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  • Title page of A Physical Dissertation on Drowning
  • Resuscitation techniques for somebody who was drowning.
  • A drowning person throwing up arms. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • A woman with long hair drowning. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1973.
  • A woman with long hair drowning. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1973.
  • The dance of death: death by drowning. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: death by drowning. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Effects on the blood in the brains of two rabbits after death by drowning
  • Spanish soldiers slaughtering and drowning men and women in the streets of Maastricht. Etching.
  • The hands of a person drowning; above, purple and red diagonals. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1977.
  • The hands of a person drowning; above, purple and red diagonals. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1977.
  • A drowning man and his horse in the sea: the drowning man holds on to the tailcoat of another rider until it tears and forces him to fall back into the water. Etching with engraving by W. Floyd after T. Allom.
  • A woman drowning in a sea of jagged green and purple waves. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A woman drowning in a sea of jagged green and purple waves. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • The face of a person with red features drowning in green waves. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1971.
  • The face of a person with red features drowning in green waves. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1971.
  • Medallion of St. George and the Dragon. Worn by sailors to prevent drowning. Sold near London Docks.
  • Purple waves, in which seven people are drowning and one is holding an oar. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • A drowning woman raising her hands above her head against a turbulent cerise sky. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1962.
  • A drowning woman raising her hands above her head against a turbulent cerise sky. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1962.
  • Moses parting the Red Sea: British politicians depicted drowning in the sea. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 5 December 1885.
  • Czar Alexander of Russia offers his handkerchief as bandage to a man rescued from drowning. Stipple engraving by J. Girtin, 1806.
  • Popular observations on apparent death from drowning, suffocation, etc., with an account of the means to be employed for recovery / [James Curry].
  • Artificial respiration of a man who has been rescued from drowning, electric shock or carbon monoxide poisoning. Colour lithograph by Jacob Jansma, 194-.
  • Two men in a ferry on a stormy crossing: a passenger and the ferryman discuss at cross purposes the danger of drowning. Etching, 1803.
  • Left, an anguished face with crosses, hooks and diagonals; right, the hands of a drowning person, with verticals and diagonals. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1977.
  • Martha Gunn, a Brighton bather holding a small child that she has just saved from drowning. Coloured engraving by W. Nutter, 1797, after J. Russell.
  • A sailor saving a large lady and a slim gentleman from drowning by pulling the lady into the boat by hooking up her dress. Lithograph.
  • Noah's ark surrounded by drowning men; above, the dove holds the olive leaf in its beak, while God appears in a cloud attired as a bishop. Woodcut.
  • Various forms of mutilation and torture including scourging, beheading, burning, hanging, drowning, quartering, the cutting off of hands and ears, and the breaking on the rack. Woodcut.