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  • A doctor serving in the French Garde Nationale (reserves) feeling the pulse of a frail old man who is seated in an armchair wearing a saucepan on his head. Coloured lithograph by Draner (Jules Renard), 1865.
  • Franco-Prussian War: foreign ambulance staff in the Siege of Paris. Coloured transfer lithograph by Draner (J. Renard), 1871.
  • A physician and a nurse discuss the recent death of a patient: the physician instinctively resorts to blaming the patient for non-compliance in following the prescribed dosage. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1840.
  • Larevellière-Lépeaux sits in a disordered quack doctor's room, in the presence of seven wounded French generals, one of them vomiting; representing French defeats in 1799 and Bonaparte's failed imperial ambitions in the east. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A French soldier boasts that he and six others have 'evacuated' 300 Mexicans from a square;a military surgeon, holding an enema, counters that he has 'evacuated' many more single-handed. Coloured lithograph by Draner (Jules Renard).
  • An artist before a crowd painting a shop sign. Lithograph by F. Le Villain, 1822, after H. Bellangé.
  • Thunbergia alata Sims Acanthaceae. Black-eyed Susan. Tender, perennial herbaceous climbing plant. Distribution: East Africa. Named for Carl Peter (Pehr or Per) Thunberg (1743-1828), doctor, botanist, student of Linnaeus who collected plants in Japan, Sri Lanka and South Africa. He published Flora Japonica (1784)
  • Queen Marie Antoinette led to her execution on a horse-cart on the 16th of October 1793. Aquatint with engraving by C. Silanio after Aloisin, 1793.
  • Louise Chevalier in the role of Virginie is feeding water from her hands into the mouth of a black man in a loin-cloth. Mezzotint by J. Ward, 1799, after C. Henard.
  • Marie-François Vergèz. Line engraving by F.L. Couché, 1807.
  • A distressed young woman protests her innocence and prays before the judge and the counsel of the Spanish inquisition. Aquatint by J.P.M. Jazet, 1839, after S.J.E. Jones.
  • A nun brings some refreshment to a feverish patient, with a poem by Legouvé. Coloured lithograph by J.P. Moynet, 1846.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child. Engraving by F. Gaillard, 1869, after Raphael.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin). Line engraving by A.V. Beaugrand after B. Luini.
  • The death of Napoleon Bonaparte at St Helena in 1821. Intaglio print by J.P.M. Jazet, 1830, after Baron Steuben.
  • A family caught in an avalanche along the Mount St. Bernard Pass; a woman frantically rings the bell thus breaking the cord. Aquatint by J.P.M. Jazet after H. Lecomte.
  • A young woman watching from a beach while a rowing boat carries a man, waving farewell, to a ship in the distance. Aquatint by J.P.M. Jazet, 1829, after H. Corbould.