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  • The portraits of Hendrick Daniels Slatius, Willem Perty and Jan and Abraham Blancaert surrounded by scenes of their violent deaths and their burials. Engraving with etching, 1623.
  • A rosary, a medallion of St Benedict, a charm said to cause loss of eyesight, and hands showing lines and features to be interpreted by palmistry (including lines forecasting violent death); all illustrating 'superstition'. Engraving.
  • Double picture: a person hanging from the gallows; a witch burning a sleeping couple while a demon figure carries off a child. Woodcut, 1790.
  • Daniel O'Connell and the devil represented as the Siamese twins joined at the chest; representing alleged atrocities by Roman Catholics. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1829.
  • Four scenes all involving water: trial by water, people using divination rods, and different types of rods. Engraving.
  • Martyrdom of Saint Emerentiana. Oil painting by a Spanish painter, 18th (?) century.
  • Sarah Thackray, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1873.
  • Sarah Thackray, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1873.
  • Winchester: tombstone of Thomas Thetcher, who "died of a violent fever contracted by drinking small beer", 1764. Photograph, 18--.
  • A blind man assisted by another man (Fritz Wrampe). Drawing by Fritz Wrampe, 193-.
  • A monstrous man clutching a fainted woman. Drawing by F. Wrampe, 193-.
  • Antiochus IV of Syria, sick and injured by a fall from his chariot, dictates his will as surgeons bandage his leg. Etching by N. Hallé, 1738.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.