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  • A vision of the first Mayor of London appears to the feasting Aldermen and warns them against luxury. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • The Lord Mayor of London kneels before King George III and presents a remonstrance on behalf of the City of London: the king has no time to read it as he is preoccupied with making buttons. Engraving, 1770.
  • To meet the archbishops and bishops : the Lord Mayor & the Lady Mayoress request the honour of the company of... July 8th... / The Mansion House, London.
  • Mary Squires the fortune teller foretells the future to Sir John Hill: she indicates that she has support from the Lord Mayor of London. Etching, 1753.
  • King Edward VI, seated on a throne, presenting the Charter of Bridewell Hospital to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London. Engraving by G. Vertue after H. Holbein, 1750.
  • The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I, including the agents for Venice and the estates and the Lord Mayor of London. Engraving by J. Basire after a drawing by William Camden, 1791.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, the Lord Mayor of London disembarking, greeted by the Governor [?], with rowing boats and barges to the left. Engraving by V. Woodthorpe, 1804, after E. F. Burney.
  • The procession of Francis Goodchild, Lord Mayor of London, in an elegant ceremonial coach, watched by a crowd on the ground and Frederick, Prince of Wales, with his consort, on a balcony. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1795.
  • Three officers in the City of London Corporation holding different types of sticks ("characteresticks"): Lord Mayor Crosby with a scourge for wheat-speculators; John Wilkes with a Herculean club for defeating corruption; and and a bull representing Frederick Bull, with the sheriff's staff of office. Engraving after S.L., 1772.
  • Sir Jeffrey Dunstan, mayor of Garrett, presents an address from the Corporation of Garrett to William Pitt the younger, who wears a crown and sits on a commode. Coloured etching by F.G. Byron, 1788.
  • Hôpital et dispensaire Français, London: forty-sixth anniversary banquet in the Hotel Cecil, London. Photograph by Fradelle & Young, 1914.
  • Jeffery Dunstan, a deformed eccentric. Engraving by J. Wilkes.
  • The water pump in Cornhill designed by Nathaniel Wright. Engraving by S. Rawle, 1800.
  • Francis Goodchild, now Sheriff of London, and his wife, framed by a sword and mace, preside over a grand banquet. Sitting at a table in the foreground various dignitaries gorge themselves contrasting with the poor petitioners waiting at the door. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1796.
  • Sir Matthew Wood. Mezzotint by W. Dickinson, 1817, after Lady Bell.
  • A physician examining urine. Engraving by A. Walker, 1763, after A. van Ostade.
  • A physician examining urine. Engraving by A. Walker, 1763, after A. van Ostade.
  • Opening ceremony for a new operating theatre at the London Hospital. Drawing by G.K. Jones, 1892.
  • Metropolitan Hospital-Sunday Fund: head of a nurse with a vignette of different types of patients as an appeal for funds. Colour lithograph, 1965.
  • Metropolitan Hospital-Sunday Fund: a cross with coins and banknotes, representing an appeal for funds. Colour lithograph, 1962.
  • Metropolitan Hospital-Sunday Fund: appeal for funds. Colour lithograph, 1957.
  • A man holding a skull. Oil painting by an English painter, 1615.
  • A man holding a skull. Oil painting by an English painter, 1615.
  • The first stone and inlaid coins of Holloway prison. Lithograph by C.M. Firth.
  • Rx 'Pepsencia'- Fairchild / Fairchild Brothers & Foster (Inc) New York.
  • Aldermen of the City of London Corporation represented as Chinese and as monsters in procession to Westminster to protest against the Treaty of Paris, 1763. Etching after J.H. O'Neale, 1763.
  • A framed picture falls off a cornice marked 'National Honour'; representing dishonour for Great Britain perceived by the Whigs in the Anglo-Spanish convention on the Falkland Islands. Engraving, 1771.
  • The Chevalier D'Eon meets bankers in a London office or coffee-house to discuss wagers placed on whether D'Eon was a man or a woman. Engraving, 1771.
  • A man is woken by the ghost of a friend calling to him: he crosses his bedroom in a nightshirt and holding a candle, and is annoyed to find it is a cat. Engraving, 1801.
  • McHula for mayor / [KP Foods].