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  • The castle at Verneuil near Paris. Etching.
  • A pharmacist and his friend discuss the new tax on medicine; with four other scenes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot.
  • The yearly Ommegang pageant in Antwerp, 1685. Engraving by G. Bouttats.
  • An innkeeper adds water to his wine as his customer, a baker, kisses the landlady. Engraving by J. Lagniet, ca. 1663.
  • A Christian man being shaved while a Turk sharpens his scimitar on a whetstone behind, surrounded by representations of virtues and proverbs; representing the exposure of Europe to a Turkish invader. Engraving.
  • A Christian man being shaved while a Turk sharpens his scimitar on a whetstone behind; representing the exposure of Europe to a Turkish invader. Engraving.
  • A drunken street brawl between four young colporteurs and a man, with two accompanying couplets. Etching, 16th century (?).
  • The Duke of Marlborough bursting out of his tomb to protest against a song about him which had become popular in France in 1782. Etching, 1783.
  • "The adventures of Mr Preso": a condom holding an ice cream, a bunch of flowers, a heart and a banana; advertisement for condom cards. Colour lithograph by Pascal Blondeau, 1994, for ADIS, Association Départementale d'Information sur le SIDA et de Solidarité.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist. Etching by G. Reni.
  • A blurred view of the back of a man wearing a coat with a warning 'Don't allow AIDS to destroy friendship'; an advertisement for the AIDS Information Line by the Stichting AIDS Fonds. Colour lithograph.
  • A man on a beach trying to blow up an inflatable lifebelt for children who look on; representing the breath-problems that occur to smokers. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Hartstichting, ca. 2000.
  • Jan de Doot, a man who extracted a bladder-stone from himself. Reproduction of an engraving, after C. Visscher.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child and Catherine of Alexandria. Line engraving after Agostino Carracci after P. Veronese.
  • Mettray penal colony, Mettray, France: a general view. Lithograph by Sauvé and Faivre after A. Thierry.
  • An elaborate cross-section of Noah's ark, detailing the storing of provisions and livestock; scenes of loading and construction. Line engraving.
  • Rome, Palazzo Farnese: paintings of the loves of the gods by Annibale Carracci. Engraving by P. Bettelini and G. Volpato after A. Carracci, ca. 1800.
  • Cornelius de Venne. Line engraving.
  • The words 'Walk For Life' incorporating the AIDS red ribbon representing an advertisement for a fund-raising walk for AIDS in Amsterdam on 2 June 1996 by Stichting AIDS Fonds. Colour lithograph by Marga van Liemt.
  • A woman sitting at her dressing table; a hunter with a gun stands to the left, a maidservant to the right. Engraving by F.R. Ingouf, 1771, after G. Metsu.
  • Claude Deshayes Gendron. Line engraving by J. Daullé, 1787, after H. Rigaud.
  • Interior of a surgery with a surgeon treating a wound in the arm of a man, with a boy and five other figures. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • Interior of a surgery with a surgeon treating a wound in the arm of a man, with a boy and five other figures. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • Interior of a surgery with a surgeon treating a wound in the arm of a man, with a boy and five other figures. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • Interior of a surgery with a surgeon treating a wound in the arm of a man, with a boy and five other figures. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • Interior of a surgery with a surgeon treating a wound in the arm of a man, with a boy and five other figures. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A woman whispers into the ear of a man 'Turn it on' with an AIDS helpline; a safe sex advertisement in a collaboration with Leona Detiège, Flemish Minister of Employment and Social Affairs and the condom makers, Durex. Lithograph by VVL/BBDO, ca. 1995.
  • A man whispers into the ear of another man 'Turn it on' with an AIDS helpline; a safe sex advertisement in a collaboration with Leona Detiège, Flemish Minister of Employment and Social Affairs and the condom makers, Durex. Lithograph by VVL/BBDO, ca. 1995.
  • A labourer asks a gentleman for his wages so that he may get drunk; both represented as dwarfs. Coloured etching after M. Engelbrecht, 1715.
  • A father has died and is mourned by his wife and children, as his eldest son returns from the wars, distraught by his arrival too late to see his father alive. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1781, after J.B. Greuze.