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  • Fire-fighters and fire-fighting techniques. Process print after R. Cleaver.
  • Westminster Hall: fire-fighters preventing the fire of 1834 from entering the hall. Coloured lithograph, 1834.
  • Anglo-Egyptian War, 1882: the execution of an Egyptian fighter by a British firing squad in Alexandria. Wood engraving after M. Prior, 1882.
  • An elephant fight, with a few men holding spears with sparkling fires at one end. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Saint Peter Celestine: a house is set on fire by devils, but he fights against it with the prayer and the sign of the Cross. Engraving by A. [?] van Merlen.
  • Above, a palatial funeral pyre is set on fire; below, Roman soldiers staging a fight with swords before a funeral pyre with a body layed out in state. Etching with engraving.
  • Firemen climb up a long extended ladder fixed to a horse-drawn cart which is standing in the middle of a street. Process print.
  • New York City: Broadway in the snow, with a fire-engine passing a horse-drawn carriage. Aquatint by P. Girardet after H. Sebron, 1857.
  • New York City: Broadway in the snow, with a fire-engine passing a horse-drawn carriage. Aquatint by P. Girardet after H. Sebron, 1857.
  • Firemen standing around the circumferance of a large orange condom as though it was a safety net; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by Gapa RS. Colour lithograph by Chitolina, ca. 1996.
  • Opening of the Fréjus Rail Tunnel: a group of soldiers with false moustaches and beards stand with swords, a mace and a furled flag. Wood engraving by C.J.B. (?) after R. Linklater, 1871.
  • Opening of the Fréjus Rail Tunnel: a group of soldiers with false moustaches and beards stand with swords, a mace and a furled flag. Wood engraving by C.J.B. (?) after R. Linklater, 1871.
  • Bilvamangala's Balagopalastuti: folio 56 verso
  • Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, aged thirty. Stipple engraving by R. Page, 1821.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf. Wood engraving.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, aged twenty five. Line engraving.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf. Line engraving.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, aged 30. Stipple engraving by R. Page, 1821.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf. Coloured engraving by J. Stow, 1810, after G.P. Harding after D. Mytens.
  • Mrs Fitzherbert and George Prince of Wales represented as Adam and Eve standing under the Tree of Knowledge surrounded by the trappings of fashionable pastimes and vices, causing the devil to flee. Etching, 1786.
  • Mrs Fitzherbert and George Prince of Wales represented as Adam and Eve standing under the Tree of Knowledge surrounded by the trappings of fashionable pastimes and vices, causing the devil to flee. Etching, 1786.