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  • A woman wearing brightly coloured robes and a tasselled head dress. Watercolour by a Chinese artist, ca. 1800.
  • A man hammering metal (?), to make a mirror (?). Watercolour by a Chinese artist, ca. 1800.
  • A woman preparing coloured silk thread (?). Watercolour by a Chinese artist, ca. 1800.
  • A man throwing various magazines onto a bonfire. Line engraving.
  • Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk: young men on the beach at Gorleston Swimming Club. Photographic postcard by Jackson's Faces, 193-.
  • Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk: young men on the beach at Gorleston Swimming Club. Photographic postcard by Jackson's Faces, 193-.
  • A German itinerant medicine vendor on horseback selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, after J. Bertaux, 1776.
  • Private rooms for sight testing and spectacle fitting / Albert Hagon Ltd.
  • A large man carrying a tankard and a wooden half-barrel is singing, representing Jean Ramponneau and his drinking establishment in Paris, Engraving, 1760.
  • Rue du Petit Musc, Paris: street vendors outside a liquor shop;a group of soldiers walk down the street on the left, while a boy wearing clogs sweeps the street. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.
  • A woman falling headfirst through an open cellar-door outside a pharmacy, and a man expressing his concern. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank after G.M. Woodward, 1798.
  • Two drovers walking with their packed mules through a forest at night. Line engraving by J. Couché after a design attributed to A. Allegri, il Correggio.
  • A fat man who carries his stomach on a wheelbarrow is followed to a restaurant by a poor, thin man carrying a basket of food on his head. Etching, 1777.
  • A village barber-surgeon standing in front of his shop, holding a razor and a lancet; in the distance are the village stocks. Coloured etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting attributed to Egbert van Heemskerck III.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting attributed to Egbert van Heemskerck III.
  • An almost deserted street in London in the early morning: a woman serves a man and a boy with a hot drink, and a policeman rests against a bollard. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • Hong Kong [?]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Queens Road, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1869.
  • Queens Road, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1869.
  • A female deity (?), possibly Kuan Yin, Buddhist deity of compassion.
  • A futuristic vision: technology is over-sophisticated, and the masses devote themselves to intellectual pursuits, while the basic needs of society are neglected. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828, after F.A.
  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.