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  • Tav. 26. Tooth extraction and dental instruments.
  • Children playing at being adults; a boy sits at his dressing table having his hair dressed by a boy pretending to be a hair-dresser; another boy in the background folds clothes. Coloured lithograph by C. Bargue after H. de Montaut.
  • Virginie giving a bowl of food to a starving black slave woman who has fled from her master. Engraving by E. Rouargue, 1824, after A. Desenne.
  • Salomon de Caus incarcerated in the mental asylum of Bicêtre. Lithograph by Lafosse after J.J. Lecurieux, 1845.
  • A Chinese man is being led to execution by four men. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A Chinese man being garrotted attached to a cross; two guards watching him. Wood engraving, 1857.
  • A Chinese man's head after garrotting exposed in a wooden cage hanging from a pole; his four children standing in front of it. Wood engraving, 1857.