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  • A drunken husband lies sleeping as his young wife plots furtively with her lover, a foreign soldier. Engraving by A. Capellan after G. B. Piazzetta.
  • A physician trying to take advantage of a young woman patient by visiting her at home while her husband is out. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
  • A man walks arm in arm with a woman while looking back at a prostitute in a check coat; representing the need for prostitutes to use condoms to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph after Ullstein Bilderdienst for Hydra, 199-.
  • A portly, well-to-do physician leaves his house, while his wife cavorts in the window with a young dandy. Lithograph by P. Numa, c. 1832.
  • A man walks arm in arm with a woman while looking back at a prostitute in a check coat; representing the need for prostitutes to use condoms to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph after Ullstein Bilderdienst for Hydra, 199-.
  • A closed red tulip pointing towards an opening lily representing 'Love Question No 159', a warning that you can think what you like about infidelity, but you must think about the consequences of cheating without a condom?; one of a series of safe sex AIDS prevention advertisements by Folkhälsoinstitutet, RFSU and RFSL. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.
  • A woman weeps at her paramour's bed; the doctor puts away his lancet. Coloured lithograph by Joséphine-Clémence Formentin after C. Philipon, ca 1829.
  • A physician beds a young woman; her husband looks on pensively, hoping that the physician will not charge him for this 'operation'. Colour process print after Cuiliale (?), c. 1905.
  • Duphalac : revolutionises the management of constipation.
  • Duphalac : revolutionises the management of constipation.
  • Duphalac : revolutionises the management of constipation.
  • Duphalac : revolutionises the management of constipation.
  • A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.
  • An old man sits with his arm round a girl and plies her with drink as his wife watches through a window. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1747, after D. Teniers.
  • The Green Bag Committee investigating allegations of sedition and unrest. Coloured etching by L. Marks, 1817.
  • Four physiognomies expressing evil characters. Drawing, c. 1792.
  • A man points to a decapitated head lying on the ground as a woman holds him back looking distressed. Engraving by or after A. Casali.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • Interior of the House of Lords during a public inquiry into Queen Caroline in 1820. Stipple engraving by J. G. Murray after J. Stephanoff.
  • A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.
  • A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.
  • A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.
  • A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of sin. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870, after J. Bakewell.
  • A man buried up to his waist holds his hands up above his head: a man and a woman stand on either side watching him in distress. Woodcut, 17--.
  • A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of the base, 'natural' man. Etching, 1771, after J. Bakewell.