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  • Benjamin Franklin. Line engraving by P. A. Le Beau after P. Marin after J. S. Duplessis, 1778.
  • Antoine Petit. Line engraving by P. Laurent after A. Pujos, 1774.
  • A female barber shaving a man. Mezzotint by J. Gole.
  • A father has died and is mourned by his wife and children, as his eldest son returns from the wars, distraught by his arrival too late to see his father alive. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1781, after J.B. Greuze.
  • A seated painter in his garret painting a nude female figure who kneels her right knee on a stool beneath a window. Engraving by Le Fèvre after Francique.
  • A man is leading a woman and her baby on a donkey with their belongings and a flock of sheep, attended by other people. Engraving by P. Laurent after P.J. de Loutherbourg, ca. 1777.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • François Gigot de La Peyronie. Line engraving by P. A. Le Beau after H. Rigaud.
  • François Gigot de La Peyronie. Line engraving by P. A. Le Beau after H. Rigaud.
  • Germain Pichault de Lamartinière. Line engraving by P.A. Le Beau after C.-L. Desrais.
  • A woman standing at her dressing table and arranging her bodice; upon the dressing table is a power box and puff, two perfume bottles and a mirror upon which perches a bird. Engraving by P.A. Le Beau after P.A. Baudouin.
  • Benjamin Franklin. Line engraving by P.A. Le Beau after C.L. Desrais after C.N. Cochin, junior, 1777.
  • Antoine Petit. Line engraving by P.A. Le Beau after C.-L. Desrais.
  • A woman feeding her baby while her husband reads a book in a rural domestic environment. Engraving by P.A. Le Beau after A. de Gelder.
  • A woman feeding her baby while her husband reads a book in a rural domestic environment. Engraving by P.A. Le Beau after A. de Gelder.
  • Michel Philippe Bouvart. Line engraving by P.A. Le Beau after C.-L. Desrais.
  • Michel Philippe Bouvart. Line engraving by B. L. Henriquez, 1776 after F. Bourgoin.
  • A woman breast feeding her baby in the family's home and workshop; perhaps a comparison to the Holy Family. Engraving by J. Le Bas and P. Martini, 1772, after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640.
  • Panorama of Poissy. Etching by I. Silvestre.
  • A large man carrying a tankard and a wooden half-barrel is singing, representing Jean Ramponneau and his drinking establishment in Paris, Engraving, 1760.
  • René Descartes. Line engraving by E. Ficquet, 1767, after F. Hals, 1649.
  • A tiger hunt, showing a dismounted hunter being set-upon by tigers (or leopards?), while his fellow exotically-dressed hunters look on in horror. Engraving by J.J. Flipart, 1773, after F. Boucher.
  • An artist before a crowd painting a shop sign. Lithograph by F. Le Villain, 1822, after H. Bellangé.
  • Saint John the Baptist. Engraving by S. de La Vallée after Raphael.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child, Tobias, Saint Raphael the Archangel and Saint Jerome. Engraving after Marco da Ravenna after Raphael.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.