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  • Freddie Forbes in drag impersonating Clara Bow. Photographic postcard by Fielding, 1929.
  • Freddie Forbes in drag impersonating Clara Bow. Photographic postcard by Fielding, 1929.
  • Woodcut: skeleton with right forearm
  • Anatomical drawing for or from a work by Vesalius.
  • Caricature of a dissection, Samuel Ireland, 1780-90
  • Don't gamble with your life National AIDS Committee
  • Saturn, seated right, is threatened by his three children Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. Engraving by G. Bonasone after G. Romano, ca. 1560.
  • The dance of death: Death sees two players playing at cards. Colour lithograph by Edward Hull, 18--.
  • Atte[n]de tibi quia morieris. Hodie mihi, et cras tibi. Si no[n] es pro te modo solicitus. Quis erit pro te i[n] futuro.
  • A congregation of Jewish mourners lowering a coffin into a grave during a funeral. Engraving by B. Picart, ca. 1733.
  • A sailor in drag posed behind a wooden fence.
  • A sailor in drag posed behind a wooden fence.
  • The Dutch anatomist Steven Blankaart (1650-1704) performing a dissection in an anatomy theatre, with seven observers. Engraving, 1687.
  • Cupid. Etching by P. Vitali after G. Reni.
  • A man, half human and half skeleton. Coloured etching after R. Dighton, 17--.
  • A doctor surrounded by four dead bodies writes out a prescription at a table, while to the right a man puts his sword into his scabbard after killing a man; indicating that the pen of the physician is mightier than the sword of the knight. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli.
  • A young nun digging a grave while another nun sits nearby. Process print after J.E. Millais, 1858-1859.
  • A young nun digging a grave while another nun sits nearby. Process print after J.E. Millais, 1858-1859.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child. Engraving by J. Boulanger after Raphael.
  • Sir W. Denison and others planting the first quinine tree in the Neilgherry hills, India. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862.
  • Sir W. Denison and others planting the first quinine tree in the Neilgherry hills, India. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862.
  • Sir W. Denison and others planting the first quinine tree in the Neilgherry hills, India. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862.