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  • Drury Lane Theatre, London: royal visitors looking at animals in enclosures. Lithograph by W. Taylor.
  • Look! Look! Startling attractions. Monday, December 6th, 1886, and every evening : Another surprise for London. Important engagement of Pat O'Brien, the great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowned German Giantess ... / Middlesex Music Hall, Mogul Tavern, 167 Drury Lane.
  • Look! Look! Startling attractions : Monday, December 6th, 1886, and every evening : another surprise for London. Important engagement of Pat O'Brien, the great Irish giant and his wife, the renowned German giantess direct from Barnum's circus / Middlesex Music Hall, Mogul Tavern, 167 Drury Lane.
  • The last week of the present attractive performances : Balfe's grand opera, The daughter of St. Mark ... The peri ... / Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane.
  • For twelve nights only, commencing Monday, Feb. 23, 1874 : South London Palace, London Road / proprietors, Speedy & Poole.
  • For twelve nights only, commencing Monday, Feb. 23, 1874 : South London Palace, London Road / proprietors, Speedy & Poole.
  • King George II as Prince of Wales. Engraving by G. Vertue after G. Kneller, 1724.
  • Burgess and Son's receipt for making a dish of curry, after the Indian manner.
  • A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.
  • George Grenville, Lord Bute and the Duke of Bedford dance on the tombstone of the Duke of Cumberland to the tune of the devil playing the bagpipes. Etching, 1765.
  • Saint Roch, Saint Sebastian, a male saint, Saint Peter the Apostle (?) and Saint John the Baptist with angels above. Engraving by J. Sympson, 1728, after F. Lauri.
  • The rake carouses in a tavern full of prostitutes. Engraving by Thomas Bowles, 1735.
  • Last night but four : New Theatre Royal, English Opera House, Strand : to-night, Friday 19th March, 1819; Mr. D.F. Walker's on his entirely new Eidouranion; or, large transparent orrery.
  • South London Palace [Hairy Man and His Son]
  • Merchant Tailors' School, Suffolk Lane, London: facade. Etching by Sheppard, 1815, after himself.
  • A newly discovered animal! : The bonassus from the Apalachian mountains of America, is seventeen months old, and five feet ten inches high ... to be seen at 287, Strand between St. Mary-le-Strand and St. Clement's churches, aslo with an entrance at 41, Holywell-Street ...
  • The wonderful two-headed nightingale : the eighth wonder of the world / Sanger's Royal Amphitheatre.
  • The wonderful two-headed nightingale : "the eighth wonder of the world" / St. James's Great Hall.
  • The wonderful two-headed nightingale : "the eighth wonder of the world" / Horns Assembly Rooms, Kennington.
  • Another surprise for London! : Important engagement of Pat O'Brien, the Great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowned German Giantess direct from Barnum's American Circus : the tallest married couple in the world ...
  • A man pasting posters on to a wall: one poster has blown away and covered a man who was walking past, knocking his hat to the ground. Lithograph after R. Seymour, 1834.
  • The hirsute Kostroma people from the primeval forests of central Russia : the first of their kind ever seen in England.
  • The hirsute Kostroma people from the primeval forests of central Russia : the first of their kind ever seen in England.
  • Dan Leno as "Mother Goose".
  • Dan Leno as "Mother Goose".
  • Vignettes of Peel's first ministry. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
  • Tom. E. Murray as Mother Goose.
  • Tom. E. Murray as Mother Goose.
  • Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.