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  • Midwifery and other instruments, including forceps and a lamp. Engraving by W. Kelsall after C. Varley.
  • A clock dial on which a skeleton holds an oil lamp. Drawing by Caleb Elwin, 1800.
  • Ritter Mouth Lamp and Cabinet. Fig. 154, page 352 'Dental Electricity' by Levitt E Custer, 1901.
  • Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of spirit lamp [?]. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1802.
  • S S White Mouth Lamp. Fig 153, page 351, 'Dental Electricity' by Levitt E Custer, 1901.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale with her lamp at a patient's bedside. Colour lithograph, 1891, after H. Rae.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale with her lamp at a patient's bedside. Colour lithograph, 1891, after H. Rae.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the United States Incandescent Lamp Company exhibition stand. Photograph, 1904.
  • Saint Gudule holding a lamp; a castle in the background. Colour process print after A.M. Swan.
  • Lamp shells and ammonites from the Pacific Ocean, some cross-sectioned. Etching after B. L. Prevost, ca. 1798.
  • A female figure representing science trimming the lamp of life. Engraving by A. R. Freebairn, 1849, after W. Wyon.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: a lamp-post and a gate-post finial. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1845.
  • Left, an attendant carrying a diya (small lamp); right, a man weaving (?). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Victor Mouth Lamp for use upon the commercial current. Fig 155, page 353, 'Dental Electricity' by Levitt E Custer, 1901.
  • A Chinese man lies on a blanket watching smoke rise from a lamp. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Astronomy: an astronomer [?] in his study, reading by the light of a powerful lamp, wearing a pair of spectacles. Woodcut.
  • Enamelling: an enameller working at his lamp, operating bellows with his foot (top), equipment (below). Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • A man is pinned against a lamp post by the clothes-props that a street trader is selling. Coloured lithograph, ca.1840 (?).
  • A standing woman holding a lamp, with water flowing at her feet, perhaps representing Nature healing at German spas. Colour lithograph after Jupp Wiertz.
  • Sion College, London Wall, London: view of the north facade, with a man climbing a ladder to attend to a street lamp. Etching, 1800.
  • St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: a naked child, face covered with a cloth beneath a bright lamp. Photograph, c. 1935.
  • A group of young women and men are talking together in a room with a lamp on. Engraving by L. Stocks after Eugene Lami.
  • Florence Nightingale: a nurse looking up at a vision of Florence Nightingale as 'the lady of the lamp'. Colour process print after R. Kirchner, 1917.
  • Above, black lamp; below, drinking vessel with two handles, decorated with a winged figure holding an open box and an umbrella. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • Fame, with a lamp, hovering among clouds over the earth: around her are seven portraits of philosophers in ovals. Engraving by T. Millow, 1804, after R. Smirke.
  • A young woman with a lamp and a key is entering a cell in which a manacled man is tied to a pillory; illustration for a fable. Etching.
  • A young woman, wearing an apron and a cap, holding a lamp to light the shelf as she takes down a book. Mezzotint by P. Dawe after J. Foldsone.
  • A man holding an oil lamp and a dagger is standing next to a woman asleep in a canopied bed; Gothic window in the background. Coloured mezzotint, ca. 1800.
  • A boy dressed in checked trousers and a top hat is leaning against a lamp post as a policeman speaks to him. Coloured lithograph after J.V. Barret, ca 1860.
  • Above, red-figured Greek cup decorated with a naked man; below, red-figured Greek lamp decorated with a stylised leopard and a palm motif. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).