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  • A boar-trap in the forest: a wild boar is killed in its wallow after releasing a self-timing shotgun. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • A soldier-horse with a shotgun attached to the saddle cloth standing in a field with a camp site in the background. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • Catherine Bigot, a deaf-mute woman whose deafness was so complete that she was unaware of a gun being fired above her head. Engraving.
  • A man making fun of a physician because he keeps two wild animals as pets, in a tent in India(?). Lithograph by R.J. Hamerton after himself.
  • Henri IV of France touching the head of a kneeling man for the king's evil (scrofula). Line engraving.
  • Bandits armed with guns drink with women outside an Italian country inn; in the foreground are a couple on horseback. Coloured etching by B. Pinelli, 1820.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • A honey-trap for a bear in the forest. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.