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  • Merlin's mechanical chair for the elderly or infirm: the design incorporates hand-cranks, wheels, gears and an adjustable back and footrest. Coloured etching with aquatint, 1811.
  • Sir Matthew Wood. Mezzotint by W. Dickinson, 1817, after Lady Bell.
  • Jesus appoints Peter as keeper of the keys to heaven; angels stand by. Engraving by G. Pasqualini after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • Dr. Hand's remedies for children : pleasant physic, colic cure, teething lotion, worm elixir, diarrhoea mixture, general tonic, cough and croup medicine, chafing powder.
  • Dr. Hand's remedies for children : pleasant physic, colic cure, teething lotion, worm elixir, diarrhoea mixture, general tonic, cough and croup medicine, chafing powder.
  • Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford. Mezzotint by J. R. Smith, 1801, after himself.
  • A clothed woman carrying a parasol and handbag moves a chair, turns and sits on it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman places her hands on a chair seat as she kneels on the ground. She places her hands together and rises to a standing position. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman sitting in a wooden chair holds an open fan in her right hand, stands, bends to pick up a handkerchief from the ground and begins to straighten up again. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A day in the life of George, Prince Regent, 1814. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
  • A day in the life of George, Prince Regent, 1814. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
  • An episode in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens: a crowd gathers around Mr Mantalini who has attempted to poison himself. Etching after Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • China: a Manchu bride in her wedding clothes with her maid, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a Manchu bride in her wedding clothes with her maid, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • The rulers of Europe as doctors prescribing remedies for Empress Maria Theresa. Etching and letterpress, 1742.
  • A day in the life of Tsar Alexander I of Russia, in London, 1814. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
  • A day in the life of Tsar Alexander I of Russia, in London, 1814. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A paralyzed woman being transported along the street in a wheelchair. Lithograph by Théodore Gericault, 1821.
  • Sanguisorba officinalis 'Tanna'
  • A naked man with motor neuron disease, walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A prisoner is sitting on straw in a cave with his feet chained to the wall, there are a few provisions on a small shelf in the rock. Etching by R. Blyth after J.H. Mortimer.
  • The last moments of HRH the Prince Consort. Oil painting by Oakley under the pseudonym Le Port, ca. 1861.
  • The last moments of HRH the Prince Consort. Oil painting by Oakley under the pseudonym Le Port, ca. 1861.
  • Titus Oates is standing in the pillory while two men drive a cart with gallows past him. Mezzotint.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.