Two Jack-in-the-box boxes: one opened, showing Jack as the late Lord Randolph Churchill; the other closed, representing the National show secretary. Drawing by E. Fairhurst, 1896.

Seamen Orphan Institution, Liverpool, Merseyside: Lord Derby laying the first stone. Wood engraving.

Liverpool Southern Hospital, Liverpool, Merseyside. Tinted lithograph, 1867, after Culshaw and Sumners.

Charles James Fox, dangerously ill, visited by an entourage of interested factions; representing the social and ministerial conflict surrounding him. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1806.

British inventors, politicians and military men, gathered in a room at Buckingham Palace. Engraving by C.G. Lewis, 1863, after T.J. Barker.

British inventors, politicians and military men: a key to the identities of the sitters. Engraving by C.G. Lewis, 1863, after T.J. Barker.

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