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  • Burdock Blood Bitters : plain as daylight.
  • Burdock Blood Bitters : plain as daylight.
  • An alchemist stoking a furnace in a dimly lit room, as daylight shines through a window. Engraving by P-F. Basan after T. Wyck.
  • An alchemist stoking a furnace in a dimly lit room, as daylight shines through a window. Engraving by P-F. Basan after T. Wyck.
  • A town gentleman visiting a village dentist and enquiring if he uses gas, the dentist retorts he does but prefers daylight. Process print after G. Du Maurier, 1895.
  • 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 clog-carver working in a daylight-basement with a window on to the street; another man sits on a stool in the street talking to him while smoking a pipe; a dog sleeps on the roof over the window. Etching by Adriaen van Ostade.
  • 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.
  • Nepal; tenements, old and new, Kathmandu, 1986. Builders erecting new apartments on the site of an old tenement block. Once erected, the residents of the existing four-storey tenement block will have their daylight extinguished. A woman picks her way across the building site from her home to the street.
  • A man cutting gems using a treadle at his bench before a large window. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Various studies of light on trees. Watercolours.
  • Birds attacking an owl resting upon a staff held by a naked woman; representing patience. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • Liberal and radical politicians as ballad singers (Thomas Wakley, Charles Buller, D. W. Harvey, Joseph Hume, Lord Brougham and J.A. Roebuck) sing a song sympathetic to Canadian rebels below the window of John Bull, who proposes to drench them with the contents of the house pail. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • An almost deserted street in London in the early morning: a woman serves a man and a boy with a hot drink, and a policeman rests against a bollard. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • A man riding on a horse which is pulling a wagon loaded with masonry, while another man attempts to keep the wagon steady. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir Peter Paul Rubens.