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  • Condoms : not all gay men use condoms all of the time / The LADS Project.
  • 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.
  • Ladies and gentlemen at Bath brawling over the election of the Master of ceremonies. Engraving, 1769.
  • Two Chinese ladies! : the only female natives of the Celestial Empire, ever seen in Europe!.
  • First page of Chinese manuscript no. 99, including an illustration showing a group of Chinese ladies
  • Two ladies and a man in a turban discussing 'Nigog's magic pillules'. Pen drawing, ca. 1918.
  • Two Chinese ladies! : the only female natives of the Celestial Empire, ever seen in Europe!.
  • The Church of St. Bartholomew the Great and surrounding area; a view of Duke Street in West Smithfield, where a woman walks using crutches, a man on a ladder alters a street lamp and two dogs fight. Etching by J.T. Smith, July 1806.
  • Abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet demonstrating chemical experiments to a party of ladies and gentlemen. Engraving, ca. 1750.
  • A young lad pulls off a corpulent man's boots. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, c. 1840.
  • Four Indian ladies sitting under a tree next to a Shivling. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Two Persian (?) ladies sitting, one holding a musical instrument. Gouache painting by an Indian painter (?).
  • A young lad pulls off a corpulent man's boots. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, c. 1840.
  • Gentlemen and ladies equipped with torches visiting the catacombs beneath the city of Paris. Engraving with etching.
  • A boat capsized on the Thames leaving three ladies and four men swimming to the shore. Engraving.
  • The Duke of Wellington stands at the top of a ladder tearing down a poster while Lord Lyndhurst paints a message "bill stickers beware" with Lord Morpeth carrying a basket of bills and Lord John Russell looking on. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
  • James Graham lecturing from a podium, to a crowd of ladies and gentlemen. Etching by J. Boyne, 1783.
  • James Graham lecturing from a podium, to a crowd of ladies and gentlemen. Etching by J. Boyne, 1783.
  • A woman having her extremely high wig (which towers over her head in an oval form and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed with curling tongs by a French hair-dresser on a step-ladder; the woman's husband looks on through a small telescope. Engraving, c. 1771.
  • A woman having her extremely high wig (which towers over her head in an oval form and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed with curling tongs by a French hair-dresser on a step-ladder; the woman's husband looks on through a small telescope. Engraving, c. 1771.
  • Five elderly ladies caricatured as young women performing a sacrifice in a classical tableau. Etching by J. Gillray, 1787.
  • Gymnastics for ladies : a treatise on the science and art of calisthenic and gymnastic exercises / by Madame Brenner.
  • Gymnastics for ladies : a treatise on the science and art of calisthenic and gymnastic exercises / by Madame Brenner.
  • Food being served by charitable ladies to poor women in Paris. Wood engraving by H. Linton after E. Morin.
  • Gymnastics for ladies : a treatise on the science and art of calisthenic and gymnastic exercises / by Madame Brenner.
  • Gymnastics for ladies : a treatise on the science and art of calisthenic and gymnastic exercises / by Madame Brenner.
  • Gymnastics for ladies : a treatise on the science and art of calisthenic and gymnastic exercises / by Madame Brenner.
  • James Graham lecturing from a podium, to a crowd of ladies and gentlemen. Etching by J. Kay, 1785, after himself.
  • Animals dressed as gentlemen and ladies survey the medical advertisements on a wall. Coloured wood engraving by J. Grandville, 1853.
  • A man and a woman about to engage in sexual intercourse; two ladies watching in the background. Etching, ca. 1780.