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  • World War I: Trinity College Cambridge, Neville's Court, occupied by wards of the 1st Eastern General Hospital. Watercolour by Walter Spradbery, 1914.
  • Saint Aquilinus of Milan intercedes before the Holy Trinity for people praying to him for protection against plague. Engraving by B. Kenckel, 17--.
  • The doorway of Trinity College Museums with printed text and floor plans, Dublin, Ireland. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1854, after B. Sly.
  • The Trinity appearing to the Virgin Mary, the apostles and evangelists and Saint Mary Magdalene (?) Engraving by A. Caprioli after M. de Vos.
  • A woman knitting while a cat plays with the wool in the woman's ward, Trinity Hospital, Edinburgh. Line engraving by T. Stewart after D. Wilson.
  • 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.
  • The Holy Trinity and Saint Mary (as the Blessed Virgin of Einsiedeln) with the Christ Child, Saint Meinrad and pilgrims. Photoengraving after the Master E.S., 1466.
  • 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. Pen and ink drawing.
  • 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. Coloured engraving by F. Huybrechts.
  • The Holy Trinity and an angel with captives, receiving intercessions from Saint John of Matha and Saint Felix of Valois representing the Trinitarian Order. Engraving by Castellus (G. Chasteau?).
  • The Holy Cross, surrounded by Saint Sebastian, Saint Roch, and Saint John Nepomuk, and (above) the appearance of the Trinity; serving as an amulet against plagues, witchcraft etc. Coloured etching.
  • 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. Engraving by B. Farjat after A. Scilla.
  • Encomium argenti vivi: a treatise upon the use and properties of quicksilver ... With some remarks upon the animadversions of Dr. Turner upon Belloste / By a gentleman of Trinity College, Cambridge [i.e. T. Dover].
  • 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. Line engraving by J. Rolls after Benvenuto Tisi, il Garofalo.
  • 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.
  • Top, the house where Isaac Newton was born, Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire; centre, a letter written by Isaac Newton from Trinity College Cambridge, 20 June 1682; bottom, interior of the observatory in Newton's house on St. Martin's Street, London. Etching by C.J. Smith, 1836.
  • Hepatica nobilis Mill. Ranunculaceae. Liverwort - not to be confused with the lichen of the same name. Distribution: North America. Liverwort (‘liver plant’): discontinued herbal medicine for disorders of the liver. The name and the use to which the Liverworts have been put medicinally is suggested, according to the doctrine of signatures, by the shape of the leaves which are three-lobed, like the liver. It is little used in modern herbalism but was employed in treating disorders of the liver and gall bladder, indigestion etc. It is highly toxic. Hepatica acutiloba was widely used for liver disorders in the 1880s, with up to 200,000 kilos of leaves being harvested per annum to make liver tonics - which eventually caused jaundice. Gerard (1633) calls it Hepaticum trifolium, Noble Liverwort, Golden Trefoile and herbe Trinity and writes: 'It is reported to be good against weakness of the liver which proceedeth from a hot cause, for it cooleth and strengtheneth it not a little. ' He adds ' Baptista Sardus[a Piedmontese physician fl. 1500] commendeth it and writeth that the chiefe vertue is in the root
  • Hepatica nobilis Mill. Ranunculaceae. Liverwort - not to be confused with the lichen of the same name. Distribution: North America. Liverwort (‘liver plant’): discontinued herbal medicine for disorders of the liver. The name and the use to which the Liverworts have been put medicinally is suggested, according to the doctrine of signatures, by the shape of the leaves which are three-lobed, like the liver. It is little used in modern herbalism but was employed in treating disorders of the liver and gall bladder, indigestion etc. It is highly toxic. Hepatica acutiloba was widely used for liver disorders in the 1880s, with up to 200,000 kilos of leaves being harvested per annum to make liver tonics - which eventually caused jaundice. Gerard (1633) calls it Hepaticum trifolium, Noble Liverwort, Golden Trefoile and herbe Trinity and writes: 'It is reported to be good against weakness of the liver which proceedeth from a hot cause, for it cooleth and strengtheneth it not a little. ' He adds ' Baptista Sardus [a Piedmontese physician fl. 1500] commendeth it and writeth that the chiefe vertue is in the root
  • Two Oxford dons manhandling a woman representing Religion, trying to pull her towards or away from the requirement that Oxford University should have to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. Etching by Athanasius Credo, 1773.
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo. Line engraving by P. de Jode after Sir A. van Dyck.
  • The first day of Creation: God, borne by a cloud, divides the light from the darkness. Line engraving by T. de Leu after M. de Vos.
  • The first day of Creation: God, borne by a cloud, divides the light from the darkness. Line engraving by T. de Leu after M. de Vos.
  • The first day of Creation: God, borne by a cloud, divides the light from the darkness. Line engraving by T. de Leu after M. de Vos.
  • A doctor in a strange hat. Watercolour, 1815.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child, with God and the Holy Ghost, and the heads of two monastic saints. Lithograph by N. Sanesi after Domenico Veneziano.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) and Saint Joseph with the Christ Child, receiving grace from God the Father and the Holy Ghost. Engraving by J. Wierix.
  • Abraham gives food to his three strange guests. Stipple engraving by G.S Facius and J.G. Facius, 1781, after B.E. Murillo.
  • Saint Etheldreda (Aethelthryth, Audrey). Anastatic print by H. Watling.
  • Throne of Mercy: God the Father, Christ crucified and the Holy Ghost being venerated by angels, Louis I Anjou, King of Sicily and Louis's mother Joan I, Queen of Sicily. Engraving after C. Orimina.
  • Oxford: cityscape view from the north. Etching by J. Whessell, 1825, after himself.