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  • Burdock Blood Bitters : invalid ladies : this is for you.
  • Burdock Blood Bitters : invalid ladies : this is for you.
  • Invalid ladies : this is for you : Burdock Blood Bitters.
  • [Leaflet bearing Field Marshal Tom Thumb's poetical address to the ladies].
  • Four elaborately-dressed ladies consulting books in a private library. Engraving.
  • Burdock Blood Bitters : invalid ladies : this is for you.
  • Burdock Blood Bitters : invalid ladies : this is for you.
  • A saddle, especially made for ladies to ride side-saddle. Engraving.
  • Burdock Blood Bitters : invalid ladies : this is for you.
  • Invalid ladies : this is for you : Burdock Blood Bitters.
  • Burdock Blood Bitters : invalid ladies : this is for you.
  • Jacob dreams of the heavenly ladder; he consecrates with oil the spot where he slept; he meets Rachel, who is tending sheep in the vicinity of a Mesopotamian city. Woodcut by S.H., 1568, after V. Solis.
  • Jacob offers bread and soup to an exhausted Esau, who has returned from hunting; to the left, angels move upon Jacob's ladder; to the right, the blind Isaac feels Jacob's disguised hands. Engraving by E. Kirkall after Skeitz.
  • Two ladies visiting a doctor. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1892.
  • Ashwood House, Kingswinford, Staffordshire : a private asylum for ladies and gentlemen.
  • A man is standing on a ladder, with a pot of paste on the ground as he sticks a poster to the wall. Etching by the Comte de Caylus and engraving by E. Fessard, 1742, after E. Bouchardon.
  • A diver and a personified condom holding a ladder discuss how to ascend the naked bottom of a woman standing within a barren orange landscape; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph by Robert Lindvig, 1991.
  • Napoleon in battle, an old man on horseback holding a child asks another child the way, a man carries a ladder or chair, a countryman carries a basket and two boys fight. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé.
  • China: three Manchu ladies inside a courtyard, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: three Manchu ladies inside a courtyard, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Two young ladies contemplating a tombstone in a graveyard. Mezzotint with engraving, 1803.
  • Two ladies indoors contemplate a house plant which is loosing its foliage. Mezzotint.
  • The dance of death: the maiden ladies. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • An iris; flowers and birds; two ladies, one with a baby. Ink drawings.
  • A man standing on a ladder holds up his hands to hold onto a telephone pylon to save himself from falling as a puzzled bird flies above; a safe-sex advertisement for Salama condoms to prevent AIDS. Lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A man enters a florist's shop and attempts to look up the skirt of the florist while she climbs a ladder to get him a wreath which is dedicated to his wife. Line process print by SGAP after A. Guillaume.
  • A pompous physician trying to impress the two ladies he is visiting. Etching, 1804.
  • A woman having her extraordinarily high wig covered with a protective cone by a maidservant and hair-dresser mounting a step-ladder; the woman's lover, who also wears a high wig and protective cover, sits at her feet. Reproduction of an engraving.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: Manchu ladies at a meal table. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: Manchu ladies at a meal table. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.