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  • Engraving showing a bed with drapery.
  • Engraving showing a bed with drapery.
  • The interior of a draper's shop with figures carrying and measuring cloth. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A woman coughing or sneezing without a handkerchief in a draper's shop. Lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • A grotesque mermaid, amidst luxurious cushions and drapes, and framed by two shells. Coloured lithograph by E. Purcell, 1822.
  • A woman with billowing drapery standing before a coiled serpent as she offers a cup to a young man in a barge. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Three women in a room are talking among themselves as another arranges the drapes on the bed. Aquatint by J. Höuel.
  • A young couple visiting a draper's shop to choose material for a wedding gown. Engraving by Frederick A. Heath after W. Mulready.
  • Two female figures standing on either side of drapery bearing the title of Vesling's Syntagma anatomicum: beyond, the anatomy theatre of the University of Padua. Engraving by Giovanni Georgi, 1647.
  • C.S. Parnell riding a horse called "Home Rule" crashes into the window of a drapery shop in which Queen Victoria is buying textiles. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 2 February 1884.
  • 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.
  • A reclining woman looks out while leaning on one arm with a transparent drape around her and the message "I am concerned with safety"; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph.
  • A naked man drapes a kimono around the shoulders of another man within an oriental decorative red border incorporating flowers; advertisement for Kimono Condoms and safe sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph by Mark I. Chester.
  • A black female silhouette figure with a purple drape and long hair dancing to the left representing an advertisement for a programme about Women's Rights to commemorate World AIDS Day in Honduras. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A reclining woman looks out while leaning on one arm with a transparent drape around her and the message "I am concerned with safety"; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph.
  • A reclining woman looks out while leaning on one arm with a transparent drape around her and the message "I am concerned with safety"; an advertisement [larger version] for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph.
  • Above, the martyr Nicholas Burton is tied and suspended from a hook and tortured by men using pliers to tear flesh from his body; below, Richard Wilmot and Thomas Halifax are scourged in Drapers Hall, London. Engraving with etching.
  • In a room hung with black drapes to show mourning, Ramble Gripe, in the company of a pregnant woman holding out a ring, and her mother with a letter, is measured by a tailor; a coffin lid leans against the fireplace. Engraving by Thomas Bowles, 1735.
  • A surgeon in his workroom extracting stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Gouache painting by J. Einsle, 1806, after G. Dou.
  • A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G. Woodward.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop clinging on to his bag, after two gentlemen (one of them Tristram Shandy's father?) had attempted to look inside it. Aquatint by J.H. Clark, 1820, after L. Sterne.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop clinging on to his bag, after two gentlemen (one of them Tristram Shandy's father?) had attempted to look inside it. Aquatint by J.H. Clark, 1820, after L. Sterne.
  • A surgeon bleeding a woman patient's arm, he is assisted by two attendants. Engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • A surgeon bleeding a woman patient's arm, he is assisted by two attendants. Engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin, who kneels at a prie-dieu. Engraving by P. Pontius after C. Schut.
  • A physician receiving a glass from a female servant while visiting a young female patient who is in bed. Coloured lithograph by P.H.L. Van der Meulen after J. Steen.
  • Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: the camp of Cortez in Mexico. Lithograph.
  • A physician gazing in amazement at a urine sample of an elderly female patient who is seated near him in a richly furnished room. Engraving by J.B. Fosseyeux after F. Giani after G. Dou.
  • Four men and a woman in the audience of a theatre, seated in the front box above the orchestra. Lithograph after Grenier.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.