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  • Queen's Royal Volunteer Battalion.
  • King George III standing, in military uniform; horse in the background. Etching and stipple by B. Smith after W. Beechey, 1804.
  • King George III standing, in military uniform; horse in the background. Etching and stipple by B. Smith after W. Beechey, 1804.
  • King Edward the Confessor, holding a ring and a sceptre. Engraving by J. Smith, 1732.
  • Numerous naked figures laid out in the form of a family tree; advertisement for safe sex by Scottish Aids Monitor. Colour lithograph by J.P.Smith,1992.
  • Numerous figures laid out in the form of a family tree; advertisement for safe sex by Scottish Aids Monitor. Colour lithograph, 1991.
  • Trinity College, Dublin: Biological Association members on the steps of a College building. Photograph by J. Chancellor, 1893.
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
  • A lecture at the Hunterian anatomy school, Great Windmill Street, London. Watercolour by R.B. Schnebbelie, 1839.
  • A lecture at the Hunterian anatomy school, Great Windmill Street, London. Watercolour by R.B. Schnebbelie, 1839.
  • A lecture at the Hunterian anatomy school, Great Windmill Street, London. Watercolour by R.B. Schnebbelie, 1839.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • The anatomy of melancholy : what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and severall cures of it - in three maine partitions, with their severall sections, members, and subsections / philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut up by Democritus Junior [i.e. Robert Burton] - with a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.
  • James Bradley. Mezzotint by J. Faber after Thomas Hudson.
  • Saint Teresa: she is encouraged by Christ to bring aid to Bernardino de Mendoza in purgatory by building a convent on land given to her by Bernardino. Engraving by C. Warren after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it in three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [pseud.] With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.
  • The bones of the arm. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The muscles of the arm and palm of the hand and geometrical diagrams of the tendons and fibres of different muscles. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • Cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The bones of the hand (fig.1: palmar; fig. 2: dorsal) and the wrist (fig. 3: detail of carpal bones). Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi reading a book in front of a crucifix; a monk and a church in the background. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers the younger, 1743.
  • The muscles of the arm, elbow and shoulder and the bones of the lower arm. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The skin removed from the lower leg, exposing the muscles of the lower leg and the sole of the foot. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.