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  • Sugar: a plantation of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and processing equipment in the foreground. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.
  • Sugar: a plantation of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and processing equipment in the foreground. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.
  • Sugar: a plantation of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and processing equipment in the foreground. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.
  • Natal, South Africa: workers cutting sugar cane on a plantation. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • A sugar cane plant (Saccharum officinarum), its flower and sections of stem, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
  • A sugar cane plant (Saccharum officinarum), its flower and sections of stem, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
  • Sugar attack
  • West Indian sugar-growers making gin for the British market at the expense of Scottish grain farmers. Aquatint by Samuel de Wilde, 1808.
  • Promotion of oral rehydration therapy, Lesotho
  • Free trade represented as a woman: the left half is a skeleton being cursed by unemployed and starving British workers; the right half is a beautiful young woman who is giving gold to importers of foreign goods. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 21 November 1886.
  • Crystallised ginger, SEM
  • Crystallised ginger, SEM
  • Crystallised ginger, illustration
  • Chrysalis, paintings exploring women in science
  • Chrysalis, paintings exploring women in science
  • Hidden Learning : Chrysallis, paintings exploring women in science.
  • Mérida city, Colombia. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • John Coakley Lettsom, physician, with his family, in the garden of Grove Hill, Camberwell.