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  • A barber shaving a man in a candlelit bedroom. Engraving by T. Hosemann.
  • A new-born baby being baptised by a midwife in the mother's bedroom. Etching by B. Picart.
  • A Japanese erotic scene of a man propositioning a woman for sex in a bedroom. Ceramic tile by Japanese craftsman.
  • A Japanese erotic scene of a man and a woman having sexual intercourse in a bedroom. Ceramic tile by Japanese craftsman.
  • Two hunters with hounds have entered a bedroom to summon another hunter whose wife does not want him to leave. Mezzotint, 17--.
  • A bedroom in a palace: a queen or noblewoman is sitting at a dressing table being dressed by her maids. Engraving, 18--.
  • A Japanese erotic scene of a man and a woman about to have sexual intercourse in a bedroom. Ceramic tile by Japanese craftsman.
  • Two physicians outside the bedroom of a desperately sick man: each physician invites the other to enter first. Coloured lithograph by J.B., 18--.
  • A bedroom in which a woman and a man in silhouette face each other with arms engaged; an advertisement for the Brent HIV centre. Lithograph.
  • A bedroom in which a woman stands with her hand touching the chest of a man in silhouette; an advertisement for the Brent HIV centre. Lithograph.
  • A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
  • A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
  • Men and women carousing in a stately bedroom, with accompanying text on the artist. Engraving by J. L. Delignon, late 18th century, after A. Borel after J. B. Weenix.
  • Men and women carousing in a stately bedroom, with accompanying text on the artist. Engraving by J. L. Delignon, late 18th century, after A. Borel after J. B. Weenix.
  • An episode in Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet": the nurse enters Juliet's bedroom to awaken her, but finds her apparently dead. Line engraving by E. Smith after J.M. Wright.
  • A bed with cream linen and a pillow case bearing the words 'SIDA' (AIDS) representing the transmission of AIDS in the bedroom. Colour silk screen print after J. Sterbak, 1993.
  • Count Cenci, drugged in his bedroom, is being murdered by Olimpio Calvetti and Marzio da Fiorani; Beatrice is watching the scene while her stepmother is guarding the door. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • The seizure of Sir George Rumbold by French troops in his bedroom in Hamburg on the night of the 25 October 1804. Line engraving with etching by W.H. Worthington after H. Corbould, 1804.
  • A man is woken by the ghost of a friend calling to him: he crosses his bedroom in a nightshirt and holding a candle, and is annoyed to find it is a cat. Engraving, 1801.
  • A prostitute leading an old man into the bedroom and taking money from him; implying that her services will act like a tonic and preserve his state of health. Coloured etching, 18--, after T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • Stoup of stone with a cross crudely cut on the inside. It is supposed that it is a natural stone adopted for the purpose because of its natural shape, and the cross added, for use in a bedroom.
  • A father with an axe breaking through the door of a teenager's bedroom; representing a parent to whom it is difficult to talk about drugs, but who is not typical of all parents. Colour lithograph for the Drugs Infolijn, 200-.
  • A father with a chainsaw running amok in a teenage boy's bedroom; representing a parent to whom it is difficult to talk about drugs, but who is not typical of all parents. Colour lithograph for the Drugs Infolijn and the Trimbos-instituut, 200-.
  • Dr Richard Price kneeling on a large crown (with a demon on his back) to look through a peep-hole at a group of ruffians ransacking Marie Antoinette's bedroom; representing a speech by Price which allegedly advocated the French Revolution. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1790 (?).
  • Three people praying around the bed of a sick man, one is a priest. Line engraving by I. Taylor.
  • A girl making her confession to a monk from her sick bed. Lithograph by J. Woelfjle, after C. van Beveran.
  • A woman has just died: one man breaks the news to another. Wood engraving.
  • The German Hospital, Dalston: a room for two patients, probably in the new wing (1936). Photograph.
  • A sick man lying in bed is being read to by a young woman, while three others look anxious. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A sick person is being blessed by a priest while a beam of light from the sun shines through the clouds. Line engraving.