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  • Three mastiffs and a Polish huntsman are watching a dead bear tumbling down backwards off a rock. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A bear and a lioness are fighting on a crag in the mountains with the lion cub tumbling off the rock. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • Two footballers tumbling on top of each other on the pitch with the message about the risk of HIV in the heat of the moment; one of a series of three advertisements for safer sex by the Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Etienne and Etienne.
  • A glowing yellow and red fire and with figures tumbling into a pit as though hell in the foreground; an advertisement for a torchlight march entitled 'Fire and Tears' for World AIDS Day on 1 December 95 in the pedestrian area Mont-Blanc, Geneva sponsored by Groupe SIDA Genève, PVA Genève, Dialogai and AIDES Annemasse. Colour lithograph.
  • Two young women and two children shelter in a tumble-down cottage. Etching.
  • Lucifer's angels tumble out of heaven, their limbs entwined. Etching by R. Pranker, 176-.
  • A cart has been overturned by two men and a lot of children have tumbled out. Engraving.
  • A westerner capsizing a boat out of which tumble commodities of various sorts. Colour woodcut by Baiju Kunitoshi, 1883.
  • Potiphar's wife tumbles on her bed with a terrified Joseph. Stipple engraving by W. Nutter after R. Cosway, 1802.
  • A tumbled-down schoolhouse with children reading and an old man asleep on the window ledge. Wood engraving by W. Timms.
  • Fallen angels with animalized characteristics tumble from heaven under the sword of Michael. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.
  • Indian acrobats performing. Gouache painting.
  • A pair of Indian tumblers performing. Gouache drawing.
  • Mounted horsemen and soldiers in antique armour battling with a group of lions. Engraving by C. F. Le Tellier after P. P. Rubens.
  • Hall's Wine : the great restorative / Stephen Smith & Co., Ltd.
  • Trahcoma: visual acuity test
  • God appears at Babel to disperse the people into different tongues. Process print, 1894, after W. von Kaulbach.
  • A Dutch quack doctor out of his depth on a spirited horse; implying his medical limitations. Engraving.
  • A mother who believes that an "Infants preservative" (medicine for infants) will preserve her child from danger in a collapsing house. Coloured lithograph, 183-.
  • Nepal; village in the Rapti Valley, Terai, 1986
  • Mary and Joseph walk to Egypt with the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Pitau, 1666, after S. François.
  • A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
  • Fred Roper and his wonder midgets.
  • Fred Roper and his wonder midgets.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.