At a Great Exhibition a shopkeeper sells enemas concealed in hollow volumes of classic literature for purposes of discretion. Lithograph by C. Vernier, 1844.

Colin Clive. Photographic postcard, 193-.

Saint John the Baptist. Etching attributed to G.B. Fontana.

The assumption of Queen Victoria. Photogravure, 1902, after A. Drummond, 1901.

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