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  • Franz Joseph Gall leading a discussion on phrenology with five colleagues, among his extensive collection of skulls and model heads. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • The dance of death: the last stage. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A man drinking himself to death; represented by a skeletal death figure above him and bottles scattered all around. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • The dance of death: the undertaker and the physician. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A doctor with a garland of pill boxes, bottles and a clyster pipe; a publican with pipes, different bottles and a punch bowl. Etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • The dance of death: the death blow. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: skaters. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: the maiden ladies. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: the shipwreck. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • An old man with his arms around a young woman. Stipple engraving after Thomas Rowlandson.
  • A physician called out of bed by a hoax night call. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 18--.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • The dance of death: the pantomime. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.
  • A tall lean woman having a discussion with an obese man. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802.
  • The dance of death: the masquerade. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • William Pitt the younger and his ministers as anatomists dissecting the body of the Prince of Wales; representing Pitt's reduction of the powers of the regent. Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1788/1789.
  • Joanna Southcott the prophetess exposing herself to three physicians in order to validate her pregnancy. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1814.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • A barber's shop in which a fat barber places a wig on an old bald-headed man, an assistant barber who wears spectacles fits a wig on a stout man, in the righthand background a man sits on a chair facing a window, and in the lefthand foreground a dog fouls a wig. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • A man in pain receiving medicines from a housemaid. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson.
  • The dance of death: the kitchen. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • The dance of death: death by drowning. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Margate, Kent: a woman swimming in the sea; in the background people are looking out to sea from cliffs and a beach. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.
  • The dance of death: the last chase. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • The dance of death: the duel. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • The dance of death: the Bishop and Death. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A gouty patient in his room full of unproductive doctors. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.