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  • An animal skeleton of the Megatherium, a human skeleton found in Guadeloupe and the fossilised remains of a bird. Engraving by J. Moffat.
  • The arrest of Robespierre after his failed suicide attempt. Steel engraving by A. Revel after T. Johannot.
  • The death of Robert Faulknor: he is shot while lashing the French enemy ship to his own ship. Etching and engraving by W. Bromley and C. Blackberd, 1801, after T. Stothard.
  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.