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  • Hydraulics: six different kinds of waterwheel, used for lifting weights. Engraving c.1861.
  • Hydraulics: six different kinds of waterwheel, used for lifting weights. Engraving c.1861.
  • A man lifting weights exposes himself as his trousers fall down in front of a crowd. Colour process print after Taylor, ca. 1984.
  • A man lifting weights exposes himself as his trousers fall down in front of a crowd. Colour process print after Taylor, ca. 1984.
  • A man is tortured on an intricate contraption which combines a rack, a pulley and weights and lifted up by it before the inquisitor and his scribe. Wood engraving (?) after H. Soltau.
  • A man in a posing pouch bends, picks up a dumb-bell in each hand, lifts them above his head then lowers them to his waist. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A bending man in a posing pouch raises two dumb-bells from knee height to above his head, lowers them to his shoulders then bends to place them on the ground. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in a posing pouch bends, picks up a dumb-bell in his right hand, lifts it above his head then lowers it to his shoulder. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in a posing pouch bends, picks up a dumb-bell in each hand, lifts them above his head then lowers them to the ground. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in a posing pouch holds a dumb-bell in his right hand, straightening up as he raises it from knee height to shoulder height. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked man crouches, picks up a dumb-bell from the ground in his right hand, straightens, raising it to head height, holding it at arm's length from his body then lowers it to his waist. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man exercising his arm muscles on a pulley system with weights attached. Lithograph by W. Hunter.
  • A naked man plays tennis, lifts dumb-bells, walks on his hands and mounts steps. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked man bends to pick up a rock, lifts it above his right shoulder, throws it away and staggers against the wall on his right afterwards. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • On Thursday, July 17, 1845, Mr. Canfield! : The strongest man in the world! Whose extraordinary feats of strength have gained him the title of The American Samson! will appear and perform the following Herculean feats ... / Royal Albert Saloon.
  • God appears to Noah and his family; three cherubs hold him aloft. Etching after Raphael.
  • The Evelina Hospital, Southwark: the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting a small child. Process print by R. Taylor, 1891, after T. Walter Wilson.
  • E. Muybridge "Animal locomotion", plate
  • A man receiving water on his arm from a fountain of Aesculapius; representing the healthy consequences of water treatment at Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria. Colour lithograph by F. Rehm, 1902.
  • A man receiving water on his arm from a fountain of Aesculapius; representing the healthy consequences of water treatment at Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria. Colour lithograph by F. Rehm, 1902.
  • A weight-lifter sits on a bench with his weights at his side as someone offers him a steroid injection; a warning not to share vials and used needles for steroids; advertisement for The Steroid Project as part of the Kingston AIDS Project funded by the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada. Colour lithograph by Alice Whissell.
  • A weight-lifter sits on a bench with his weights at his side as someone offers him a steroid injection; a warning not to share vials and used needles for steroids; advertisement for The Steroid Project as part of the Kingston AIDS Project funded by the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada. Colour lithograph by Alice Whissell.
  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
  • Brazil: a member of the Von Wied expedition is digging into a turtle's nest to get at the eggs, another man wearing a long cape and a hat (Maximilian Prinz von Wied?) stands nearby, watching. Etching by W. Read.
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1979.
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1981.