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  • Quassia Amara
  • James Gillray, 'The triumph of Quassia'
  • Surinam quassia wood (Quassia amara): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • Dissertatio medica inauguralis de quassia et lichene Islandico / [J.D.P.C. Ebeling].
  • Dissertatio medica inauguralis de quassia et lichene Islandico / [J.D.P.C. Ebeling].
  • Niepa Bark Tree (Quassia indica (Gaertner) Nooteb.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • W.M. Woodville, Medical Botany, vol. 2
  • John Bull making hop-tea in front of a hop grower and his workers; representing adulteration of beer by brewers. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1890, after himself.
  • John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.
  • A figure composed of barrels batters the drooping head of a thistle; representing the forced resignation of Lord Melville following implications of malversation and the vote on Whitbread's motion. Aquatint by J. Sayer, 1805.
  • A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.