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  • Peter, the wild boy, as an older man. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • A surgeon performing a suprapubic lithotomy on a boy. Lithograph by R. Lemoine, 1899.
  • A surgeon performing a suprapubic lithotomy on a boy. Lithograph by R. Lemoine, 1899.
  • A boy appearing to two girls as a ghost. Stipple engraving after R. Westall.
  • George Alexander (Gratton), a black boy with white markings. Engraving by P.R. Cooper, 1809, after D. Orme.
  • Taiyota, a boy from Otaheite (Tahiti), playing the nose-flute. Etching by R.B. Godfrey, 1773, after S. Parkinson.
  • A woman teaches religion to a boy, while his sister plays with their dog. Stipple engraving after R. Westall.
  • A boy with Down's syndrome, holding a rifle and sitting on a fur carpet. Photograph by R.W. Morris.
  • A small boy holding a big cone filled with various kinds of candy. Colour lithograph after R. Vepřek, 1956.
  • A barber cutting a boy's hair at a Buddhist monastery in Burma. Halftone after a photograph by R. Grant Brown.
  • A doctor placing his hand on the head of a sick boy, outside a country cottage. Photogravure after R. Hedley, 1898.
  • A boy entering a darkened barn, frightened by what he fears is a ghost but is an owl. Etching by R. Pollard and aquatint by F. Jukes, 1785, after R.M. Paye.
  • A Muslim man accompanied by a boy: both with rods and chains piercing their bodies at the festival of Muharram in Shusha, Azerbaijan (?). Etching by R.R. after H. Koch, ca. 1878.
  • The governors of the Leper Asylum at Amsterdam admitting a boy. Engraving by R. Vinkeles after J. M. Cok after F. Bol, 1649.
  • A boy is caught by a shopkeeper and threatened with a stick as punishment for breaking a window. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • A boy in Granada rides on a donkey loaded with panniers as he leads his flock of goats. Engraving by C. Cousen after R. Ansdell.
  • An old woman sits spinning by candelelight as a boy and a cat warm themselves by the fire. Engraving by J. Parker after R. Corbould.
  • A boy seated at a street corner at night selling boxes of matches from a tray on his lap. Wood engraving by R. Bong, 1890.
  • A boy with a variety of icthyosis, a skin disease, which in this case resembles the scales of an alligator. Stipple engraving by R.W. Sievier, 1818.
  • A boy accompanied by a girl is talking to a gentleman while a woman pushing a pram looks amused as she passes. Wood engraving by Swain after R.B..
  • Rue du Petit Musc, Paris: street vendors outside a liquor shop;a group of soldiers walk down the street on the left, while a boy wearing clogs sweeps the street. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.
  • Left, catheters for the treatment of stones and disesases of the urethra; right, a boy held in the right position for the performance of the cutting of a stone and various instruments for this operation. Engraving with etching by R. Parr.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata of Christ. Colour etching by F. Boyé, 1820, after A. Allegri, il Correggio.
  • An apothecary's apprentice in a shop mixing up a prescription in a pestle and mortar for a customer. Watercolour attributed to C. Stanfield.
  • Everybody should go and see the beautiful child -- the giant boy, a second Daniel Lambert ... : James Paine, of London, aged 9 years, weighs the enormous weight of 19 stone and a half ...
  • Young boy with smallpox
  • A puppy lying on a straw bed gnawing a bone. Colour line block after a painting by A. W. Strutt.
  • Pears' soap : matchless for the complexion / Pears.
  • Two women sit at a table drinking tea and gossiping, so taken up with what they are saying that the tea is accidently poured on the cat. Aquatint by G. Hunt after M. Egerton.
  • Philippe Ricord. Coloured wood engraving (?), 1867, after A. Gill.