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  • Aeneas is standing with his father Anchises on his shoulders as he rescues him from the fire of Troy, and he receives the household gods from his wife, Creusa. Engraving by G. Audran after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
  • Treating blankets with insecticide
  • Plague epidemic, Bombay, 1896/7
  • Episodes in the Zulu wars, including a Zulu ceremony, the flogging of a deserter and a Zulu warrior giving himself up to English soldiers. Wood engraving.
  • Vector control: insecticide spraying
  • Vector control: insecticide spraying
  • Leishmaniasis vector control: insecticide spraying
  • Treating blankets with insecticide
  • National week for the promotion of the health of mother and child in Djibouti in 2005. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Santé and Organisation Mondiale de la Santé, 2005.
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
  • Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: a man and a woman with leprosy. Photograph, 1921.
  • MS Thai 3, four leaves
  • A man who has rented a haunted castle is asked to shave the ghost of a deceased barber. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1861.
  • The Virgin of Mariazell protecting sinners, those in sorrow, the ill and disabled. Gouache.
  • Two men carry a sick woman in a chair-carry towards the hospital of Lisbon. Coloured aquatint by H. L'Evêque, 1812.
  • The widow of a murdered French envoy in Rome pleading for her life: a man tells her "We are Romans, we do not kill women". Etching after J.D. Schubert.
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • Magdalen Asylum, Dublin: a collection in the chapel. Pencil drawing attributed to McCain.
  • Your den.
  • Your den.
  • Your den.
  • Your den.
  • Elizabeth Gunning astride a cannon firing by the pen of her mother a blast of forged letters at the facade of Blenheim - which a figure defends with a blast of excrement - the Duchess of Bedford offers her petticoat as cover while General Gunning retreats from the battlefield; representing the Gunning scandal. Etching by J. Gillray, 1791.
  • An autopsy on an investor in the Dutch speculation boom of 1720 reveals that he had died of an excess of air, representing lack of value in the shares. Etching, 1720.
  • An autopsy on an investor in the Dutch speculation boom of 1720 reveals that he had died of an excess of air, representing lack of value in the shares. Etching, 1720.
  • Anglo-Egyptian War, 1882: execution of an arsonist by a British firing squad in Alexandria. Wood engraving after F. Villiers, ca. 1882.
  • Metropolitan Convalescent Hospital, Walton-on-Thames. Coloured wood engraving, 1854, after J. Clarke.
  • Metropolitan Convalescent Hospital, Walton-on-Thames. Coloured wood engraving, 1854, after J. Clarke.
  • Metropolitan Convalescent Hospital, Walton-on-Thames. Coloured wood engraving, 1854, after J. Clarke.