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  • A modern block of flats contrasted with a row of unhealthy terrace houses. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
  • Guy's Hospital, Southwark: the facades of a row of doctors' houses. Wood engraving by J. Walmsley after W. G. Smith, 1863.
  • Taboga Island, Panama: a row of grass-roofed village houses; a woman holding a baby and a child stand in one doorway. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • India: A(?)ituni people standing in a row, with palm trees and a grass-roofed house behind them. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, small houses to either side. Engraving, 174-.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with houses either side, ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1745.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with houses either side, ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1745.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, small houses either side. Engraving by J. Boydell after himself, 1753.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: ships and rowing boats in the foreground, many small houses either side. Coloured engraving by St. Torres, 1745, after T. Bonsot.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, seen from down river, with ships and rowing boats in the right foreground, houses in the distance. Engraving by J. Boydell after himself, 1751.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, seen from down river, with ships and rowing boats in the right foreground, houses in the distance. Engraving by J. Boydell after himself, 1751.
  • A noisy tenant and three of his friends, having stayed up singing until the early hours of the morning, go to the house of an elderly neighbour and disturb his sleep to ask him for glass of water and the loan of a shilling for a cab. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • Two disabled veteran sailors, employed by an admiral as messengers, delivering a letter to the servant at the front door of a town-house. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1790.
  • 'Gardan' for colds & flu.
  • Virginia: costumes, customs, and dwellings of the native Americans. Engraving, 1732.
  • Liberal and radical politicians as ballad singers (Thomas Wakley, Charles Buller, D. W. Harvey, Joseph Hume, Lord Brougham and J.A. Roebuck) sing a song sympathetic to Canadian rebels below the window of John Bull, who proposes to drench them with the contents of the house pail. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • A young soldier puts a coin into the hat of a wounded sailor as he knocks to gain entry to a brothel. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1781.
  • Group photograph of phisiologists at University College.
  • The House of Commons: the Speaker, Arthur Onslow (seated, centre), calling upon Sir Robert Walpole (left) to speak. Stipple engraving by R. Page after W. Hogarth and J. Thornhill.
  • Sadler's Wells and other places of resort beside the New River: two workmen digging a trench for water-pipes in the foreground. Etching by J. Swaine after himself, 1795.
  • A baby has been left outside the town-house of an old bachelor, and a young woman watches from the corner of the street. Engraving, 1794.
  • Fred Roper and some of his British wonder midgets.
  • Fred Roper and some of his British wonder midgets.
  • A group of men, some in drag, dancing the Promenade on a lawn.
  • A group of men, some in drag, dancing the Promenade on a lawn.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "Plantation", and St Pancras church in the background, with an advertisement and explanation. Engraving.
  • A Zulu medicine man dancing in order to detect which one of the women seated around them has bewitched their ruler. Gouache by W.R.S. Stott, 1928.