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  • Henry Brougham is praised by black ex-slaves for his part in their liberation, but criticized by children factory employees, on whom he turns his back. Lithograph by H.H. (Henry Heath).
  • Simple wooden leg - Henry Heather Bigg
  • A group of doctors parade a dummy with a skeleton's head representing cholera: a group of people run screaming from it. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath, 1832.
  • A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
  • Visitors to the gardens of the Horticultural Society of London in Chiswick, among whom is a man who rushes off believing he has an attack of the cholera. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1831.
  • A disgruntled gouty man with all limbs bandaged, a table covered in medicine bottles is next to him. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath.
  • A woman as Maria holds a pet lamb in her lap; representing Caroline Norton and her relationship with William Lamb, Lord Melbourne. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath, ca. 1836.
  • People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
  • An interior of a stylish pharmacy with the pharmacist serving a customer and an apprentice at work with the pestle and mortar. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1825.
  • The Devil and Death in a carriage. Etching by H. Heath, 1831.
  • A group of doctors parade a dummy with a skeleton's head representing cholera: a group of people run screaming from it. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath, 1832.
  • A barber brushing the hair of a man who has very little hair. Colour lithograph after H. Heath.
  • People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
  • Bransby Blake Cooper: he is attacked by a man holding a giant lancet, representing the Lancet (medical journal). Coloured etching by "Dicky Fubs" [H. Heath?], 1828.
  • People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
  • Three dandies smoking and drinking coffee. Lithograph after H. Heath, c. 1840.
  • A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
  • Four donkeys inhaling foetid gas and having their backs scrubbed with vitriol; representing John St. John Long's fatal method of therapy. Etching by H. Heath, 1830.
  • Two men with a physician, discussing the chameleon on the table before them. Coloured lithograph after HH.
  • An elderly land-lady taking a warming-pan to put in her lodgers bed, which is already occupied by someone else. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath.
  • Couples stand and sit around a dance floor, some women have fans and some are being asked to dance. Etching after H. Heath.
  • Saint Francis of Paula holding a crucifix, looking towards the sky, with the word Charitas. Engraving by C. Heath after H. Corbould, 18--.
  • Two African oxen with huge horns standing on a hillside. Etching by C. Heath, ca 1814, after H. Salt.
  • Geography: water spouts at sea. Engraving by C. Heath after H. Salt.
  • Women at evening prayers in a private home. Engraving by Charles Heath, 1826, after H. Singleton.
  • Macbeth and Banquo meet the three witches on a heath; scene from Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. Engraving by J. Heath, 1804, after H. Fuseli.
  • A shipwrecked woman holds on to the remains of a ship-mast waving for help in the stormy sea. Engraving by C. Heath after H. Warren.
  • A woman with two small children pleads for alms from a man dressed in a cape and feathered cap. Engraving by C. Heath, 1824 after H. Corbould.
  • Joseph Black. Stipple engraving by J. Heath after H. Raeburn.
  • Alexander Monro. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Heath, 1800, after H. Raeburn.