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  • At the Globe and Duke of Marlborough's Head in Fleet Street, is to be seen a bold Grimace Spaniard...
  • Two black women and a boy on Lake Chad are about to be led away into slavery by a Spaniard. Stipple engraving by E. Finden, 1843, after Perring.
  • An apothecary attempts to give an Englishman an enema but is restrained by an American; medical aid is prevented by a Frenchman and Spaniard; representing the problems caused for the English by the American war for independence. Line engraving, 1778.
  • An apothecary attempts to give an Englishman an enema but is restrained by an American; medical aid is prevented by a Frenchman and Spaniard; representing the problems caused for the English by the American war for independence. Line engraving, 1778.
  • A Spanish man on horseback. Coloured lithograph by J.F. Lewis, 1834.
  • An Spanish soldier facing an Italian soldier with their swords crossed. Coloured engraving by J. Chapman after C. Elliott.
  • A Spanish family picking lice or fleas from each other's heads. Coloured etching, 1812.
  • A Spanish family picking lice or fleas from each other's heads. Coloured etching, 1812.
  • A woman stands in the foreground on the far right, a man in a denim shirt on the far left with a woman and child, a man in a suit and a further woman behind them; an advertisement for AIDS prevention by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Consumption in Spain. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Spanish soldiers returning from the fighting line : the above picture shows wounded Spanish soldiers being conveyed to the hospital during the fighting now taking place at Melilla between the Spanish troops and the Moorish tribesmen.
  • Spanish soldiers returning from the fighting line : the above picture shows wounded Spanish soldiers being conveyed to the hospital during the fighting now taking place at Melilla between the Spanish troops and the Moorish tribesmen.
  • The funeral procession of the Dutch naval commander de Ruyter in 1677. Etching.
  • The execution of the Inca Emperor Atahuallpa on the stake, ordered by Pizarro. Line engraving with etching after E. Chappel.
  • Vincente Valverde trying to persuade the Inca to convert to Christianity rather than be massacred by Pizzarro. Engraving by W. Greatbach after H.P. Briggs.
  • Honda, Colombia: a wooden bridge over the river Gualí. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • Mérida city, Colombia. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • Foolish Sam, a mentally defective man in London. Etching by B. Nebot, ca. 1773.
  • Two miniature people, known as the Aztec Lilliputians, with their manager. Lithograph by G. Wilkinson.
  • A Spanish couple are dancing the boleras accompanied by a man playing the guitar. Coloured aquatint by J. Clark after Revd. William Bradford.
  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
  • English commerce is shown as a cow milked by the Dutch, the horns sawn off by the Americans and its milk drunk by the French and the Spanish, while an Englishman wrings his hands at this distressing sight. Etching, ca. 1780.
  • Entertainment ephemera. Box 1.
  • A Christian man being shaved while a Turk sharpens his scimitar on a whetstone behind, surrounded by representations of virtues and proverbs; representing the exposure of Europe to a Turkish invader. Engraving.
  • A Christian man being shaved while a Turk sharpens his scimitar on a whetstone behind; representing the exposure of Europe to a Turkish invader. Engraving.