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  • Milking machine: interceptor float
  • Interceptor float used for milking cows
  • Burma: slaves (?) pulling a float towards the right. Gouache painting.
  • Napoleon leaps from his bed, terrified at a nightmarish vision of ghosts and devils, while Britannia and Liberty float on a cloud behind. Etching by the Caricaturist General, 1811.
  • Pastel-coloured figures float amidst leaf shapes against a backdrop of bullet point text describing the United Nations Principles of HIV infection; an advertisement by the Estonian Association "Anti-AIDS". Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Pastel-coloured figures float amidst leaf shapes against a backdrop of bullet point text describing the United Nations Principles of HIV infection; an advertisement by the Estonian Association "Anti-AIDS". Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A cast of a rabbit with a hole in the middle and one ear missing appearing to float within a neutral background; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Liliana Porter, [1995].
  • A safe sex fiesta in Pamplona featuring numerous cavorting couples, some holding condoms including a bishop who appears to float on a cloud from which fly bat-like creatures; issued by the Comision Ciudadana Anti-SIDA de Navarra. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A group of people stand on a rug that appears to float across a world map as they point to the circular design surrounding them bearing the title in Spanish: 'Poster exhibition: 1985-1995' [in Madrid]; an advertisement by Salud y SIDA. Colour lithograph by Ana Capitaine, 1995.
  • It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • Edo (Tokyo): Kanda Festival Procession: four large, elaborately decorated floats are shown being pulled through the city. Colour woodcut by Yoshifuji, 1884.
  • A child and a man look at a woman; an outline of an old man floats between them. Etching after C. Le Brun.
  • A man is balancing on the seat of a carriage with a parasol in his hand as a horse pulls the carriage and a boy floats away holding another parasol. Lithograph by F. Festa after Bunivera.
  • Jo Spence floating.
  • A woman and a man sit on a bed staring at a condom as if it floats magically mid-air; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by R. Warzecha, M. Jahreiss and D. Pusch.
  • Model of Wellcome's floating laboratory.
  • Like floating in air. Watson & Sons advert, 1927
  • Civil engineering: a floating dock in Spain. Wood engraving, 1862.
  • A red balloon with a red label attached floats above a group of further balloons with the message in French: "Sponsor a balloon. Send a message"; an advertisement for a fundraising balloon event at Paris Champs de Mars on Saturday 28 October1995 to help combat AIDS by VLS (Vaincre le SIDA). Colour lithograph.
  • The Sacred Heart floating in a lake, framed by flowers. Coloured cut paper work.
  • A floating Chinese temple, including an altar, musicians and prayer wheels. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.
  • Hamburg's floating baths: plans and elevations, and detail of filter machine. Line engraving by Mutlow.
  • Civil engineering: the launch of a floating dock in Peru. Wood engraving after T. E. Wilmot.
  • The floating swimming-bath in the Thames at Charing-Cross. Wood engraving by H.J. Crane.
  • The floating swimming-bath in the Thames at Charing-Cross. Wood engraving by H.J. Crane.
  • The Sudan: steamship Culex and floating laboratory on the Nile. Photograph by R.G. Archibald, 1911.
  • Carpentry: an oblique pile-driving machine, floating by a river bank. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • A friend for fair forms and faces ... : Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • A friend for fair forms and faces ... : Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.