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  • Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Etching by Beauvais, 1747, after C. Banks, 1746, after M. Descazeaux du Halley.
  • A man with an artificial arm selling live haddock from a basket he suspends from the hook on his left shoulder. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • Two performing street entertainers carrying bells and performing on the street. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Sir John Dineley-Goodere, an eccentric baronet of Burhope in Herefordshire, resident in Windsor. Etching.
  • Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Etching.
  • Jeffery Dunstan, a deformed eccentric. Engraving by J. Wilkes.
  • Jane Lewson, an elderly eccentric. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • An itinerant salesman with artificial arms selling the bootlaces that hang from the hooks of his hands. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Line engraving by Wilkes.
  • John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Etching attributed to R. Livesay, 1787.
  • Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Soft-ground etching.
  • Jane Shore (mistress of King Edward IV), Henry Hastings (Dorset landowner and sportsman), Jedediah Buxton (mental calculator), and Mary Davis (with horns). Etching, 1808.
  • Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II. Collected from the most authentic accounts extant / By James Caulfield.
  • Atalanta defending her chastity during a hunt by shooting her pursuer. Engraving by J.K. Baldrey after H.W. Bunbury, 1790.
  • Louis Vernassier in drag poses with a harp. Process print, 1906.
  • Louis Vernassier in drag poses with a harp. Process print, 1906.
  • Sir Jeffrey Dunstan, mayor of Garrett, presents an address from the Corporation of Garrett to William Pitt the younger, who wears a crown and sits on a commode. Coloured etching by F.G. Byron, 1788.
  • Anatomy of the principal parts of the human body. Engraving by J. Blanchin after J. Dumoulin, 1679.
  • Anatomy of the principal parts of the human body. Engraving by J. Blanchin after J. Dumoulin, 1679.
  • Two men, wrongly confined by Dr George Man Burrows in his lunatic asylum in Clapham, win a legal case against him and force him to flee. Lithograph by W. Heath, 1830.
  • I.D. Waterman, seated, cross-legged, holding a carte de visite photograph. Photograph by C.W. Terpening, 1876.
  • I.D. Waterman, seated, cross-legged, holding a carte de visite photograph. Photograph by C.W. Terpening, 1876.
  • A jester with a small guitar slung over his shoulder offers cherries to a bird on his hand as another bird takes the fruit from the plate on the floor, and a chained monkey looks on. Engraving by E. Mohn after A. Lambron.