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  • King of Lilliputians : the original and only Australian General Tom Thumb, the smallest well-formed man in the world... the world-famed court dwarf and jester, Commodore Knott.
  • King of Lilliputians : the original and only Australian General Tom Thumb, the smallest well-formed man in the world... the world-famed court dwarf and jester, Commodore Knott.
  • South Africa: Hercules Robinson, Governor of the Cape Colony and High Commissioner of South Africa. 1896.
  • South Africa: Mrs Nea Robinson, wife of Hercules Robinson, Governor of the Cape Colony and High Commissioner of South Africa. 1896.
  • Manuscript certificate documenting, in French, Cook's service to the Russian crown, signed and sealed by Pierre Comte de Lacy, Field-Marshal in the Russian army and Governor-General of Livonia.
  • Rideau Hall, Ottawa: people using a toboggan slide in the presence of the Marquis of Lorne, governor-general of Canada, and his wife Princess Louise. Wood engraving by H. Harral after S.P. Hall.
  • Saint Paul shipwrecked on Malta. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1791, after B. West.
  • Saint Paul shipwrecked on Malta. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1791, after B. West.
  • Saint Paul the Apostle. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1791, after B. West.
  • Saint Paul landing on Malta (Acts. 27-28). Etching by F. Bartolozzi after B. West, 1791.
  • King Edward VI granting his Royal Charter to Bridewell Hospital. Engraving by G. Vertue, 1750, after a painting by G. Scrots.
  • Surgeons and physicians of Guy's Hospital, Southwark, London, with views of the building. Colour lithograph by M. & N. Hanhart after Beynon & Company.
  • Surgeons and physicians of Guy's Hospital, Southwark, London, with views of the building. Colour lithograph by M. & N. Hanhart after Beynon & Company.
  • The death of Colonel Moorhouse at Bangalore. Engraving by E. Stalker, 1811, after R. Home, 1791.
  • The body of Tippu Sultan is laid out and mourned by a woman and servants. Stipple engraving by L. Schiavonetti, 1801, after R.K. Porter.
  • A troubled and impecunious giant was brought up at Bow-street the other day before the presiding magistrate. : His name was James Patrick Tolley, aged forty-eight, standing seven feet five inches in his stockings ...
  • A troubled and impecunious giant was brought up at Bow-street the other day before the presiding magistrate. : His name was James Patrick Tolley, aged forty-eight, standing seven feet five inches in his stockings ...
  • King Edward VI, seated on a throne, presenting the Charter of Bridewell Hospital to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London. Engraving by G. Vertue after H. Holbein, 1750.
  • Lord Durham stands nursing his eye from a missile inscribed "act of indemnity" thrown by Lord Brougham who stands to the far right behind a tree. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • The execution of twelve mutineers at Peshawar; guards on horseback and guards holding spears; mountains in the background. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • The execution of mutineers in Peshawar: men being hanged and blown from guns. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • Annual report for the year 1902 (fifth year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
  • An orange graph background with a diagram illustrating the transmission of HIV through blood as an advertisement for the International Conference on HIV and Blood Products in Kobe, Japan in 1996. Colour lithograph, 1996.
  • Scenes in the trial of Percy Lefroy Mapleton at Maidstone Assizes for murder of Isaac Gold on the London-Brighton railway. Wood engraving, 1881.
  • Ruilin, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Qing China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869-1871.
  • Ruilin, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Qing China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869-1871.
  • Royal Hospital, Haslar, near Portsmouth: view from right. Coloured aquatint with etching by J. Wells, 1799, after J. Hall.
  • Royal Hospital, Haslar, near Portsmouth: view from far right. Coloured aquatint with etching by J. Wells, 1799, after J. Hall.
  • Royal Hospital, Haslar, near Portsmouth: view from right. Coloured aquatint with etching by J. Wells, 1799, after J. Hall.
  • An almost deserted street in London in the early morning: a woman serves a man and a boy with a hot drink, and a policeman rests against a bollard. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.