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  • A leopard guarding its meal. Etching by M. De Bye after P. Potter.
  • A leopard lying on the ground. Etching by M. De Bye after P. Potter.
  • The artist Paulus Potter sketching a milkmaid milking a cow, watched by a group of onlookers. Engraving after E.M.E. Le Poittevin.
  • A witch placing a scorpion into a pot in order to make a potion. Etching by F. Landerer after M. Schmidt.
  • A witch placing a scorpion into a pot in order to make a potion. Etching by F. Landerer after M. Schmidt.
  • A surgeon-apothecary shouts back from an open window at a request for a night-visit to a patient, sending pot plants and a cat flying. Coloured aquatint by H. Pyall after M Egerton (Ego), 1827.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • A wolf on the prowl. Etching after P. Potter, 1659.
  • Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.
  • Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.
  • Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.
  • Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.
  • An allegory celebrating Dutch painters. Engraving by J.A. Pierron after P. Peyron.
  • A hypochondriac at home with his anxious nurse. Wood engraving.
  • A man sits by a barrel-table smoking his pipe, behind others play cards and a woman enters the room. Engraving by P. Chenu after D. Teniers.
  • A man with tankard in hand leans by a window. Engraving by P. Chenu, 1756, after A. van Ostade.
  • A sick old man with the woes of old age. Engraving by B. Lépicié, 1745, after Etienne Jeaurat.
  • Ten surgeons discussing the cause of death of George Clarke, who died in riots at an election at Brentford in 1768. Line engraving, 1769.
  • Physicians, representing the Holy League against the Turks, gather around the sick sultan; representing the Peace of Karlowitz. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, ca. 1700.
  • People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.