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  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a collector of paper money. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a collector of paper money. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • John 'Buckhorse' Smith, a man who allowed people to hit him in exchange for a small sum of money. Etching.
  • A monument positioned near the military hospital in Barbados, with passers-by. Lithograph by J. M. Carter, c. 1837.
  • A miser looks at his hoard of gold through his spectacles, with six lines of poetry by J. Gay. Stipple engraving by Balston.
  • A dwarf reading. Engraving, 1720.
  • An autopsy on an investor in the Dutch speculation boom of 1720 reveals that he had died of an excess of air, representing lack of value in the shares. Etching, 1720.
  • An autopsy on an investor in the Dutch speculation boom of 1720 reveals that he had died of an excess of air, representing lack of value in the shares. Etching, 1720.
  • A.J. Balfour as Prime Minister asks John Bull to pay for increasingly costly policies, but eventually John Bull refuses. Drawing by David Wilson, 1905.
  • A man personifying Canada is showing a fleet of ships to John Bull. Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: the foreign settlement. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: the foreign settlement. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • Six men appear puzzled and have their hands raised to their faces. Woodcut and letterpress.
  • George, Prince Regent, in uniform holding out a swollen hand which is supported by Wellington; representing the enormous amount of money given to the army compared with the navy. Coloured lithograph, 1816.
  • Ten surgeons discussing the cause of death of George Clarke, who died in riots at an election at Brentford in 1768. Line engraving, 1769.
  • 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.
  • Plain concise practical remarks, on the treatment of wounds and fractures; to which is added, an appendix, on camp and military hospitals; principally designed for the use of young military and naval surgeons, in North-America / By John Jones.
  • A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.