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  • A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
  • A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
  • Engineering: a lock, and a carriage. Engraving by E. Kennion after C. Varley.
  • Women on an island in the Strait of Magellan resisting capture or death at the hands of Dutch pirates under Olivier van Noort, 1598. Engraving by T. Bonnor, 1768.
  • An old woman wearing spectacles picking fleas or lice from a man's hair; behind her stands a man who holds up a jug. Engraving by J. Aliamet after A. van Ostade.
  • An old physician with a clyster attends to one of his patients. Lithograph by L. Morel-Retz.
  • A patient having his teeth drawn by a dentist. Etching.
  • Information on what to do if an HIV test is positive representing one of a series of posters in an advertising campaign about AIDS by the Agence Française Lutte Contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.
  • Salomon de Caus incarcerated in the mental asylum of Bicêtre. Lithograph by Lafosse after J.J. Lecurieux, 1845.
  • Les Eaux-Bonnes, Basses Pyrénées: view from above. Lithograph by E. Ciceri, 1858.
  • Les Eaux-Bonnes, Basses Pyrénées: view from above. Lithograph by E. Ciceri, 1858.
  • 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.
  • A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.
  • A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.
  • Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.
  • A paralysed old man being comforted and nursed by his children. Coloured line engraving by J.J. Flipart, 1767, after J.-B. Greuze.