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  • Merchant Tailors' School, Suffolk Lane, London: facade. Etching by Sheppard, 1815, after himself.
  • A group of dandified tailors attending a lecture, given by a grotesquely fashionable tailor, on "anatomical cutting". Coloured etching by R. Seymour after himself, 1829.
  • Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Marratta tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A tailor and assistant at work. Gouache drawing.
  • Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • A tailor cutting cloth with scissors while his colleagues sew at a bench. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A shoemender and a tailor sitting on benches repairing old shoes and clothes. Etching by R. Dagley.
  • A tailor holding out a folding swatch of cloth samples. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
  • A tailor riding on the back of a goose; representing an exploited worker. Etching after W.H.Bunbury.
  • Singapore: three native people known as "klings", and one "dhirzie" or tailor. Photographs by J. Taylor, c. 1880.
  • The search : N. Kayser, merchant tailor, 256 West 31st Street, near 8th Avenue New York.
  • A tailor and his wife are assisting two men into suits of clothing, although the clothes are ill-fitting. Etching.
  • Composite heads: a fruiterer, a tailor, an armourer and a fisherman made of their respective instruments. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1800.
  • A tailor is attempting to make a coat fit his customer when it is much too large. Etching by J. Cooke after S. Collings.
  • Court hearing of a dispute in which a doctor refuses to pay his tailor for some unsatisfactory breeches. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Court hearing of a dispute in which a doctor refuses to pay his tailor for some unsatisfactory breeches. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A tailor fishing on a river bank is cowering away from a man with a large cosh hidden behind his back, who robs him of his hat, coat and boots. Lithograph after R. Seymour, 183-.
  • William Taylor, as a tailor holding a pair of scissors in one hand, a tape measure across his arm and a book of poetry in the other hand, riding on the back of a goose. Coloured etching, 1811.
  • In a room hung with black drapes to show mourning, Ramble Gripe, in the company of a pregnant woman holding out a ring, and her mother with a letter, is measured by a tailor; a coffin lid leans against the fireplace. Engraving by Thomas Bowles, 1735.
  • A man is woken by the ghost of a friend calling to him: he crosses his bedroom in a nightshirt and holding a candle, and is annoyed to find it is a cat. Engraving, 1801.
  • Punch, 28 December 1861, Charles Darwin
  • The shop of a tooth-drawer, barber, apothecary and blood-letter called "Dickey Gossip", with a song about him. Process print, 1931, after an etching, 1795.
  • The shop of a tooth-drawer, barber, apothecary and blood-letter called "Dickey Gossip", with a song about him. Process print, 1931, after an etching, 1795.
  • Six examples of "the march of intellect". Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1829.
  • The Merchant Taylor's School, Charterhouse, London: the new buildings. Wood engraving by B. Fleming, 1875.
  • Items of uniform of British army medical staff with the jackets, tunic sleeves and collars of different ranking officers. Lithograph, c. 1880.
  • Indian laundry couple with the man ironing clothes. Gouache drawing.
  • Groups of people with different trades and professions making demands for more pay and better working conditions. Coloured lithograph.