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  • Etudes d'anatomie à l'usage des peintres / Par Charle [sic] Monnet peintre du roi gravé [sic] par Demarteau graveur du roi.
  • A patient telling her doctor that if she won a sweepstake it would do her more good than all his medication. Line block after C. Graves, 1932.
  • An ex-soldier entering a dentist's surgery with his gas mask on - for his operation with gas. Line block after C. Graves, 1934.
  • A medical officer enquires as to the veracity of a Scot's weak heart. Line block after C. Graves, 1919.
  • Melpomene, Polyhymnia and Erato. Etching by G. Duchange after B. Picart after E. Le Sueur.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo: he gives alms to the plague-victims in Milan. Coloured aquatint by L.A. Garneray, 1820, after Martinet.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo: with a rope around his neck, he kneels before the Cross in the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Coloured aquatint by L.A. Garneray, 1820, after Martinet.
  • The funeral procession of Philip V in Nôtre Dame in Paris in 1746. Etching by C.N. Cochin the younger, 1748.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child, Saint John the Baptist and Saint Elizabeth. Engraving by F. de Poilly and C. Simonneau after Raphael.
  • King Charles I. Engraving by A.L. Romanet after I.J. van den Berghe after A. van Dyck.
  • Charles de l'Ecluse [Clusius]. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu after himself after M. Rota.
  • A country fair: itinerant entertainers act on a stage, women and children look at a peep show, others dance to music provided by a man playing a hurdy-gurdy and boy playing a small trumpet. Engraving by C.N. Cochin the younger, 1740, after F. Boucher.
  • A man reading a grimoire, grinning; next to him a hooded man, kneeling on the floor, is holding a torch: they are conjuring up demons. Engraving by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger, 1750/1790.
  • A charitable lady visiting a sick man and his family: with a crest. Line engraving by N.J. Voyez, 1773, after C.D.J. Eisen.
  • A travelling medicine vendor. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635.
  • A travelling medicine vendor. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635.
  • A travelling medicine vendor. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child. Line engraving by C. Duflos and N. de Larmessin after Raphael.
  • The childless Sarah presents Hagar, her handmaid, to her husband Abraham. Line engraving by J.G. Wille after C.W.E. Dietricy.
  • A half-naked youth offers food to a snake coiled round a tree trunk. Engraving by C.-C. Bervic after J.-F.-L. Mérimée, 1798.
  • A young woman sits on a mountain side with a cow and a basket on the ground, spinnning yarn. Engraving by P. Laurent after Karel du Jardin.
  • Charles-Melchior Artus de Bonchamps, a Royalist leader, on his deathbed after the battle of Cholet, requests that captured Republican soldiers be spared execution. Etching by A. Burdet, 1845, after D. Raffet, 1841.