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  • Many people are busy in the baker's kitchen preparing cakes, pastries, pies and bread. Engraving by Benard.
  • An old Napoleonic soldier sits dreaming in his armchair with pipe in hand, below a poem entitled "À ma pipe". Engraving after N.-T. Charlet.
  • An old Napoleonic soldier sits dreaming in his armchair with pipe in hand, below a poem entitled "À ma pipe". Engraving after N.-T. Charlet.
  • Death tramples on three female allegorical figures representing sensual pleasures. Etching by Hieronymus Wierix.
  • Death tramples on three female allegorical figures representing sensual pleasures. Etching by Hieronymus Wierix.
  • Jean-Théophile Desaguliers. Line engraving by E. Desrochers, ca. 1720.
  • A poor family starves in the centre of Paris: a workman brings them a bowl of soup, a banker for a "Philanthropic bank" ignores them, public funds are spent on a new stock exchange, and books are advertised advocating self-help. Lithograph by Villain after N.-T. Charlet, 1840.
  • A demon stealing albums from a print-seller's stall. Lithograph by Charlet, 1825.
  • A man points to a sheet of music as he and four others sing. Etching attributed to J. de Saint-Igny, ca. 1630.
  • A man wearing spectacles is singing from the songbook he is holding as three others join in and a fourth man keeps his mouth shut. Etching attributed to J. de Saint-Igny, ca. 1630.
  • A man wearing spectacles and a feathered hat is singing from the songsheet he is holding: two men join in, while two others listen. Etching attributed to J. de Saint-Igny, ca. 1630.
  • A choir of six grotesque people singing from a songbook open on a shelf. Etching attributed to J. de Saint-Igny, ca. 1630.
  • A female foetus of six inches in length with over-developed genitals. Engraving by J. Daullé after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • Three figures of foetuses with hermaphroditic genitals. Engraving by J. Daullé after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • A choir of grotesque singers read from a printed sheet held up at the corners. Etching attributed to J. de Saint-Igny, ca. 1630.
  • Jean Baptiste Verduc. Line engraving by P. Drevet after Charpentier.
  • Nicolaus Le Pois [Lepois, Piso]. Engraving by P. Woeiriot de Bouzey, 1585.
  • Claude Deshayes Gendron. Line engraving by J. Daullé, 1787, after H. Rigaud.
  • The execution of rebels during the Rebellion in Naples and Sicily in 1647. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux, with engraving by J. Aliamet, 1781.