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  • Jacob Hall, a tightrope walker. Stipple engraving by E. Scriven, 1810, after J. van Oost.
  • A British administrator and retired physician driving a carriage at high speed, accompanied by an Indian servant. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker after Captain G.F. Atkinson.
  • Mrs Nightingale with her daughters, Florence and Parthenope. Photogravure by E. Walker after a watercolour, 1828.
  • A gathering at Joshua Reynolds's house: Oliver Goldsmith and Edmund Burke among the company. Stipple engraving by W. Walker, 1848, after J.E. Doyle.
  • A white man (magistrate or policeman?) holds a gun to the head of an Indian man as others retrieve bags of money buried in the ground. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker after G.F. Atkinson.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale assessing a ward at the military hospital in Scutari. Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, by E. Walker after W. Simpson.
  • Laying a cable on the Atlantic seabed: the crew of the Great Eastern launching a buoy in an attempt to retrieve a lost cable. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker, 1866, after R.C. Dudley.
  • A beggar dressed in ragged clothes walks on crutches begging for scraps. Coloured lithograph by E. Hull, 1825.
  • A young stag is entering the enclosure through a gap in the fence and walks down a rocky path to join a group of deer. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • Two gay men kiss as they walk beside a river with a church tower beyond; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Wolfang Mudra for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • A man in striped shorts and a cap walks down some stairs with another man representing an advertisement for AIDS prevention by AJCS (Association des Jeunes contre le SIDA) and the S.N.E.G. [Syndicat National des Entreprise Gay]. Lithograph.
  • St. Bernard's Well, Edinburgh, Scotland. Line engraving by W. Byrne, 1803, after G. Walker.
  • Group portrait, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, 1904
  • Poultry that are healthy as a result of taking Smith's egg and health producer (chicken feed). Wood engravings with letterpress (?), ca. 189-.
  • Les Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees: people walk along the mountain paths to the hot spas. Lithograph by E. Ciceri, 1858.
  • A neighbour checking on an old sick man and enquiring about what the doctor has said, the old man retorts that he has recommended exercise. Wood engraving by G. King, 1907.
  • A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.
  • A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.
  • A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.
  • A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.
  • Two wolves arguing. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1968.
  • Two wolves arguing. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1968.
  • Civil engineering: the pier at Madras, India, built using screw piles (helical piles). Wood engraving, 1863.
  • Silhouettes of figures with hearts walking representing an advertisement for the AIDS Walk for Life at Rundle Park Family Recreation Centre, Edmonton Canada, 3 Oct. 1993. Colour lithograph.
  • Silhouettes of figures with hearts walking representing an advertisement for the AIDS Walk for Life at Rundle Park Family Recreation Centre, Edmonton Canada, 3 Oct. 1993. Colour lithograph.
  • Dogs with their keepers at the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • Dogs with their keepers at the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • Dogs with their keepers at the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.
  • A naked woman kneels to drink from a water-jar held by another, then both walk away. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.