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  • A hunchback man (Mayeux) follows a young woman paying her unwanted attention. Coloured lithograph by de Delaunois after C.J. Traviès de Villers.
  • A grandmother reads to her granddaughter, but their attention is caught by two kittens playing with a piece of thread. Mezzotint after A. J. Elsley.
  • A medicine seller: shaking a rattle to attract attention, and carrying a notice and a cloth bundle containing drugs. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
  • A medicine seller: shaking a rattle to attract attention, and carrying a notice and a cloth bundle containing drugs. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
  • Outline of a face expressing veneration; profile of a male face expressing veneration or a state of attention. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Frontispiece to an English edition of Charles Le Brun's 'Expressions of the passions of the soul' (left); a face expressing attention. Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • CERMES : Centre de Recherches Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société : à l'attention de : à la part de : 182 Boulevard de la Villette 75019 Paris.
  • CERMES : Centre de Recherches Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société : à l'attention de : à la part de : 182 Boulevard de la Villette 75019 Paris.
  • A man directs the attention of a boy to a Latin inscription on a plinth stating that learning increases natural capability; representing education. Etching by D. Lizars, 1784.
  • The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the part associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with memory for numbers. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
  • The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the part associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with memory for numbers. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
  • The head of a blind man wearing dark glasses, and a hand carrying a white stick on the road; advertising attention to the blind in Germany. Colour lithograph, 199- (?).
  • In a railway station, an elderly golfer is knocked down by a luggage porter whose attention has been distracted by a young woman. Watercolour by G.H. Thompson, ca. 1920.
  • Six faces expressing the human passions: (clockwise from top left) attention, admiration with astonishment, veneration, simple bodily pain, joy with tranquility, and admiration. Coloured etching, c. 1800, after C. Le Brun.
  • Colonel Kirke draws the attention of a distressed young lady to the body of her brother whom he had hanged in an adjoining room. Engraving by F. Deeves after W. Hamilton.
  • A group of people sit at a table with cups and saucers, a man with a bayonet stands to attention and two soldiers, one with a drum, walk towards the table. Aquatint.
  • A man in loin cloth and belt stands to attention, holding a rifle in his right hand, raises it, angled behind his head and lowers it again. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Russo-Japanese War: Red Cross nurses attending war casualties in a Japanese hospital; right, a European (?) man in formal military dress is standing to attention and facing right. Coloured woodcut, ca. 1904.
  • The birth of the Virgin: Saint Anne in bed receiving attention while others attend to the infant Virgin Mary, overlooked by an angel swinging a censer. Engraving by M.A. Raimondi after A. Dürer.
  • Two children are watching a moth hovering over flames, while Penelope, who is accompanied by a stork, encourages them to turn their attention to the Acropolis; representing wisdom as the only lasting good. Colour lithograph.
  • A man in loin cloth and belt stands to attention, a rifle in his right hand, transfers it to his left then holds it at an angle across his torso. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Private : to the trad only : we beg to call your attention to our world-renowned Blood, Cough and Physic Balls, and solicit your orders for same if you have not already tested their merits.
  • Surgeons group around a patient exhibiting an especially dramatic anal fistula; the patient happily thinks to himself that he has never before been the object of such attention. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A man in a loin cloth and belt stands to attention, a rifle in his right hand: he grasps it with his left, raises then lowers it, resting the butt on the ground. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in loin cloth and belt transfers a rifle from his left to his right hand, holds it out in front of him, raises it to his right shoulder and stands to attention. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Let the toddler's first steps -lead to the welfare centre : get expert attention and advice before and after baby comes, advice on feeding -milk or special food, trained nurses who like children, do what the doctor tells you : Norfolk / Ministry of Health.
  • Domestic medicine; or, the family physician; being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases. Chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines / [William Buchan].
  • Domestic medicine; or, the family physician; being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases. Chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines / [William Buchan].
  • Senecio pulcher Hook.&Arn. Asteraceae Distribution: South America. It has not attracted attention as a medicinal or toxic plant but members of the genus Senecio contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids that are toxic to the liver and may cause liver cancer. A traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) product, Qianbai Biyan Pian, contains Senecio scandens which contains the unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids, senecionine and seneciphylline. This is now a banned drug. (Safety of Herbal Medicinal Products, July 2002, Medicines Control Agency). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Senecio pulcher Hook.&Arn. Asteraceae Distribution: South America. It has not attracted attention as a medicinal or toxic plant but members of the genus Senecio contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids that are toxic to the liver and may cause liver cancer. A traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) product, Qianbai Biyan Pian, contains Senecio scandens which contains the unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids, senecionine and seneciphylline. This is now a banned drug. (Safety of Herbal Medicinal Products, July 2002, Medicines Control Agency). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.