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  • 'Philijpÿn' helps a donkey to vomit while a 'Doctor Financier' examines a urine sample;; representing the state of Spain under the monarchy of King Philip V. Etching attributed to A. Allard, 1711.
  • A decrepit Louis-Philippe is made ready for an enema by François Guizot; symbolising Guizot's domination of the French government towards the end of the July monarchy. Lithograph by J.E. Deshayes, c. 1848.
  • The feminin' monarchi', or the histori' of bee's. Shewing their admirable natur', and propertis; their generation and colonis; their government, loyalti, art, industri; enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, etc. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim': and the sweet' profit arising ther'of / Written out of Experienc( by Charles Butler.
  • The feminin' monarchi', or the histori' of bee's. Shewing their admirable natur', and propertis; their generation and colonis; their government, loyalti, art, industri; enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, etc. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim': and the sweet' profit arising ther'of / Written out of Experienc( by Charles Butler.
  • Portrait of Queen Victoria, by Forestier, 1897
  • Queen Victoria as a young woman, by F.W. Wilkin
  • Henry VIII, 1540, by Holbein
  • Queen Victoria surrounded by her family.
  • Portrait of Queen Victoria, by D.J. Pound
  • Portrait of Princess Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise
  • Exhibition: Medicine under three Queens; Elizabeth, Anne and Victoria.
  • By permission of the ... Trustees of the Cottonian Library : this plate being a correct copy of King John's Great Charter taken from an original now remaining in the Cottonian Library, is to them most humbly dedicated by their most dutiful, and most obedient, humble servant, J. Pine.
  • The royal crowns : June 26 1902 : a crown of health.
  • The royal crowns : June 26 1902 : a crown of health.
  • The royal crowns : June 26 1902 : a crown of health.
  • The royal crowns : June 26 1902 : a crown of health.
  • King George III sits in his library pondering which advice to accept: to govern by law or by force. Engraving, 1771.
  • A wealthy doctor counting money. Lithograph.
  • Mercury lies dying from cholera, surrounded by ministers; representing the sickly state of the French economy in the 1830s. Coloured etching, c. 1832.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • Louis Désiré Véron and Bernard-Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac dissect Adolphe Thiers; symbolising the ousting of Thiers from the editorship of the Constitutionnel, the paper bought by Véron. Wood engraving by Dumont after A. Bertall, 1851.
  • Crimean War, England: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert inspecting the wounded Grenadier Guards in Buckingham Palace. Coloured lithograph by G. Thomas after himself, 1855.
  • Queen Victoria with her entourage visiting invalided soldiers at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham. Wood engraving, 1855.
  • Queen Victoria with her entourage visiting invalided soldiers at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham. Wood engraving, 1855.
  • Saint Napoleon. Coloured lithograph (?), 1843.
  • King George IV and entourage laden with provisions, about to embark from Brighton in the Royal Yacht; representing the extravagant monarch's distressed retreat from England at the time of the Queen's trial. Coloured etching by R. Cruikshank, 1820.
  • The transfer of the coffins of King Louis XVI of France and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, to the church St. Denis in Paris on 21 January 1815. Etching with engraving, 1815.
  • François-Alexandre-Henri Conneau. Line engraving by J. Roze after J.-B.F. de Fournier.
  • A blindfolded naked man is mowing a field with his scythe; representing the mercilessness of death. Engraving.