Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
1,045 results
  • Diminutive humans attack a giant cat; a ghost-like figure sits in a flaming black boat in the top left. Colour woodcut, 1883.
  • Satirical cartoon, Grevy with midwife holding baby in forceps
  • One hundred demons stirring by night. Colour woodcut by Gyokuen, 1860s.
  • Franz Joseph Gall leading a discussion on phrenology with five colleagues, among his extensive collection of skulls and model heads. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • Franz Joseph Gall leading a discussion on phrenology with five colleagues, among his extensive collection of skulls and model heads. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • A tall woman wears short feathers in her headdress and a short woman wears tall feathers in hers. Etching by James Gillray, 1795.
  • A foppish doctor paying a house call on a young lady with her mother and baby; represented as a mule, a cat, a dog and a kitten respectively. Coloured etching, 1827.
  • A man walking along a country path is attacked by a bodysnatcher hiding behind a brick wall, who asphyxiates him by thrusting a heart-shaped plaster in his face. Coloured etching by Dickey Fubs, 1828.
  • Portraits of William Burke (1792-1829) and Helen McDougal (b. c. 1795), on trial in Edinburgh in 1828 for the West Port murders. Coloured etching, c. 1829.
  • Portraits of William Burke (1792-1829) and Helen McDougal (b. c. 1795), on trial in Edinburgh in 1828 for the West Port murders. Coloured etching, c. 1829.
  • A credulous congregation listening to a sermon by a fiery preacher. Engraving by T. Cook, 1798, after W. Hogarth.
  • Sir Jeffrey Dunstan, mayor of Garrett, presents an address from the Corporation of Garrett to William Pitt the younger, who wears a crown and sits on a commode. Coloured etching by F.G. Byron, 1788.
  • Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
  • Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
  • Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
  • Top: Daniel O'Connell as a cock supported by Jewish finance and the Roman Catholic church; below, O'Connell withdrawing from fighting a duel (?). Coloured lithograph by Robert Seymour, 1835.
  • Joseph Grimaldi dressed as a hussar standing before another actor in a clown's costume in a scene from the pantomime, Red Dwarf. Etching by W. Heath, ca. 1811.
  • One man vomits into a bowl as his companion lifts his wig and steadies the bowl. Etching by T. Sandars, 1773, after J. Collier.
  • A lady retiring to bed, and ordering her maid to look after her artificial aids to beauty (wig, teeth, glass eye etc.). Coloured etching by P. Roberts after G.M Woodward.
  • A tall thin man accompanied by a short fat lady carrying a fan. Engraving by J. Goldar, 1772, after S.H. Grimm.
  • Admiral Rodney stands between Britannia and Neptune. Etching by J. Gillray, 1782.
  • People living a life of fantasy as a result of being excessively influenced by reading novels. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1800.
  • Four women in a room being blown by the north wind: another is leading a man with a cane out of the door. Coloured etching by J. Gillray.
  • Five elderly ladies caricatured as young women performing a sacrifice in a classical tableau. Etching by J. Gillray, 1787.
  • A tailor and his wife are assisting two men into suits of clothing, although the clothes are ill-fitting. Etching.
  • The dance of death. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1808, after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1795/1797.
  • A crowd of people gathered on the quayside to send the Earl of Bute off to London. Etching.
  • Two university teachers walking in a crypt are tripped up and assaulted by students. Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1811.
  • Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.
  • A fat parson with large glass of port in hand is watched by a thin, naked man representing care (worry), and tells him to be gone. Coloured etching after G. Woodward, 1796.