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  • 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.
  • John Hunter, father of William and John Hunter. Oil painting by James Hunter.
  • John Hunter, father of William and John Hunter. Oil painting by James Hunter.
  • William Sharp, engraver. Oil painting by G. F. Joseph, ca. 1817.
  • William Sharp, engraver. Oil painting by G. F. Joseph, ca. 1817.
  • A face void of all discernible connection with temperament or expression. Drawing, c. 1792.
  • Sir Alexander Crichton. Oil painting.
  • Sir Alexander Crichton. Oil painting.
  • Dorothea Baillie, sister of William and John Hunter. Oil painting.
  • Dorothea Baillie, sister of William and John Hunter. Oil painting.
  • A man being brought in by boat apparently drowned, his wife and family grieve on the shore. Watercolour by R. Smirke.
  • A man recuperating in bed at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, after resuscitation by W. Hawes and J.C. Lettsom from near drowning. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1787, after R. Smirke.
  • A man recuperating in bed at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, after resuscitation by W. Hawes and J.C. Lettsom from near drowning. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1787, after R. Smirke.
  • A man being brought in by boat apparently drowned, his wife and family grieve on the shore. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1787, after R. Smirke.
  • A man being brought in by boat apparently drowned, his wife and family grieve on the shore. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1787, after R. Smirke.
  • A man being brought in by boat apparently drowned, his wife and family grieve on the shore. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1787, after R. Smirke.
  • A man recuperating in bed at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, after resuscitation by W. Hawes and J.C. Lettsom from near drowning. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1787, after R. Smirke.
  • William Harvey. Oil painting after P. Lely.
  • A scientist, posed with his microscope, in a drawing room setting. Photograph by Elliott and Fry.
  • An episode in Samuel Foote's play The devil upon two sticks: the cobbler Emmanuel Last is examined for entry as a licentiate to the Royal College of Physicians by Dr Hellebore, the president of the college. Mezzotint by J. Finlayson after J. Zoffany, 1769.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: he suffers from toothache. Collotype (?), 1907, after Benozzo Gozzoli.
  • John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) with a copy of his 'Odes' in his pocket, shrinks from an approaching gentleman with a paper labelled 'pension'. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson, ca. 1787.
  • A black man holds a condom between his thumb and finger representing an advertisement for an exhibition on The Art of AIDS Education at Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Massachusetts between April 6 - 20, 1992. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • Muscles of the horse. Engraving by C. Grignion after F. Sartorius for J. Bridges, 1772.