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  • Re-engagement owing to enormous success of Joe Elvin in a personally conducted trip on The Tram ("Fares, please.") ... : The extraordinary, phenomenal colossal Russian Fat Girl, Miss Lucie, the heaviest girl in the world. Aged 16 years. Weight 350 lbs. ... / Canterbury Theatre of Varieties, Westminster Bridge Road, S.E.
  • Paul and Virginie are found by their slave Domingue and their dog Fidele when they are lost in the forests of Mauritius. Engraving.
  • This is to acquaint the curious in general, that there is to be seen, from two in the afternoon, till nine in the evening, without loss of time : at the Crown in High-Street, Canterbury, the surprising Warwickshitre young lady, Miss Hawtin, from Coventry ...
  • This is to acquaint the curious in general, that there is to be seen, from two in the afternoon, till nine in the evening, without loss of time : at the Crown in High-Street, Canterbury, the surprising Warwickshitre young lady, Miss Hawtin, from Coventry ...
  • [British Red Cross Society leaflet about their international tracing and message service].
  • [British Red Cross Society leaflet about their international tracing and message service].
  • [British Red Cross Society leaflet about their international tracing and message service].
  • [British Red Cross Society leaflet about their international tracing and message service].
  • [British Red Cross Society leaflet about their international tracing and message service].
  • [British Red Cross Society leaflet about their international tracing and message service].
  • Separate portraits of Daniel Lambert and Edward Bright, 50 stone and 44 stone respectively. Engraving, 1806.
  • World War I: the German Navy attacking Allied nursing. Coloured chalk drawing by Louis Raemaekers, 1918.
  • World War I: the German Navy attacking Allied nursing. Coloured chalk drawing by Louis Raemaekers, 1918.
  • World War I: the German Navy attacking Allied nursing. Coloured chalk drawing by Louis Raemaekers, 1918.
  • A beautiful young albino woman. Stipple engraving, 1816.
  • Compendium anatomicum nova methodo institutum : ubi ars ipsa capitibus & divisionibus ita illustratur, ut omnia uno quasi intuitu conspiciantur, & eofirmiùs idcirco retineantur ; figuris æneis illustrata / Authore J. Case., D.M. Londiensi.
  • Pen-y-Gwryd, Wales: a mountaineering party seated outside Penygwryd Hotel, eight men, six women. Photograph by G.D. and A. Abraham, 1897.
  • British politicians including W.E. Gladstone, Rosebery, Chamberlain and Earl Spencer, in the role of British soldiers in Crimea in the painting 'The roll call' by Elizabeth Thompson (Butler). Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 13 February 1886.
  • People involved in the trial for fraud against Edwin Marshall Fox. Drawing by G.K. Jones, 1905.
  • A Church of England rector seated at table as a servant brings a roasted pig on a dish. Aquatint after G.M. Woodward.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • Baron Donderdronkdickdorff and Miss Quoltz: after their wedding, they quarrel and are surprised by a servant. Etching, 1810, attributed to I. Cruikshank and/or G. Cruikshank.