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  • AIDS prevention advertisement with Japanese lettering
  • Two men apprehending Lord Edward Fitzgerald at gunpoint in his bed chamber for high treason. Line engraving with etching.
  • A figure at the centre of a broken wheel entered by multicoloured lines; representing help for AIDS patients in Kiel. Colour lithograph by Behrens und Carow, 199-.
  • Henry Addington as a medical practitioner bleeding the exhausted John Bull, assisted by other politicians; representing Britain's strength being sapped by nepotism in politics and by war with Napoleon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.
  • Numerous hands clustered together with the words 'Wir brauchen Dich' [we need you] representing an advertisement for the centenary of the Berliner AIDS-Hilfe e.V. and an appeal for volunteers. Colour lithograph by Carolyn Jones and Comdesign, [1995].
  • Bourgouin, a man impervious to cold water. Aquatint.
  • A partly blurred image of a woman sitting at a table in a bar with a glass of wine as a man puts his arm around while holding up a condom packet to their companions; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by R. Warzecha, M. Jahreiss and D. Pusch.
  • 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.
  • A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his face in the background. Mezzotint by Jan van der Bruggen after D. Teniers II, 167-.
  • The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is taken from the battle after being wounded in the thigh (key to the painting). Engraving, 1804, after R. Ker Porter.
  • Mr. Lambkin behaving in a drunken and disorderly manner resulting in being restrained and arrested by a policeman. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is wounded in the thigh. Engraving by F. Legat, 1805, after T. Stothard.
  • George Lloyd in Arab dress reclining and smoking a hookah. Coloured lithograph by Lemoine, ca. 1851.
  • The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is wounded in the thigh. Engraving by E. Mitchell, 1805, after J. Northcote.
  • George Lloyd in Arab dress reclining and smoking a hookah. Coloured lithograph by Lemoine, ca. 1851.
  • The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is wounded in the thigh. Mezzotint by P. Dawe, 180-, after R. Pollard.
  • Crowds of sick people and clergy gathering at the tomb of F. de Paris where people had been cured. Engraving.
  • A battlefield littered with corpses of soldiers and carcasses of horses during a fierce cavalry battle. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Benjamin Franklin. Line engraving by P. A. Le Beau after P. Marin after J. S. Duplessis, 1778.
  • A woman giving birth in an elaborate room aided by a midwife and a nun and surrounded by her husband and family. Engraving by A. Bosse.
  • A surgeon about to let blood from a woman patient in a richly furnished room. Engraving by A. Bosse.
  • Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
  • Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
  • Battle of Omdurman, Sudan: troops are massing and engaging in battle next to the River Nile.. Chromolithograph by A. Sutherland.
  • Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
  • Two HIV positive women look over their shoulders to suggest their social isolation while below the same women look forwards to reflect a more positive attitude; an advertisement for the support services offered for HIV positive women by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Lauterbach and Boek.
  • Battle of Omdurman, Sudan: troops are massing and engaging in battle next to the River Nile. Chromolithograph by A. Sutherland.
  • Photographs of people with quotes from them about AIDS against a blue background bearing words 'krank' [sick] and 'AIDS'; an advertisement by DoRo for the German Health Ministry. Colour lithograph by kunterbunt gmbh, 1995.
  • The prophecy of Masuka: an African medicine man or shaman of the Nkose watching the future in a bowl. Painting by Stanley Wood, 1894.