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  • A man with a magic lantern (slide projector) on his back is walking along a country path. Lithograph by Gavarni, 1854.
  • Children watching a magic lantern show. Coloured lithograph.
  • Children watching a magic lantern show. Coloured lithograph.
  • A lecturer (William Kitchiner?) about to address a lecture on optics with the aid of candles, a telescope and magic lantern to a seated audience, he is interrupted by a Kentish hop merchant. Coloured etching, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A cart laden with coins in sacks is dragged by a group of devils who are lashed by men armed with whips; representing William Wood's scheme to improve the Irish coinage. Engraving, 1724.
  • An optical experiment using a giant lens to reflect sun-rays to create fire, with optical instruments scattered and fountains in a Baroque setting. Line engraving by C.N. Cochin the elder, 1737, after J. de La Jouë.
  • Royal Liverpool University Hospital: a physiotherapist giving a lecture on the knee to elderly patients. Drawing by Julia Midgley, 1998.
  • Full paediatric sensory unit.
  • Sir Hugh Myddelton. Lithograph by Fussell, 1835, after C. Johnson, 1632.
  • The back view of a young male figure standing looking out to sea with his trousers rolled up with a message in Portuguese about AIDS discrimination. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Medical students observing an operation on a lantern screen via a projecting periscope located above the operating table. Halftone after H.W. Koekkoek, 1909.
  • Proposals for administering advice and medicines to the children of the poor / G. Armstrong.
  • Proposals for administering advice and medicines to the children of the poor / G. Armstrong.
  • Brighton College, Brighton. Wood engraving, 1849.
  • A man on a donkey and three drinkers toasting Bacchus: drinking song. Engraving and etching, 17--, after A.Corelli.
  • A man on a donkey and three drinkers toasting Bacchus: drinking song. Engraving and etching, 17--, after A.Corelli.
  • A gay man places his fingers in the bottom of another man representing a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by Gapa Minas Gerais. Colour lithograph by Daniela Goulart and Geraldo Valério ca. 1997.
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
  • A brick wall bearing graffiti in English and Spanish about AIDS and bottles of bleach with a billboard advertising the AIDS Information Line; advertisement by the Colorado Department of Health, Denver AIDS Prevention and Project Safe. Graffiti by Zoom One and Vince Manolo. Colour lithograph by Julee Wilets, 1989.