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  • A hand-horse with harness, blinkers and girth standing in a paddock. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A young man holding his hand to his heart, emanating insensible perspiration. Colour stipple engraving by J. Pass, 1794, after E. Sibly.
  • A man leans over a seated woman who holds a glass and bottle in either hand. Mezzotint by J. Smith, 1702, after E. van Heemskerk.
  • A man leans over a seated woman who holds a glass and bottle in either hand. Mezzotint by J. Smith, 1702, after E. van Heemskerk.
  • Nerves of the foream and hand: posterior view. Coloured lithograph by William Fairland, 1839, after W. Bagg after W.J.E. Wilson.
  • Nerves of the forearm and hand: anterior view. Coloured lithograph by William Fairland, 1839, after W. Bagg after W.J.E. Wilson.
  • An elderly wretched man with a deformed hand, sitting on a table accidentally pouring a drink over himself. Coloured stipple engraving by E. Scriven, 1807, after J. Beresford.
  • Sidrophel vapulans: or, the quack-astrologer toss'd in a blanket / by the author of Medicaster medicatus, [i.e. J. Young] In an epistle to W[illia]m S[almo]n. With a postscript, reflecting briefly on his late scurrilous libel against the Royal College of Physicians, entituled, A rebuke to the authors of a Blue Book. By the same hand.
  • A woman suffering from chronic pellagra with dermatitis on her hands and face. Watercolour by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1925.
  • A woman suffering from chronic pellagra with dermatitis on her hands, neck and face. Watercolour by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1925.
  • (Left) an old woman sitting on a stool with a cat and warming her hands at a brazier; (right) an old man playing the hurdy-gurdy. Etching by E. Russell after J. Callot.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Etching by L. Flameng after Rembrandt, 1632.
  • Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Etching by J. de Frey, 1798, after Rembrandt, 1632.
  • Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Etching by J. de Frey, 1798, after Rembrandt, 1632.
  • Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Photograph after Rembrandt, 1632.
  • Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Etching by W. Unger after Rembrandt, 1632.
  • Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeon's Guild of Amsterdam. Mezzotint after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1632.
  • Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeon's Guild of Amsterdam. Mezzotint after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1632.
  • A naked man walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked man walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Héloïse as a nun in her cell contemplating the Holy Cross. Mezzotint by J.R. Smith, 1792.
  • A man wearing a wig and a cravat, holding the bagpipes and looking towards a woman on his right. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1743, after S. Leclerc.
  • A woman sitting in a chair playing the hurdy-gurdy and looking towards a man on her left. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1743, after S. Leclerc.
  • Fifteen professors at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Colour process print after C. Miksch, 1923.
  • Liber theoricae necnon practicae Alsaharavii ... qui vulgo Acararius dicitur: iam summa diligentia et cura depromptus in lucem [a Sigismundo Grimmo] / [Abū al-Qāim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāw-i].
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured etching, ca. 1825.
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured etching, ca. 1825.
  • Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford. Mezzotint by J. R. Smith, 1801, after himself.