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  • A Scottish sheriff, advertising Sherriffs ointment for skin diseases. Colour lithograph.
  • A Leicester tup standing in a field. Etching by T. Landseer after J. Sheriff.
  • A draught-stallion standing in front of a wooden palisade. Etching by T. Landseer after J. Sheriff.
  • The shadow of a native American man wearing a head-dress emerging from flames; warning to native Americans to practice safe sex by using condoms by the American Indian Health Care Assocation. Colour lithograph by Christopher Sheriff and Edward Sheriff Curtis, 1990.
  • An owl spreads its wings clutching its prey beneath the moon; warning that AIDS is a prolonged death by the American Indian Health Care Assocation. Colour lithograph by Christopher Sheriff, 1989.
  • A cat with the head of Sir Robert Peel gazes at a cage trap containing the Sheriff of Middlesex, Evans, held by Lord John Russell. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1840.
  • A native American holding a drum stick with feathers and decorative hangings with a list of ways you can and can't get AIDS; advertisement by the American Indian Health Care Assocation. Colour lithograph by Christopher Sheriff, 1989.
  • A candle in the dark: or, a treatise concerning the nature of witches and witchcraft: being advice to judges, sheriffes ... what to do, before they passe sentence on such as are arraigned for their lives, as witches / [Thomas Ady].
  • Have handy Sherriffs Ointment : the great cure for eczema, erysipelas, herpes, nettlerash, itch, bad legs, old sores, cuts. It is healing, soothing and antiseptic / Alexander Sherriffs.
  • Francis Goodchild, now Sheriff of London, and his wife, framed by a sword and mace, preside over a grand banquet. Sitting at a table in the foreground various dignitaries gorge themselves contrasting with the poor petitioners waiting at the door. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1796.
  • Three officers in the City of London Corporation holding different types of sticks ("characteresticks"): Lord Mayor Crosby with a scourge for wheat-speculators; John Wilkes with a Herculean club for defeating corruption; and and a bull representing Frederick Bull, with the sheriff's staff of office. Engraving after S.L., 1772.
  • Lord John Russell, as an auctioneer with Sir Robert Peel as his clerk, auction a bundle of papers inscribed "law of libel", "trial by jury" and "bill of rights"; Daniel O'Connell, a prospective bidder, examines a paper marked "Magna Charta". Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1840.
  • Opening ceremony for a new operating theatre at the London Hospital. Drawing by G.K. Jones, 1892.
  • A man holding a skull. Oil painting by an English painter, 1615.
  • A man holding a skull. Oil painting by an English painter, 1615.
  • Troops attending a muster in Scotland play the game of popinjay, watched by crowds of local people. Engraving by J. Carter, 1836, after R.B. Davis.
  • The house of Charles White on King Street, Manchester. Coloured lithograph by A. Aglio after J. Ralston, 1823.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from melancholia. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.
  • An old man diagnosed as suffering from senile dementia. Colour lithograph, 1896, after J. Williamson, ca. 1890.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from chronic dementia. Colour lithograph, 1896, after J. Williamson, ca. 1890.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from mania. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from hilarious mania. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.
  • Aldermen of the City of London Corporation represented as Chinese and as monsters in procession to Westminster to protest against the Treaty of Paris, 1763. Etching after J.H. O'Neale, 1763.