A naked woman and a suited man reach towards a condom packet as a man dressed in a long black cloak and hat holding a cat looms up behind with the moon beyond; a safe sex and anti-AIDS advertisement by Infoshare International. Colour lithograph, 1995.

Prisoners behind bars opening on to a yard in Moscow being visited by men and women at Easter. Wood engraving, 1890.

Children being bathed at a bath-house in a foundling hospital in Moscow. Engraving by C. Warren, c. 1810, after B. Picart.

Engineering: a wide-span wooden truss-beam roof. Engraving by J. Davis after R. Tredgold, 1820.

King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.

Anti-AIDS advert by Infoshare International

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