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  • Statuette of a naked boy standing on a corbel, commemorating the Great Fire of London, 1666. Etching on a mezzotint ground by J. T. Smith after himself, 1791.
  • Benjamin Marriot, a man who ate vast amounts of food. Coloured engraving.
  • Benjamin Marriot, a man who ate vast amounts of food. Coloured engraving.
  • Benjamin Marriot, a man who ate vast amounts of food. Coloured engraving.
  • The clyster is prepared for a glutton. Colour line engraving by J.J. Leveau after himself, 1762.
  • A corpulent gentleman with indigestion. Line engraving, c. 18th century.
  • A wealthy man at his dinner table is offered a clyster by a servant. Lithograph by Tal-Zar.
  • A gouty man savouring his feast. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt after E.Y.
  • The levels of hell depicted as circular stone tiers; purgatory lies outside its walls. Engraving.
  • Surrounded by ghoulish apparitions, a manic priest carries an enema towards a wretchedly praying man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, c. 1797.
  • An English doctor instructs his English patient not to eat as he does. Coloured engraving by Louis-Franc̦ois Charon.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • Lazarus prays as his sores are licked by dogs; Dives feasts on his balcony. Woodcut.
  • Lazarus's sores are licked by dogs as Dives feasts. Process print, 1931, after J. Lamsveld.
  • Lazarus prays as his sores are licked by dogs; Dives feasts on his balcony. Engraving.
  • Heads of hares, a goat, a boar, and an ass. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • The love of divinity and wisdom and its effects on shameful love and indulgence. Engraving after Pietro da Cortona.
  • Christ winnowing evil from the human heart; a penitent bathing in the blood and water from Christ's side; an angel locking a dragon in hell. Engraving by H. Goltzius, 1578.
  • Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.
  • A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of the base, 'natural' man. Etching, 1771, after J. Bakewell.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Ink drawing.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Ink drawing.