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  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A woman in a state of attention without interest. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • A young woman playing with a bird, which she has on a string. Engraving by N. Dupuis, ca. 1727, after J. Raoux.
  • An election banquet. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1755.
  • King George III sits in his library pondering which advice to accept: to govern by law or by force. Engraving, 1771.
  • A fiery demon representing the chaos of the Paris Commune and more generally, the infernal results of the ideals of the French Revolution. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1871.
  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
  • Corruption in the British government under Walpole, and its opponents represented by Caleb D'Anvers: seven scenes. Engraving, 1731.
  • Fame proclaiming the virtues of the remedy Tabonuco Pectoral. Colour lithograph, ca. 1921.
  • Fame proclaiming the virtues of the remedy Tabonuco Pectoral. Colour lithograph, ca. 1921.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, performing with clarinets, wearing top hats. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, with saxophones. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, ready for tennis. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dressed for bed, kneeling to say their prayers. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, wearing swimsuits, posing as though about to dive. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, being wooed by two young men. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, sitting on a small grand piano, holding ukeleles. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dancing with two young men. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dressed in swimsuits. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dressed up for performance. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, taking tea. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, taking tea. Photograph, 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, one sewing, one using a typewriter. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, wearing fur coats. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, playing piano and ukulele. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dressed for golf. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, with piano and saxophones. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dancing. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, dressed to go out. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, head and shoulders, wearing fur coats. Photograph, c. 1927.