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  • Head of a husky. Lithograph by H. Hawkins.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • A man with an excruciating headache. Coloured etching by H. Cook, 1827, after M. Egerton.
  • A surgeon-apothecary shouts back from an open window at a request for a night-visit to a patient, sending pot plants and a cat flying. Coloured aquatint by H. Pyall after M Egerton (Ego), 1827.
  • An ill man taking a gargling mixture for a sore throat. Coloured aquatint by H. Pyall after M. Egerton, 1827.
  • 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 J.P.M. Jazet after H. Heath.
  • 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 J.P.M. Jazet after H. Heath.
  • A barber standing outside his shop confuses a passer-by with an ambiguously worded notice. Etching by R.W. Smart and aquatint by G. Hunt after W.H. Pyne.
  • St Olave's and St John's Grammar School, Southwark. Wood engraving by C. W. Sheeres after B. Sly, 1856.
  • Design for a parochial school. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1848, after G. Truefitt.
  • Design for a parochial school. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1848, after G. Truefitt.