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  • Ahilyabai Holkar with two female attendants holding a diplomatic meeting between a nobleman and subject ruler. Chromolithograph.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: Mao Changxi (1817–1882), Minister of Foreign Affairs. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: Mao Changxi (1817–1882), Minister of Foreign Affairs. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: Dong Xun (1810-1892), Minister of Foreign Affairs, late Qing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: Dong Xun (1810-1892), Minister of Foreign Affairs, late Qing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A hind standing on a crag in the forest belling with a group of stags and deer resting on patch of grass below. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • The dance of death: Death appears to the people in the inn and instigates them, the proletariat, to clear the throne to make way for communism. Drawing by or after E. Ille.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Engraving.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by T. Chambers after R. Cosway, 1787.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Reproduction after J.G. Huquier.
  • Two scenes of Le Chevalier D'Éon fencing at Angelo's Fencing Academy. Reproductions of watercolours, 1904, by T. Rowlandson.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman: shown half in woman's, half in man's attire. Engraving.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Mezzotint by Vispré.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1810.
  • Saint Teresa: she is encouraged by Christ to bring aid to Bernardino de Mendoza in purgatory by building a convent on land given to her by Bernardino. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Mercury lies dying from cholera, surrounded by ministers; representing the sickly state of the French economy in the 1830s. Coloured etching, c. 1832.
  • Two devils in a laboratory produce statutes with the help of a genie; showing the repressive nature of the government of France under Louis-Philippe, especially concerning the freedom of the press. Lithograph by E. Le Poittevin, 1831.
  • Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.
  • Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.
  • Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.
  • A day in the life of Tsar Alexander I of Russia, in London, 1814. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
  • A day in the life of Tsar Alexander I of Russia, in London, 1814. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
  • Centres of the slave trade in East Africa patrolled by the Royal Navy. Wood engraving, 1875.