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  • Collection des chirurgiens grecs avec dessins attribués au Primatrice.
  • Collection des chirurgiens grecs avec dessins attribués au Primatrice.
  • A Persian surgeon performing an eye operation on a man held by two other men. Painting, ca. 1900.
  • Four Turkish men are reducing a man's dislocated shoulder. Painting, ca. 1900.
  • Two Turkish men are reducing a man's dislocated ankle. Painting, ca. 1900.
  • Alexios Apokaukos. Photograph after a painting.
  • The ashes of Napoleon Bonaparte arriving by ship on French soil. Lithograph by V. Adam.
  • A little girl in Elizabethan costume stands in a room trying to thread a needle. Etching by A. Boulard the younger after Laura Alma Tadema.
  • Throne of Mercy: God the Father, Christ crucified and the Holy Ghost being venerated by angels, Louis I Anjou, King of Sicily and Louis's mother Joan I, Queen of Sicily. Engraving after C. Orimina.
  • The method by which the Jansenist weekly newspaper Les nouvelles ecclésiastiques was distributed in order to evade the interdictions of the French government, 1727. Etching by Aubry, 1790.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares at a country market, assisted by a woman. Colour stipple engraving by L.-M. Bonnet after J.-P. Caresme.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares at a country market, assisted by a woman. Colour stipple engraving by L.-M. Bonnet after J.-P. Caresme.
  • Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.
  • A man (Guillaume le franc-parleur) showing his wife a newborn baby: she is torn between outrage at her husband's supposed infidelity and love for the baby. Engraving by A. Coupé after A. Desenne, 1814, after Étienne Jouy.
  • A man (Guillaume le franc-parleur) showing his wife a newborn baby: she is torn between outrage at her husband's supposed infidelity and love for the baby. Engraving by A. Coupé after A. Desenne, 1814, after Étienne Jouy.
  • Apollo Belvedere. Stipple engraving by G.A. Demarteau after Grangé.
  • A doctor serving in the French Garde Nationale (reserves) feeling the pulse of a frail old man who is seated in an armchair wearing a saucepan on his head. Coloured lithograph by Draner (Jules Renard), 1865.
  • School of Medicine, Paris. Line engraving by L.F. Couché, 1818.
  • Saint Gaetano kneeling in front of an altar, looking up at the Virgin and Child seated on a cloud. Stipple by Augros after C.A. Chasselat, 1830.
  • The funeral service for the Duke of Orleans in Paris in 1842. Lithograph by Courtin and Grenier de Saint Martin, 1842.
  • The exhumed corpse of the French King Henry IV standing bandaged and upright in a coffin in the vaults of the Basilica of Saint-Denis. Line engraving with etching by E. Bovinet, A. Chataigner and T.B. de Jolimont after E.H. Langlois.
  • Bagnères de Bigorre, Pyrenees: view looking along the Rue de l'Horloge to the Tour des Jacobins (tower). Coloured lithograph by J. Jacottet and A. Bayot, 1842.
  • A miller sits on a donkey which is being pulled by the reins and pushed from behind to make it move. Lithograph by S. Baptiste, 1828.
  • An armless veteran of the Hôtel des Invalides is hired as a guide for visitors, in order that he take no money from them. Coloured lithograph by Cham.
  • Les Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrénées, France. Lithograph by J. Jacottet.
  • The busy street in front of the Bath house, Boulogne, France. Coloured lithograph after I.L. Deroy, 1853.
  • A fortune-teller reading the palm of a young woman accompanied by a young man wearing oriental clothes. Etching by I.-S. Helman, 1785, after J.-B. Le Prince.
  • Michael Nostradamus. Line engraving by J. Boulanger after A. L., 1742.
  • Bagnères de Bigorre, France: the Allée des Coustous, approaching Place Lafayette with the church of Saint Vincent on the left. Coloured lithograph by J. Jacottet and A. Bayot, 1842.
  • Cineraria aurita: flowering stem and floral segments. Line engraving by F. Hubert, c. 1788, after P. J. Redouté.