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  • [Newspaper cutting (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London. There are others about the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent Street, Grimstone's Aromatic Regenerator (hair restorer) and J. D. Carr and Co.'s nutritious and health giving biscuits].
  • Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.
  • Virgil and A. Pollio deep in conversation above a bustling town and harbour, Saloninius (Pollio's infant son) lies in a cradle at their feet. Woodcut after Virgil.
  • Virgil and A. Pollio deep in conversation above a bustling town and harbour, Saloninius (Pollio's infant son) lies in a cradle at their feet. Woodcut after Virgil.
  • Aeson is rejuvenated by having his blood replaced by magic juices in a boiling vat; representing the process of self-destruction in order to attain the elixir of life. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs after Salomon Trismosin.
  • Aeson is rejuvenated by having his blood replaced by magic juices in a boiling vat; representing the process of self-destruction in order to attain the elixir of life. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs after Salomon Trismosin.
  • Aeson is rejuvenated by having his blood replaced by magic juices in a boiling vat; representing the process of self-destruction in order to attain the elixir of life. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs after Salomon Trismosin.
  • La Culture Physique, 1904, satire.
  • [Leaflet advertising Sunrider Foods from The Nutri Centre, Park Crescent, London and John Morley, Harley Street, London].
  • [Leaflet advertising Sunrider Foods from The Nutri Centre, Park Crescent, London and John Morley, Harley Street, London].
  • [Leaflet advertising Sunrider Foods from The Nutri Centre, Park Crescent, London and John Morley, Harley Street, London].
  • [Leaflet advertising Sunrider Foods from The Nutri Centre, Park Crescent, London and John Morley, Harley Street, London].
  • The viscount sits despondent in a chair, his wife indicates tiredness by stretching her arms, while a disapproving steward exits carrying a handful of bills. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.
  • C3bot1 toxin from Clostridium botulinum
  • Osteoclast pit
  • Dry Skin
  • Patras: Greeks rise up against the Turks and massacre them at the castle of Patras, 1821. Etching by V. Gaiassi, 1844.
  • Rodrigues Fruit Bats
  • Activities for November: a man cuts up wood with an axe, wedges and a mallet, while women gather and process flax. Engraving by W. Kilian after J.M. Kager.
  • Geranium robertianum (Herb robert)
  • Osteoblast montage
  • A woman with shears holding a sheep; representing June. Engraving.
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Snakes
  • Osteoblasts
  • Ten different types of wigs and hair pieces. Coloured engraving, 1875.
  • Anne Manning, a quack doctor, outside her cottage with Betty Upton. Etching, by W.J. White, 1818, after himself.
  • Anne Manning, a quack doctor, outside her cottage with Betty Upton. Etching, by W.J. White, 1818, after himself.
  • Osteocytes from calvarial bone
  • The heads and shoulders of five women with their hair combed back and dressed with chignons decorated with baubles, feathers and scarfs. Coloured line block, 1875.
  • Mrs Fitzherbert and George Prince of Wales represented as Adam and Eve standing under the Tree of Knowledge surrounded by the trappings of fashionable pastimes and vices, causing the devil to flee. Etching, 1786.