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  • The interior of a draper's shop with figures carrying and measuring cloth. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A drinking-horn (rhyton) in the form of the head of a deer: outline drawing with measurements. Engraving, 17--.
  • Physical properties of Vincent's cryptotoxic bodies; measure of the superficial tension of horse serum after addition of various cryptotoxic bodies. Ink drawing.
  • The Hamilton vase: a wine-mixing bowl (krater) painted with a monument in which are a man with a horse, and with other figures; outline drawings from side with measurements. Engraving, 17--.
  • The Hamilton vase: a wine-mixing bowl (krater) painted with a monument in which are a man with a horse, and with other figures; outline drawing from front with measurements. Engraving, 17--.
  • Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
  • Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
  • An ornate garden monument with women seated either side holding garden plans and design implements. Etching by J. Schynvoet after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
  • The moon, viewed in full sunlight. Stipple engraving by J. Russell, 1805.
  • The moon, viewed in full sunlight. Stipple engraving by J. Russell, 1805.
  • The moon, viewed in full sunlight. Stipple engraving by J. Russell, 1805.
  • Proportions of the human body: four figures of the Farnese Hercules and the Laocoön group, with proportions marked. Line engraving by W. Grainger, 1788/1795, after G. Audran (?).
  • Wigs classified into five different orders in a parody of the orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1761.
  • A greyhound, écorché. Chalk drawing attributed to J.F. Lewis.
  • Photoreceptors, illustration. This series, called 'Histograms', consists of small, playful drawings based on histological slides, and are brightly colored, illustrative and cartoon-like. They are scaled to recall the view through a microscope; the view to a slide specimen covered by a thin square glass plate.
  • The Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London: the entrance and anatomical theatre, in elevation and section, with plans. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Elmes after C. R. Cockerell, 1823.
  • An exhumed mummy in St. Stephen's Crypt in Westminster. Chalk lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852.
  • Long standing perforating ulcer of the foot
  • Tubercular ulcer on the left cheek of a woman
  • Un feto - a handwritten case study of an teratological case
  • Un feto - a handwritten case study of an teratological case
  • Un feto - a handwritten case study of an teratological case
  • Un feto - a handwritten case study of an teratological case
  • Sarcoma on the cheek of an old woman
  • Walled city with lone horseman, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Lord Rosebery and two other politicians represented as caterpillars searching for leaves in a barren landscape. Drawing by A.S. Boyd, ca. 1895.
  • Girl, aged five years, with ectopia vesicae
  • Location of the gaohuang point, Chinese woodcut, 1443
  • Two men studying a corpse by the light of a candle stuck in its chest. Etching after a drawing attributed to Polidoro Caldara (Polidoro da Caravaggio).
  • Two men studying a corpse by the light of a candle stuck in its chest. Etching after a drawing attributed to Polidoro Caldara (Polidoro da Caravaggio).