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  • A small boy places his grandfather's wig and hat on his younger sister; the grandfather looks on with amusement. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1824.
  • Antoine, Baron Dubois. Colour mezzotint by J.B. Gautier after L. L. Boilly.
  • Antoine, Baron Dubois. Colour mezzotint by J.B. Gautier after L. L. Boilly.
  • A mermaid, with a measuring scale. Colour mezzotint by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier D'Agoty, 1757.
  • A medical practitioner administers leeches to a patient. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1827.
  • A hairdresser is using curling papers to curl a woman's hair. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly.
  • A man is piercing a girl's ear for an earring. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly, 1824.
  • A woman examines another woman's sore eye, while other women look on. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1823.
  • Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.
  • Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.
  • A group of grimacing men force one of their number to vomit in a bowl. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, 1823.
  • Five people, each exercising one of the five senses. Coloured lithograph by L.-L. Boilly, 1823.
  • Heads of twenty-nine artists. Stipple engraving by A. Clément, 1805, after L.L. Boilly.
  • A group of five heads; three men smoking tobacco and two women taking snuff. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech, c. 1823, after L. Boilly.
  • A group of five heads; three men smoking tobacco and two women taking snuff. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech, c. 1823, after L. Boilly.
  • A group of young, fashionable doctors. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, 1823.
  • A barber shaving a man who looks fearful. Lithograph by L. Boilly, 1823.
  • Two boys tease a carnival reveller wearing a grotesque mask, while a third boy blows a horn. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1824.
  • A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1825.
  • A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1825.
  • Antoine, Baron Dubois. Etching by J. Frémy after L. L. Boilly.
  • A French tavern with men at a table in the open air drinking a toast to good health. Lithograph by F. Noël after L. Boilly, 1826.
  • A half-naked youth offers food to a snake coiled round a tree trunk. Engraving by C.-C. Bervic after J.-F.-L. Mérimée, 1798.
  • A female foetus of six inches in length with over-developed genitals. Engraving by J. Daullé after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • Three figures of foetuses with hermaphroditic genitals. Engraving by J. Daullé after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • Théodore Tronchin. Line engraving by R. Gaillard, 1782, after J.E. Liotard.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a grimacing patient. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a grimacing patient. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly.
  • Claude Deshayes Gendron. Line engraving by J. Daullé, 1787, after H. Rigaud.
  • Jean Paul Marat. Coloured etching by J. L. Copia after J. L. David, [1793].