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  • Florence Nightingale. Mezzotint by C.A. Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.
  • Florence Nightingale. Mezzotint by C.A. Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.
  • Florence Nightingale. Coloured mezzotint by C.A.Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.
  • Florence Nightingale. Coloured mezzotint by C.A.Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.
  • Florence Nightingale. Coloured mezzotint by C.A.Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.
  • Textiles: several Indian workers spinning, and working at a loom. Stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins, 1797, after A.W. Devis.
  • A shepherd waving at his two dogs. Coloured line block after an engraving by C. Tomkins after W. J. Shayer.
  • Four boys and an old man working on the loom. Coloured stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins after A.W. Devis.
  • A rider and his horse trying to cross a small stream. Coloured line block after an engraving by C. Tomkins after W. J. Shayer.
  • A dog on a laboratory bench sits up and begs the prospective vivisector for mercy. Engraving by C.J. Tomkins, 1883, after a painting by J. McClure Hamilton.
  • A dog on a laboratory bench sits up and begs the prospective vivisector for mercy. Engraving by C.J. Tomkins, 1883, after a painting by J. McClure Hamilton.
  • A pack of dogs has hunted down a fox and is about to kill it. Coloured line block after an engraving by C. Tomkins after W. J. Shayer.
  • A man sits in a chair at the table smoking his pipe and watching two children playing on the floor. Stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins, 1805, after R. Westall.
  • A young couple stand under a tree: she holds a sheaf of corn in one hand, the young man clasps her other hand. Stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins after W. Lanranson (?).
  • The Trinity Hospital, Greenwich, with the sails of a ship in the distance. Coloured engraving by Angus after Tomkins, 1801.
  • A Romany fortune-teller is reading the palm of a young woman suffering unrequited love; two other Romany women are leaning over a fence and children are sitting around a fire. Etching by P.W. Tomkins after H.W. Bunbury, 1791.
  • The Vestal virgin Tuccia being inspected while carrying water in a sieve to prove her chastity. Etching by P.W. Tomkins,1798, after Sir J. Reynolds.
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins, 1816, after W.W. Hodgson after B. Tisi, il Garofalo.
  • To her most sacred Majesty, Catharine the second Empress of all the Russias, whose transcendent wisdom, admirable policy and parental affection, extended to every part of her vast dominions, have completed the immense work begun by the immortal Peter as a just tribute to this august princess, the avowed patroness of genius, and universal protectress of art, science and literature, these volumes are with the profoundest respect and gratitude dedicated by her imperial Majesty's most obedient and most devoted servant John Boydell / Tomkins scripsit, Ashby sculpsit.
  • Florence Nightingale as the lady with the lamp. Oil painting attributed to J. Butterworth.