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  • Edward Matthew Ward. Photograph by Mayall.
  • Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • A woman seated on the ground, torchbearer to left, below heads of plague victims. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • A man with a torch walking alongside a cart of plague victims; a woman is holding a dead child. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • A man seated holding a child plague victim, a woman is holding back another man. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • A terrified man realizing he has just contracted the plague, surrounded by a group of people. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • James Graham Marquess of Montrose on the way to his execution in the marketplace of Edinburgh. Process print after E. M. Ward.
  • Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • Solomon Eagle striding through plague ridden London with burning coals on his head, trying to fumigate the air. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner recounting his exploits to a small boy, showing him a print called "The blowing up of the Orient": his mother and a print pedlar (?) look on. Engraving by T. Holles, 1845, after E. M. Ward.
  • Oliver Goldsmith, as a medical student in Europe, supports himself by playing the flute. Engraving by W. Greatbach after E.M. Ward.
  • Dr Samuel Johnson reading the manuscript of Oliver Goldsmith's 'The vicar of Wakefield', while a bailiff waits with the landlady. Mezzotint by S. Bellin, 1845, after E.M. Ward.