Zaleucus having one of his eyes removed for one of his son's eyes, with six lines of verse by A. Montanus below. Line engraving by H. Quellinus after A. Quellinus.

A. Cornelius Celsus, profile bust on a pedestal. Engraving.

A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.

The Blessed (subsequently Saint) Francisco Geronimo y Gravina. Engraving by F. Gordillo, 1807, with letterpress.

Brighton College, Brighton. Wood engraving, 1849.

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