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  • Two men working at looms with an overseer carrying a large stick watching over them. Engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • World War I: wounded sailors watching a play (at Netley Hospital?). Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").
  • Susanna sits on the side of a pool while two men are watching her from behind. Etching and engraving.
  • A dog on a chain is watching a couple of chicks trying to reach his food bowl. Line block.
  • World War I: wounded sailors watching a play (at Netley Hospital?). Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").
  • Crowds of people are watching the horse racing in a large field with marquees in it. Colour process print.
  • Crowds watching horses approach the finishing line of the Derby. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker after G. Doré.
  • People watching flares warning steamboats that they are approaching shallow waters. Chromolithograph by Robert Carrick after J.M.W. Turner.
  • Crowds of people are watching in the streets as a balloon leaves the ground. Coloured etching after Char. de Lovinier.
  • [British charity stamp showing Britannia, supporting a wounded soldier amidst battlefield carnage, watching an approaching, horse-drawn Red Cross ambulance].
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a man's tooth while his friend is watching and enjoying a glass of champagne. Coloured etching.
  • A man and a woman about to engage in sexual intercourse; two ladies watching in the background. Etching, ca. 1780.
  • A naked witch watching a seated monster grabbing a jumping goat by its hind leg. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • A street scene in San Francisco with people watching as cable-drawn tram cars pass on the road. Process print.
  • One boy is blowing bubbles and another bouncing one off his hat, a parrot sits watching on his perch. Etching.
  • Louis Pasteur (left) watching a colleague trephining a chloroformed rabbit during his research on rabies vaccination. Wood engraving (?), 1885.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the infant Christ from the Virgin Mary; three cherubs are watching the scene. Engraving, 1680/1750.
  • Dante and Virgil watching heretics in hell ripping their bodies apart as punishment for schism. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • A father stands watching his children as they decide which plant to buy from the flower seller. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a man's tooth while his friend is watching and enjoying a glass of champagne. Coloured etching.
  • Soldiers standing on moutain crags watching naked people being driven into their shelters in the mountains in the valley. Etching.
  • An operator treating a patient's foot; a crowd of people is gathered around watching the work. Line engraving by P. Quast.
  • A man and a woman are counting their money with Death watching, armed with hourglass and scythe. Mezzotint by I. Meheux.
  • A Chinese man lies on a blanket watching smoke rise from a lamp. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A group of man and boys are gathered around a billiard table watching as two people play a game. Coloured lithograph.
  • The Blessed (subsequently Saint) Francisco Geronimo y Gravina addressing Caterina the prostitute; a crowd is watching. Etching by J. Bedetti, 1790/1830.
  • A man sits at a table under a large umbrella with people watching him as he writes a letter. Wood engraving.
  • An operator treating a patient's foot; a crowd of people is gathered around watching the work. Line engraving by P. Quast.
  • An operator treating a patient's foot; a crowd of people is gathered around watching the work. Line engraving by P. Quast.
  • A man, woman and child are watching as two men unload a block of ice from a wooden crate. Wood engraving.