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  • A raven (Corvus corax). Coloured engraving by Whimper.
  • Two boxers consulting a doctor. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1902.
  • A man being vetted by an insurance salesman. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1896.
  • A barn owl, long eared owl, raven, magpie and crow. Coloured etching by Lizars.
  • Saint Paul the Hermit being fed by a raven. Oil painting by a Spanish painter.
  • Saint Paul the Hermit being fed by a raven. Oil painting by a Spanish painter.
  • Man standing in a courtroom dock putting his case forward to the magistrate. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1904.
  • A seaman telling the ship's doctor that hard work is bad for him. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1898.
  • The prophet Elias fed by a raven; representing providence. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • A raven standing on a mountain overlooking a castle and a river. Coloured wood engraving by J. W. Whimper.
  • A skeleton dressed in a coat sits on a balcony and strokes a raven. Process print after Walter Appleton Clark.
  • A convalescing old lady asking her health visitor if she has recovered from her bout of flu. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1912.
  • A sailor running away from the ships dentist who is attempting to pull out one of his teeth. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1898.
  • An army medical officer trying to find out from an ignorant soldier if he knows where his arteries are. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1907.
  • A raven (?) perched on a rock beside a dead or dying stag, in a mountainous landscape. Etching after E.H. Landseer, 1825.
  • Birds of the crow family: four figures, including a crow, a raven and a rook. Chromolithograph by F. Gerasch after A. Gerasch, 1860/1880?.
  • Birds on common land outside a village: hen, cock, hawk, jay, muscovy duck, raven, cuckoo and hoopoe. Etching by F. Place after F. Barlow.
  • A black woman lies naked on top of a white woman; advertising safe sex for lesbians. Colour lithograph by Linette Raven for SAD Schorerstichting.
  • Saint Benedict: while he lives as a hermit in a cave near Subiaco, a raven protects him from poisoned bread. Engraving by T. van Merlen.
  • An anxious patient checking with his dentist that that if he has gas anesthesia he will not be robbed of his money. Wood engraving after L. Raven-Hill, 1908.
  • A dentist telling his patient in the middle of an operation that he has nothing to fear from revolutions as dentists are always spared. Reproduction of a drawing after L. Raven-Hill, 1924.
  • Daniel O'Connell in the character of Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge carries on his back a raven with the head of Lord Melbourne. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1841.
  • A doctor asking an elderly patient if he has taken a box of pills that he has prescribed, the patient retorts that he found the boxes difficult to swallow. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1906.
  • An exhausted nurse who has been looking after her patient for many hours asks when she may go to bed, the patient's mother retorts that she thought she was a trained nurse. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill.
  • A Scottish shepherd telling a doctor on the roadside about the death of his wife and how glad he is that he didn't take any of the medicine the doctor had prescribed for his wife. Wood engraving after L. Raven-Hill, 1908.
  • A changeling child : to be seen next door to the Black Raven, in West Smithfield, during the time of the FAIR, being a living skeleton, taken by a Venetian Galley, from a Turkish vessel in the archipelago ...
  • Saint Benedict of Nursia: while he lives as a hermit in a cave near Subiaco, a raven protects him from poisoned bread (represented by a snake emerging from a loaf). Engraving by J. Frey after G. Anziani after Carlo Cignani.
  • Saint Benedict of Nursia: while he lives as a hermit in a cave near Subiaco, a raven protects him from poisoned bread (represented by a snake emerging from a loaf). Engraving by J. Frey after G. Anziani after Carlo Cignani.
  • French sailors feeding manacled black slaves in San Domingo to ravenous blood-hounds. Engraving by J. Barlow, 1805, after M. Rainsford.
  • A lesbian couple smiling. Colour lithograph by Gebr. Silvestri for the Schorerstichting, 2001.