...
  • The pest house and plague pit, Moorfields, London. Wood engraving.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..
  • A crowd has gathered outside Carlton House in London, as the carriage of Frederick Duke of York passes on its way to the palace; a pickpocket works the crowd. Coloured aquatint.
  • University College Hospital: a sitting room, probably for staff. Photograph.
  • Superintendent Durkin and Inspector Mackenzie enter the rooms of Mr Roberts in London and find him severely wounded after an encounter with Major Murray. Coloured lithograph, 1861.
  • Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the hallway and stairs at ground floor level, showing the vestibule and chairs. Lithograph by C. Hullmandel [1835] after C. J. Richardson.
  • A woman in fine clothes and a large bonnet is invited by a young man to go on a river trip to Richmond-on-Thames. Coloured etching.
  • The boy St Giles, arrested for stealing a hat belonging to the boy St James, is arraigned before the night-constable at Covent Garden watch-house. Etching after John Leech, 1845.
  • Greenwich, with London in the distance. Lithograph by or after W. Westall, 1826.
  • Greenwich, with London in the distance. Lithograph after W. Westall, 1826.
  • Greenwich, with people in the foreground, London in the distance. Lithograph by G. J. Cox after himself.
  • Greenwich, with people in the foreground, London in the distance. Engraving.
  • Greenwich, with London in the distance. Engraving by H. Bond after T. H. Shepherd.
  • Greenwich, with London in the distance. Vignette etching by J. Newman.
  • Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the picture gallery at ground floor level, showing the folding screens. Lithograph, 1830.
  • High Shot House, St. Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex ... / resident medical superintendent: Thelwell Pike.
  • High Shot House, St. Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex ... / resident medical superintendent: Thelwell Pike.
  • High Shot House, St. Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex ... / resident medical superintendent: Thelwell Pike.