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  • A gigantic human skull, representing death, spewing out poison in the form of warships armed with poison gas. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale with her lamp at a patient's bedside. Colour lithograph, 1891, after H. Rae.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale with her lamp at a patient's bedside. Colour lithograph, 1891, after H. Rae.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and her staff nursing a patient in the military hospital at Scutari. Coloured lithograph, c. 1855, by T. Packer after himself.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and her staff nursing a patient in the military hospital at Scutari. Coloured lithograph, c. 1855, by T. Packer after himself.
  • World War II: members of the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS) making gauze bandages. Drawing by E. Hudson, 1942.
  • Russo-Turkish War: Princess of Roumania's Hospital at Bucharest. Wood engraving by C. Roberts, 1877.
  • Crimean War: women nurses tending wounded soldiers as "woman's mission". Coloured lithograph by J.A. Vinter, 1854, after H. Barraud.
  • Boer War: the Princess of Wales at the National Bazaar in aid of war victims, being presented with a bouquet of flowers. Halftone after B. Salmon, 1903.
  • World War One: a military doctor is dressing the wound of a Russian woman soldier in a trench. Watercolour by F. Matania, 1917.
  • Body stretching / [British American Tobacco].
  • Body Stretching
  • Soldiers pillaging a village. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Soldiers sacking a mansion and torturing its inhabitants. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Malcolm Scott, smoking a cigarette. Photographic postcard by J.G. Capstaff, 191-.
  • Malcolm Scott, smoking a cigarette. Photographic postcard by J.G. Capstaff, 191-.
  • Daniel O'Connell in theatrical costume defends himself with two daggers from two women wielding daggers who are restrained by the Duke of Wellington and Lord Roden; Lord Eliot with a halberd is dressed as a beefeater. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.
  • Malcolm Scott in character as an English queen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Malcolm Scott in character as an English queen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Malcolm Scott in character as a "Gibson Girl". Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Malcolm Scott posing for a portrait. Photographic postcard, 1906.
  • Malcolm Scott posing for a portrait. Photographic postcard, 1906.
  • Malcolm Scott in character as a "Gibson Girl". Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Head of a woman soldier, a member of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service). Colour lithograph after Abram Games, 1944.
  • Malcolm Scott in character as Boudica.
  • Malcolm Scott in character as Boudica.
  • A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
  • A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
  • Members of the British National Hospital Service Reserve attending to someone who has been injured; advertising recuitment to the National Hospital Service Reserve. Colour lithograph, 1951 (?).
  • A fiery demon representing the chaos of the Paris Commune and more generally, the infernal results of the ideals of the French Revolution. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1871.