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  • The funeral of Tom Moody, a huntsman: members of the hunt cry "View-halloo" and "Tally-ho!" over his grave. Wood engraving after R. Seymour, 1831.
  • A mother visiting her son in a hospital bed following his operation during which she gave a pint of her own blood. Photograph, 1925.
  • Queens hospital, Birmingham. Etching.
  • The Earl of Strafford, going to his execution, stops to be blessed by Archbishop Laud; below, an executioner holds the head after the beheading in 1641. Line engraving with etching by J. Rogers after P. Delaroche.
  • The house in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, where Sir Isaac Newton was born. Etching, 18--.
  • The death of Lord Nelson on the quarter deck aboard HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving by J. Rogers after A. Devis, 1807.
  • Moses, with his rod and the table of the ten commandments. Etching by J. Rogers after S.W. Reynolds.
  • Saint John the Baptist as a child holding a lamb; scenes from his life and grottesche in the border. Engraving by J. Rogers after B.E. Murillo.
  • Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington. Engraving by W.T. Mote after Sir P. Lely.
  • As the personification of Charity, a woman is holding two children by her side. Engraving by J. Phelps.
  • Amherst College, Massachusetts: with small historic scenes around the border. Coloured line engraving.
  • A man with a carpetbag and an umbrella enters a lodging house and asks for a room, but the landlady rejects his request, thinking that his carpetbag identifies him with a man who had defrauded other lodging houses. Wood engraving after Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne).
  • The Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London: the opening by Queen Victoria. Steel engraving by H. Bibby, 1851.
  • The death of Lord Nelson on the quarter deck aboard HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving by W. Bromley after A.W. Devis, 1807.
  • A man of the Konyak Naga tribe, with plugs distorting his ears and a necklace indicating the number of heads he has cut off. Photograph.
  • Five men dressed in theatrical costume including a bride and groom.
  • Five men dressed in theatrical costume including a bride and groom.
  • Two sailors gazing lecherously at each other. Photograph, 192-.
  • Two sailors gazing lecherously at each other. Photograph, 192-.
  • A pharmaceutical business (John Bell & Co.): rooms for manufacture, dispensing, and shop. Etching by R.W. Macbeth.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • Two medicine vendors, their wives, cats and dogs arguing about the merits of their antiscorbutic pills. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury, 1774.
  • A pack-horse carrying bribes is sent by Robert Walpole from Westminster to Edinburgh. Etching by Charles Mosley, 1740.
  • Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, with a whip in one hand and a letter in the other, mounted on an ass with a human head. Etching with engraving, 1745.