A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.

Hall of Classics (Guozijian), Peking: a triple archway of sculpted marble leading to the hall. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

Three Tibetan anatomical figures. Watercolour, 1904.

A concert hall. Watercolour and crayons by Tomasz Sitkowski, 1976.

Denis Diderot. Line engraving by B. L. Henriquez, 1777, after L. M. Vanloo.

One folded sheet containing the silhouette torso of Michelangelo's David and a list of excuses for not practising safe sex; advertisement by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Larry Stinson and Les Poppas.

A family are shelling peas in a barn with old barrels in it. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1760, after J.B. Greuze.

The assumption of Queen Victoria. Photogravure, 1902, after A. Drummond, 1901.

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