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  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Tinted lithograph, c. 1866, after T. Allom.
  • A white man (magistrate or policeman?) holds a gun to the head of an Indian man as others retrieve bags of money buried in the ground. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker after G.F. Atkinson.
  • People watching flares warning steamboats that they are approaching shallow waters. Chromolithograph by Robert Carrick after J.M.W. Turner.
  • An episode in Samuel Foote's play The devil upon two sticks: the cobbler Emmanuel Last is examined for entry as a licentiate to the Royal College of Physicians by Dr Hellebore, the president of the college. Mezzotint by J. Finlayson after J. Zoffany, 1769.
  • The aqueduct seen from the island of Rhoda, Cairo, Egypt. Lithograph by D. Roberts, 1856.
  • Sepoy Rebellion: British officers travelling in panniers on the backs of camels and borne in a litter by Indian men. Tinted lithograph by W. Simpson, 1859, after G.F. Atkinson.
  • A monument to Lady Margaret Legh who is holding a babe to her chest. Etching by JB, 1794, after a tomb sculpture, 1603.
  • A monument to Lady Margaret Legh who is holding a babe to her chest. Etching by JB, 1794, after a tomb sculpture, 1603.
  • Sir John Soane's House and Museum: plans of the basement and ground floors, showing the heating arrangements. Lithograph by Day & son.
  • A barber's shop near Lincoln's Inn, London: a man answering an advertisement for the barber's assistant points to the advertisement in The times newspaper. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.
  • Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the Belzoni Chamber at basement level, showing the sarcophagus of Seti I. Engraving.
  • The surprizing life and death of Doctor John
  • The blind school, and, in the distance, Bethlem Hospital, Southwark. Coloured engraving by T. Albutt after [W.?] Read.
  • A chorus of singers rehearsing William Huggins' oratorio "Judith". Etching by W. Hogarth, 1732.
  • The blind school, Southwark. Coloured engraving, 1813.
  • Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford. Mezzotint by J. R. Smith, 1801, after himself.