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  • City of Oxford: from the gas works and meadows. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1835, after F. Mackenzie.
  • National school, Clerkenwell, London. Wood engraving by J.R. Jobbins.
  • City of Oxford: cityscape from the meadows, showing All Souls and Oriel Colleges, St. Mary's Church, Radcliffe Camera and the Bodleian Library. Line engraving.
  • The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge. Lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1842.
  • A Quaker family are sitting at the dinner table and the father has his hands together as he gives thanks for the food. Mezzotint by Charles G. Lewis after Alexander Fraser.
  • William of Orange attacks Louis XIV and James II, who are riding on an ass; Father Petre, confessor to the queen of England, rides on a lobster with the infant Old Pretender; Cardinal Faustenburg falls off a tortoise. Mezzotint by P. Schenck, c. 1689.
  • Deaf actors using sign language perform a play about Don Guzman to an audience in St Saviour's church hall, London. Wood engraving by G. Durand, 1877.
  • A baptism of a group of babies according to the Covenanter's rite in a stream in a valley. Line engraving with mezzotint by C. E. Wagstaff after G. Harvey.
  • King George III. Stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins, 1801.
  • Henry Sacheverell: nine episodes in his life marked with pips allowing the episodes to act as playing cards. Wood engraving, ca. 1900 (?) after engravings.
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1981.
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1979.
  • Foochow (Fuzhou), Fukien province, China: a church. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • Foochow (Fuzhou), Fukien province, China: a church. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • Admiral Lord Nelson's funeral car. Coloured etching with engraving, 1806.
  • Daniel O'Connell and the devil represented as the Siamese twins joined at the chest; representing alleged atrocities by Roman Catholics. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1829.
  • King Charles I. Engraving by W. Marshall, 1649.
  • King Charles I. Engraving by W. Marshall, 1649.
  • Thomas Dromgoole speaking at a meeting of the Catholic Board in Dublin; represented as Doctor Drum "letting the cat out of the bag". Coloured etching, 1813.
  • The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.
  • The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.
  • Portrait; Samuel Pegge (1704-1796)
  • Vignettes of Peel's first ministry. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
  • Bartholomew Fair, site of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, pictured in 1721. Aquatint with etching after T. Loggon, c. 1824 (?).
  • Bartholomew Fair, site of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, pictured in 1721. Aquatint with etching after T. Loggon, c. 1824 (?).
  • A futuristic vision: the advance of technology leads to rapid transport, sophisticated tastes among the masses, mechanization, and extravagant building projects. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • A futuristic vision: the advance of technology leads to rapid transport, sophisticated tastes among the masses, mechanization, and extravagant building projects. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • The coffin of W.E. Gladstone lying in state in Westminster Hall, attended by five men praying. Drawing by G.B. Scott after A. Kemp Tebby, 1898.
  • Samuel Wilberforce. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1871.
  • Samuel Wilberforce. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1871.