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  • Saint Francis of Assisi inducing a hyena to a state of obedience. Etching by J.B.M. Pierre.
  • A personification of Obedience with her attributes is attacked from the sides by eight vices; above her appears Christ on the cross; (top left) the sacrifice of Isaac; (right) Jacob sends Joseph to his brothers; (below) three examples of disobedience, including the expulsion from Paradise. Engraving after H. Wierix .
  • Illustrated tantric scroll showing rewards devotees receive from worship and obedience to demi-gods. At the top, a mythical creature displaying features of various animals, e. g. tail of a peacock, the bill of a crow etc. Below, to the left, Mahakala and Mahakali, god and goddess of fire are illustrated, with to the right the Hakini or demi-god with seven faces, the middle face having three eyes.
  • Illustrated tantric scroll showing rewards devotees receive from worship and obedience to demi-gods. At the top, a mythical creature displaying features of various animals, e. g. tail of a peacock, the bill of a crow etc. Below, to the left, Mahakala and Mahakali, god and goddess of fire are illustrated, with to the right the Hakini or demi-god with seven faces, the middle face having three eyes.
  • A calm and obedient horse
  • A calm and obedient horse
  • 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.
  • To her most sacred Majesty, Catharine the second Empress of all the Russias, whose transcendent wisdom, admirable policy and parental affection, extended to every part of her vast dominions, have completed the immense work begun by the immortal Peter as a just tribute to this august princess, the avowed patroness of genius, and universal protectress of art, science and literature, these volumes are with the profoundest respect and gratitude dedicated by her imperial Majesty's most obedient and most devoted servant John Boydell / Tomkins scripsit, Ashby sculpsit.
  • Boer War: an army officer examines the scarred backs of whipped African deserters. Halftone after J. Finnemore after E. Prater.
  • A schoolroom; illustrating Biblical proverbs on the necessity of the discipline of children. Engraving by H. Goltzius.
  • Science: a parody frontispiece to the Penny Magazine, with humorous representations of the "March of intellect" movement. Lithograph by G. Davies, 1832, after C.J. Grant.
  • The St Bartholomew's Eve Massacre: men, women and children are thrown out of windows or slaughtered with swords and pikes on the streets of Paris in 1572. Engraving after D. Dodd, 1765.
  • A firing squad executing criminal soldiers. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • A young woman is sitting in a chair with a tapestry in a frame in front of her, trying to be distracted from the thought of her forced marriage. Engraving by W.H. Simmons, 1840, after J.H. Nixon.
  • A gathering at Joshua Reynolds's house: Oliver Goldsmith and Edmund Burke among the company. Stipple engraving by W. Walker, 1848, after J.E. Doyle.
  • Edith Mary Liddell; Ina Liddell; and Alice Liddell, sitting in a grassy landscape at Llandudno with a book. Engraving after W.B. Richmond.
  • The Farnese Hercules. Etching by R. Dalton, 174-.
  • A large flying machine with sails and propellers is travelling over a town. Colour lithograph by W.L. Walton.
  • King's College, Strand, London. Engraving by J. C. Carter.
  • The Apollo Belvedere. Etching by R. Dalton, 174-.
  • Flora. Etching by R. Dalton, 174-.
  • Adam looks in wonder at the divine cosmological plan, represented above him in astronomical figures on a scroll; Eve looks at Adam. Etching.
  • Muscles of the horse. Engraving by C. Grignion after F. Sartorius for J. Bridges, 1772.
  • Hermaphroditus sleeping. Etching by C. Grignion after R. Dalton, 1744.
  • The Apollino. Etching by R. Dalton, 1746.
  • Venus (Aphrodite). Etching by S.F. Ravenet after R. Dalton, 1746.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin). Stipple engraving by T. Woolnoth, 1827, after C. Dolci.
  • John Coakley Lettsom's house: south view of Grove Hill, Camberwell, Surrey. Coloured engraving by T. Medland, after G. Samuel, 1817.
  • John Coakley Lettsom's house: south view of Grove Hill, Camberwell, Surrey. Engraving by T. Medland, after G. Samuel, 1792.
  • Royal Hospital, Haslar, near Portsmouth: view from right. Coloured aquatint with etching by J. Wells, 1799, after J. Hall.