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  • Death tramples on three female allegorical figures representing sensual pleasures. Pen and ink drawing, ca. 1700.
  • A man cuts his finger with a knife; representing the sense of touch. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.
  • World War I: the German Navy attacking Allied nursing. Coloured chalk drawing by Louis Raemaekers, 1918.
  • A woman with a flower; representing the sense of smell. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.
  • A man with a glass of spirits; representing the sense of taste. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.
  • A man and a woman riding a motorbicycle on a mountain pass, being diverted by Death off the road and into the valley below. Pen and ink drawing, 1929.
  • Four men watch, some holding their noses, as a man vomits; representing the sense of smell. Pen and ink drawing by P. Boone, 1651.
  • World War I: the German Navy attacking Allied nursing. Coloured chalk drawing by Louis Raemaekers, 1918.
  • A seated female figure with bound mouth holding a palette and a mahl stick and supporting an oval male portrait, with a second female figure handing a pair of dividers to a boy, with other boys drawing and supporting a blank sheet. Red chalk drawing.
  • The Dreyfus case: an eagle wearing eyeglasses, representing Alfred Dreyfus, is imprisoned in a cage; men are poking him with their swords. Drawing by A.S. Boyd, ca. 1902.
  • World War I: the German Navy attacking Allied nursing. Coloured chalk drawing by Louis Raemaekers, 1918.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • The family of Laocoön entwined in coils of DNA. Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1990.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.
  • Allegory of water: a woman holding a ship on her shoulders; Moses leading Israelites out of Egypt while Pharaoh and the Egyptians drown. Drawing, ca. 1740.