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  • "Maistre Robert", a blind healer healing by laying-on of hands. Oil painting.
  • A boy in Granada rides on a donkey loaded with panniers as he leads his flock of goats. Engraving by C. Cousen after R. Ansdell.
  • Wellington and Peel, in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching, 1829.
  • Ten surgeons discussing the cause of death of George Clarke, who died in riots at an election at Brentford in 1768. Line engraving, 1769.
  • Two female patients taking advantage of a young inexperienced doctor's desire to please by taking up too much of his time. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1875.
  • The distinguished men of science 1807-8: a key to the identities of the sitters. Photograph of engraving by W. Walker, 1862, after Sir J. Gilbert.
  • A camel running. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Baroness Burdett-Coutts' garden party at Holly Lodge, Highgate, for members of the International Medical Congress, 1881. Oil painting by Archibald Preston Tilt and/or Alfred Preston Tilt and/or Arthur Preston Tilt, 1881-1882.
  • Baroness Burdett-Coutts' garden party at Holly Lodge, Highgate, for members of the International Medical Congress, 1881. Oil painting by Archibald Preston Tilt and/or Alfred Preston Tilt and/or Arthur Preston Tilt, 1881-1882.
  • A wig-seller dressing a wig on a stand in his shop; the wig-stands bear the heads of Tory politicians. Wood engraving by W.C.W. after R. Seymour.
  • A character in the play "The widdow Ranter": Semernia, a Native American queen, with two pageboys. Mezzotint by W. Vincent.
  • The Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of Oxford University, wearing academic robes and carrying a mace, instructs his Tory supporters portrayed as academics in gowns and mortar boards. Lithograph by John Doyle, 1834.
  • Foundling Hospital, London. Etching by H. Roberts, 1749, after J. Robinson after T. Jacobson.
  • The assumption of Queen Victoria. Photogravure, 1902, after A. Drummond, 1901.