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  • The Morgue, Paris, by Notre Dame. Etching, 1829, after W. Price.
  • The death of Lord Nelson on the quarter deck aboard HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving by W. Hulland after A. Devis, 1807.
  • Hôtel des Invalides, Paris: soldiers outside the principal facade. Line engraving by W. Watkins, 1831, after B. Ferry.
  • Fox running out of the House of Commons in the middle of a debate with William Pitt the younger about the Regency crisis: he is excreting as he runs, which refers to a bout of dysentery he caught on route from Bologna. Etching by J. Gillray, 1788.
  • John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.
  • Dramatists and actors: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • King George IV and entourage laden with provisions, about to embark from Brighton in the Royal Yacht; representing the extravagant monarch's distressed retreat from England at the time of the Queen's trial. Coloured etching by R. Cruikshank, 1820.