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  • Nun who accompanied F. Nightingale to the Crimea, 1854
  • Annie Chinery Cameron as Zuleika. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, ca. 1872.
  • Annie Chinery Cameron as Zuleika. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, ca. 1872.
  • Annie Chinery Cameron as Zuleika. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, ca. 1872.
  • Tianjin (Tientsin), China: exterior of Notre Dame des Victoires Cathedral. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Tianjin (Tientsin), China: exterior of Notre Dame des Victoires Cathedral. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Two women comforting a boy while a monk sits beside in despair. Wood engraving after Jessie MacGregor, 1872.
  • Russo-Turkish War: Princess of Roumania's Hospital at Bucharest. Wood engraving by C. Roberts, 1877.
  • The Virgin of Belen and the hermitage of the Sierra de Cordoba. Etching by Bartolomé Vazquez, 1795.
  • A young man offers his hand to help a young woman cross a bridge over a brook, but she turns back as the bridge is too narrow. Engraving by W. Angus, 1793, after T. Stothard.
  • English hospital in Beira, Mozambique: staff, patients and the Lady Superintendent, Mrs. Goodman. Ink wash and gouache drawing by F. C. Dickinson, 1901, after E. Watts.
  • An apothecary praying for a host of illnesses to descend on his customers so that he can make more money. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Coloured etching by
  • A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G. Woodward.
  • A girl is brought by an old woman to visit her former foster-mother and wet nurse in a cottage. Engraved by E. Mohn after M. Ritscher.
  • The Holy Trinity and Saint Mary (as the Blessed Virgin of Einsiedeln) with the Christ Child, Saint Meinrad and pilgrims. Photoengraving after the Master E.S., 1466.
  • Troops attending a muster in Scotland play the game of popinjay, watched by crowds of local people. Engraving by J. Carter, 1836, after R.B. Davis.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Unmarried mothers being brought before a court hearing and judged severely. Woodcut.
  • Autolycus, a seller of trinkets, reciting a list of his wares to women and a shepherd who watch and point to them. Engraving by Lumb Stocks after C.R. Leslie.
  • Electrical appliances exhibited at the 1882 Electrical Exhibition, including chandeliers and the first telegraph instrument. Wood engraving, 1882.
  • People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • A sister of the Sultan of the Ottoman empire being conveyed in her official carriage drawn by two oxen. Engraving by J. Jenkins after T. Allom.
  • A young man removes his hat as he is introduced to a young lady by an older man. Engraving by W. Basell after himself, 1842.