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  • A girl and her grandfather sit at the top of a hill which looks back over St Paul's cathedral. Lithograph by J. Barnard.
  • Oliver Twist, holding a bowl and a spoon, asks for more food, while other children and a woman look surprised. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • A London linen-draper's assistant reveals his true identity: he is not "Horatio Sparkins", an aristocratic man about town, but Mr Smith, an assistant in a down-market shop. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • The election of a parish beadle in England: crowds thronging the entrance to the polling station, including supporters of the rival candidates, Spruggins and Bung, who expect to be elected according to the large number of their dependents. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1836.
  • A noisy tenant and three of his friends, having stayed up singing until the early hours of the morning, go to the house of an elderly neighbour and disturb his sleep to ask him for glass of water and the loan of a shilling for a cab. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • McDougall's patent self raising flour.
  • Bill Sikes attempting to drown his dog in a pond near Hatfield, Herts. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1838.
  • Van Houten's cocoa : best and goes farthest... : Bumble / C.J. van Houten & Zoon.
  • Van Houten's cocoa : best and goes farthest... : Captain Cuttle / C.J. van Houten & Zoon.
  • Van Houten's cocoa : best and goes farthest... : Mr. Samuel Pickwick / C.J. van Houten & Zoon.
  • Van Houten's cocoa : best and goes farthest... : Captain Cuttle / C.J. van Houten & Zoon.
  • Van Houten's cocoa : best and goes farthest... : Micawber / C.J. van Houten & Zoon.
  • Van Houten's cocoa : best and goes farthest... : Micawber / C.J. van Houten & Zoon.
  • Van Houten's cocoa : best and goes farthest... : Bumble / C.J. van Houten & Zoon.
  • Van Houten's cocoa : best and goes farthest... : Mr. Samuel Pickwick / C.J. van Houten & Zoon.
  • An episode in the novel Nicholas Nickleby: Ralph Nickleby, seated on a high stool, and Arthur Gride, sitting on a low chair, conspire to defraud Madeline Bray of her inheritance; Newman Noggs eavesdrops on their conversation from the door. Etching after Phiz (Hablot K. Browne), 1839.
  • A newly-wed couple (Barkis and Clara Peggotty) set off in a cart from the beach, accompanied by David Copperfield and Emily: Mr Peggotty tries to persuade Mrs Gummidge to throw a shoe after them. Etching by Hablot K. Browne, 1849.
  • The lawyer Vholes advises Richard Carstone. Etching by Hablot K. Browne, 1853.
  • David Copperfield as a boy enters the study of Dr Strong who is absorbed in lexicographic work; his young wife Annie is sitting on a stool at his feet. Etching by Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne), 1849.
  • 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).
  • A London hair-dresser's shop: a barber shaves a man; a young woman who is having her hair cut recognizes another customer; and a man who rents the upper part reads the Sunday newspaper. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • A barber is asked to shave a man who has no facial hair. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • An episode in Dombey and son by Charles Dickens: the interior of "The wooden midshipman", a shop in the City of London for navigational instruments; a boy ("Rob the Grinder") is conversing with a pugilist known as "The Game Chicken". Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • Dickens giving the last reading of his Works.
  • Queen Victoria, seated in an armchair by an open fire, day-dreaming about illustrious men of her reign. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1887.
  • British inventors, politicians and military men, gathered in a room at Buckingham Palace. Engraving by C.G. Lewis, 1863, after T.J. Barker.
  • British inventors, politicians and military men: a key to the identities of the sitters. Engraving by C.G. Lewis, 1863, after T.J. Barker.