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  • Mazawattee cocoa : Britannia welcomes the new cocoa (Latariba).
  • Mazawattee cocoa : Britannia welcomes the new cocoa (Latariba).
  • Mazawattee cocoa : Britannia welcomes the new cocoa (Latariba) : [variant text].
  • Mazawattee cocoa : Britannia welcomes the new cocoa (Latariba) : [variant text].
  • Admiral Rodney stands between Britannia and Neptune. Etching by J. Gillray, 1782.
  • British Red Cross Society 1914 : [nurse kneeling with Britannia [?] behind her].
  • Mercury [Hermes] as god of trade presenting the continents to Britannia. Etching by C. Grignion after S. Wale.
  • King Charles I: after his execution, Britannia points to his elevation into heaven by angels. Etching after J. Vanderbank.
  • Daniel O'Connell plays chess with Lord Melbourne while Britannia watches. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1837.
  • Britannia holding a trident in one hand and tobacco leaves in the other. Engraving by Silvester, early 19th century.
  • Oliver Cromwell (left) and the Protector kneeling with his head on the lap of Britannia (right): two roundels. Engraving, 1739.
  • [British charity stamp showing Britannia, supporting a wounded soldier amidst battlefield carnage, watching an approaching, horse-drawn Red Cross ambulance].
  • Britannia helps a triton to save a shipwrecked woman from the stormy sea. Aquatint after N. de Santiago y de Rotalde.
  • Wisdom shows Britannia the measurements of the globe; figures representing other continents stand watching. Engraving by W. Swift after W.M. Craig.
  • British Red Cross Society : 1D : [Britannia supporting a wounded soldier lying on the battlefield, a horse-drawn ambulance approaches].
  • Anglo-American research on DNA represented by Britannia and the Statue of Liberty, with festoons of DNA. Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1990.
  • Anglo-American research on DNA represented by Britannia and the Statue of Liberty, with festoons of DNA. Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1990.
  • Britannia pointing to Sanatogen, Formamint, and German colonies in Africa and the East Indies as new British possessions. Colour process print after E.F. Skinner.
  • A fearful woman (Britannia) is encouraged by three British politicians to resist the invading fleet of France. Coloured etching by J. Gillray after J. Sneyd, 1803.
  • A fearful woman (Britannia) is encouraged by three British politicians to resist the invading fleet of France. Coloured etching by J. Gillray after J. Sneyd, 1803.
  • John Ray, with a vignette of Britannia crowning Ray as the prince of English botanists. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1804, after T. Uwins and Mary Beale.
  • John Ray, with a vignette of Britannia crowning Ray as the prince of English botanists. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1804, after T. Uwins and Mary Beale.
  • A woman being stabbed while the blood pouring from her wounds is drunk by a group of men; representing Britannia's resources being drained by politicians. Engraving, 1768.
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including an shipwreck, a mob by St Paul's Cathedral, people dying from Cholera [?], and Hibernia pleading with Britannia [?]. Coloured lithograph, [c.1872?].
  • Consultationes medicae : sive sylloge epistolarum cum responsis Hermanni Boerhaave. In Britannia primum editae nunc aliquot exemplis auctiores. Adcesserunt ejusdem Introductio ad praxin clinicam & Praelectiones de calculo.
  • Consultationes medicae : sive sylloge epistolarum cum responsis Hermanni Boerhaave. In Britannia primum editae nunc aliquot exemplis auctiores. Adcesserunt ejusdem Introductio ad praxin clinicam & Praelectiones de calculo.
  • Napoleon leaps from his bed, terrified at a nightmarish vision of ghosts and devils, while Britannia and Liberty float on a cloud behind. Etching by the Caricaturist General, 1811.
  • An angel crowns Britannia as a reward for defeating France in the naval battle in the eastern Atlantic on 1 June 1794. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1803, after R. Smirke.
  • Britannia holds her discontented suckling child (King George III) and looks at it with sadness, above them the full privy purse of 1753 and the empty privy purse of 1773. Etching.
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including Napoleon III, death showing his handiwork, a weeping Britannia beside a child's [?] flag-draped coffin, a sea battle, and a land battle. Coloured lithograph, [c.1871?].