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  • A young man sings and turns the pages of the music as a girl plays the piano. Colour wood engraving (?) after George Cruikshank.
  • A drunken party for friends of a nobleman who has inherited a large estate. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
  • A young nobleman listens as a lawyer tells him he has come into his inheritance. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
  • A man suddenly awakened by two squalling cats. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • A pompous physician trying to impress the two ladies he is visiting. Etching, 1804.
  • A man fast asleep with his head back and wig dangling. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • A man with an excruciating headache. Coloured etching by H. Cook, 1827, after M. Egerton.
  • A bailiff (Mr Fixem, centre) calls on an affluent man (left) to enforce payment of a debt, assisted by his assistant (Bung, right). Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • A child holds a large bunch of holly and two others watch as a young woman stands on a chair to reach the picture she is decorating for Christmas. Colour process print.
  • A seated gouty man with his bandaged leg on a gout stool. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • Three people sitting yawning around a table. Etching.
  • A farmer duping a doctor. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
  • A fashionable middle-aged woman reprimanding a young male relative. Coloured lithograph.
  • A town gentlemen exclaiming to his servant about a extremely long doctor's bill. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1823.
  • An ill man next to his empty hearth tormented by the miseries of life; presented surrounded by assorted chastising demons. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
  • A sick man being visited by a reassuring friend. Wood engraving by H.B.
  • Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with other elderly people, taking laughing gas in the house of a tooth-drawer in Paris. Coloured aquatint, 1820.
  • Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with other elderly people, taking laughing gas in the house of a tooth-drawer in Paris. Coloured aquatint, 1820.
  • A gouty patient in his room full of unproductive doctors. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • A deaf man being made fun of and shouted at by his friends. Drypoint by A. Casanova y Estorach, 1877.
  • A misunderstanding between a doctor his patient and her daughter. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
  • A disgruntled ill man taking a large dose of medicine. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man suffering from headache in the form of devils. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835, after Captain F. Marryat.
  • A woman prepares to bathe a baby aided by an older girl who pours water into a bowl. Engraving after A. Chisholm.
  • A dishevelled nurse with her disgruntled patient. Coloured lithograph by W. Hunt.
  • A man suffering from indigestion; suggested by little characters and demons tormenting him. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835, after A. Crowquill.
  • A nobleman and his friends drink with prostitutes in a brothel. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
  • A man suffering from indigestion; suggested by little characters and demons tormenting him. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835, after A. Crowquill.
  • A dishevelled nurse with her disgruntled patient. Coloured lithograph by W. Hunt.
  • Dr. Flannel suggests to a fashionable lady that she wear a flannel petticoat to keep her legs warm. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807?, after G.M. Woodward.