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  • A thin, anxious patient consulting a doctor. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
  • A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A domestics couple of low caste. Gouache drawing.
  • Head servant with his wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • The birth of Pyrrhus, his mother Deidamia (?) recovers in bed while servants wash and tend him. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1797, after A. Carracci.
  • A Paria cook and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A man bearing a hooka. Coloured stipple print, c. 1828.
  • A servant asking her employer's dentist to fill one of her teeth. Process print after T. Evans, 1929.
  • A lady retiring to bed, and ordering her maid to look after her artificial aids to beauty (wig, teeth, glass eye etc.). Coloured etching by P. Roberts after G.M Woodward.
  • An obese gouty man with his feet in buckets. Coloured aquatint.
  • Two female patients taking advantage of a young inexperienced doctor's desire to please by taking up too much of his time. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1875.
  • A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A doctor enthusiastically examines a patient's stools. Colour process print after F.L. Gottlob.
  • A physician examines a patient's stools; he is very pleased; the sarcastic maid asks him if he would like a fork. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison, c. 1890.
  • An obese doctor acknowledging the favours of a French chef in his kitchen; denoting their complicity, the chef's food providing patients. Coloured etching by C. Williams, c. 1815.
  • A patient forcing a doctor to take some of his own medicine. Coloured engraving, 1794.
  • A Mrua medicine man or shaman with his assistants, Central Africa. Coloured wood engraving after V.L. Cameron.
  • An obese gouty man in trouble, while his attendants cavort. Coloured lithograph by T. Rowlandson.
  • A large Chinese man sits on a rock fanning himself as his pipe-bearer stands by. Etching by J. Caldwell, c. 1796, after W. Alexander.
  • A wealthy Mohammedan smoking a hooka as two attendants fan him. Engraving by J. Stephenson, 1835, after W. Daniell.
  • A female servant holds a small child while its fashionably dressed mother touches its face on her way out. Wood engraving by J. Thompson, 1840, after D. Wilkie.
  • A woman holding her child while a servant holds a bowl of food to feed her. Engraving by A. Nargeot after himself after J. Verkolje the elder, 1675.
  • A gouty man seeking comfort in licentious surroundings. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1785.
  • A lecherous old man leans over to a molest a woman who holds a bottle and drinking glass. Mezzotint by J. Smith, c. 1700, after A. van Ostade.
  • A wealthy family arriving at a hotel and being greeted by the proprietor. Engraving.
  • The birth of John the Baptist. Etching by C. Maratta after himself.
  • A baffled doctor taking the pulse of a love-sick young woman, her maid slips a billet-doux secretly into her hand. Coloured lithograph.
  • A gouty man seeking comfort in licentious surroundings. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1785.
  • A Russian nobleman riding with his servant and smoking a hooka. Coloured lithograph by D. Dighton, c. 1820, after A. Orlowski.