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  • Brass plate on the tomb of the Goodman family in Ruthin Church in Denbigshire, Wales. Engraving by R. Graves after G.P. Harding, 1823.
  • The factories of Lees' woollen manufacturers, Galashiels. Engraving by W.H. Lizars.
  • A storm at sea, with a sailing ship being wrecked on rocks. Etching by Claude Lorrain, ca. 1635-1640.
  • Types of steam-driven vehicles and flying machines. Colour process print after Robert Seymour, ca. 1830.
  • A group of politicians debate at a coroner's inquest whether Lord Melbourne's temporary resignation was equivalent to murder or to suicide. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1839.
  • The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery ; as they were presented to the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times ... / Transcribed from the true copies of Her Majesties own receipt-books, by W.M. one of her late servants.
  • The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery ; as they were presented to the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times ... / Transcribed from the true copies of Her Majesties own receipt-books, by W.M. one of her late servants.
  • The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery ; as they were presented to the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times ... / Transcribed from the true copies of Her Majesties own receipt-books, by W.M. one of her late servants.
  • Burdett, Peel, O'Connell and Wellington in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull with a rope; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.
  • John Coakley Lettsom, physician, with his family, in the garden of Grove Hill, Camberwell.
  • A masonic tribute to the duchess of Leinster, a governess of Lock Penitentiary, Dublin: she is attended by Virtue and Fame. Etching by H. Brocas, 1794.
  • Hieronymi Fabricii ab Aquapendente ... Opera anatomica. De formatu foetu. De formatione ovi & pulli. De locutione, & eius instrumentis. De brutorum loquela. Cum indicibus capitum et rerum notatu dignarum.... Et figuris aeneis / [Fabricius].
  • Politicians from the Opposition proceed down Whitehall to remove Sir Robert Walpole from office. Etching by F. W. Fairholt, 1848.
  • Ten surgeons discussing the cause of death of George Clarke, who died in riots at an election at Brentford in 1768. Line engraving, 1769.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.