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  • Singapore: officers and men of the Royal Engineers employed in building fortifications. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1878.
  • Civil engineering: a Royal visit to the Suez canal, arrival (top), and the meeting of the waters (below). Wood engraving, c.1865.
  • Naval officers and men on a ship, dressed in the uniform of nine labelled ranks of the Royal Navy. Wood engraving.
  • Fifteen uniformed men, each of different rank in the Royal Navy, on the deck of a ship. Coloured lithograph, c. 1859.
  • Fifteen uniformed men, each of different rank in the Royal Navy, on the deck of a ship. Coloured lithograph, c. 1859.
  • The examination hall of Medicine and Surgery, Savoy Place, London. Wood engraving by [F.W.], [1885].
  • The examination hall of Medicine and Surgery, Savoy Place, London. Lithograph, [1885].
  • The examination hall of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons: Queen Victoria laying the foundation stone. Wood engraving.
  • World War II: engineers of the GHQ Middle East Forces (?) relaxing on the coast of Egypt (?). Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • World War II: engineers of the GHQ Middle East Forces (?) relaxing on the coast of Egypt (?). Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • A giant claw pierces the breast of a sleeping naked woman, another naked woman swoops down and stabs the claw with a knife; representing the surgical treatment of breast cancer. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • Crowded dark streets full of dead and dying people, bodies are being loaded on to a cart; representing cholera. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • A giant hand roaming through the dark streets of London, people and rats try to escape its grasp; representing bubonic plague. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • The angel of death (a winged skeletal creature) drops some deadly substances into a river near a town; representing typhoid. Watercolour, 1912, after R. Cooper.
  • Peter Barlow. Lithograph by J.S. Hooke, 1827.
  • Peter Barlow. Lithograph by J.S. Hooke, 1827.
  • A ghostly skeleton trying to strangle a sick child; representing diphtheria. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • A provocative naked young woman lying on a bed, death (a cloaked skeleton) sits at her side, a naked man walks away from the bed with his head bowed, towards a throng of diseased and dying people; representing syphilis. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.
  • A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.
  • A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.
  • A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.
  • Men building a road through the Malakand Pass, India (subsequently Pakistan). Wood engraving after C. de W. Crookshank and J. Nash, 1895.
  • An unconscious naked man lying on a table being attacked by little demons armed with surgical instruments; representing the effects of chloroform on the human body. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • An unconscious naked man lying on a table being attacked by little demons armed with surgical instruments; representing the effects of chloroform on the human body. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • An unconscious naked man lying on a table being attacked by little demons armed with surgical instruments; representing the effects of chloroform on the human body. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • An unconscious naked man lying on a table being attacked by little demons armed with surgical instruments; representing the effects of chloroform on the human body. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • Parts of a fire-engine. Engraving.
  • The Great Industrial Exhibition, Dublin, 1853: a hot-air balloon flies above. Lithograph.