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  • Napoleon climbing a headless skeleton trying to reach an unattainable crown; representing his imperial ambitions for France and his own for sovereignty. Coloured etching, 1803.
  • Russo-Japanese War: Red Cross nurses attending war casualties in a Japanese hospital; right, a European (?) man in formal military dress is standing to attention and facing right. Coloured woodcut, ca. 1904.
  • Russo-Japanese War: two Red Cross officers with a wounded Japanese soldier; in the foreground, a bamboo pole surmounted by the Red Cross flag is tied to a dead tree. Coloured woodcut, 1904.
  • Russo-Japanese War: members of the Japanese Red Cross attending to wounded Russian soldiers; inset above, two Russian soldiers attacking a Japanese woman and child. Coloured woodcut, ca. 1904.
  • Russo-Japanese War: the Russian tsar visits an admiral in hospital; the admiral's head appears as a bandaged ship. Coloured woodcut, 1904.
  • The execution of Joachim Murat in Pizzo, Calabria on October 13, 1815. Line engraving with etching by J. Romney after G.M. Brighty, 1816.
  • Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895: the Chinese ambassador (?) as a patient in bed, being treated with an icepack on his head, has a nightmare of the advance of the Japanese army. Coloured woodcut, 1895.
  • Corruption in the British government under Walpole, and its opponents represented by Caleb D'Anvers: seven scenes. Engraving, 1731.