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  • Two people reach out to touch the tree of life and hope surrounded by dragonflies, frogs, birds and a butterfly representing an Aboriginal depiction of the cycle of life and the role people must play to ensure an AIDS free future. Colour lithograph by Zane Saunders, March 1993.
  • Thomas Dromgoole speaking at a meeting of the Catholic Board in Dublin; represented as Doctor Drum "letting the cat out of the bag". Coloured etching, 1813.
  • A character in the play "The widdow Ranter": Semernia, a Native American queen, with two pageboys. Mezzotint by W. Vincent.
  • A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • The assassination of General Kléber in Egypt: Kléber is stabbed in the chest by a man in oriental dress outside his tent. Etching by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1815.