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  • Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
  • A town gentlemen exclaiming to his servant about a extremely long doctor's bill. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1823.
  • A futuristic vision: the advance of technology leads to rapid transport, sophisticated tastes among the masses, mechanization, and extravagant building projects. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • A printing press with a pair of legs brandishes a quill wrapped around with hissing snakes and sends all those around it flying off. Coloured etching by Paul Pry (William Heath).
  • Joseph Grimaldi dressed as a hussar standing before another actor in a clown's costume in a scene from the pantomime, Red Dwarf. Etching by W. Heath, ca. 1811.
  • A windy day at Margate: a man accidentally bumping into another man, and knocking out his last tooth. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1810.
  • A futuristic vision: the advance of technology leads to rapid transport, sophisticated tastes among the masses, mechanization, and extravagant building projects. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • The gouty King George IV relaxing before nine portraits chronicling his past extravagant styles of dress; representing the King's attempt to withdraw from public ridicule. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1824.
  • A smartly dressed woman examining the head of a military man. Coloured etching attributed to W. Heath, ca 1830.
  • Wellington and Peel compared with the Siamese twins (above); a rich bishop and a poor parson; and a street vendor of figurines. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
  • The gouty George IV using tongs to pass his discarded wig to Wellington; representing the Duke's appointment to office as First Lord of the Treasury. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
  • Female apes in human clothes are brawling, restrained by male apes in human clothes. Etching by W. Heath.
  • Lord Grenville, Prime Minister and leader of the Broad Bottoms faction, meets Sarah Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus": on account of their similar body-mass, a dynastic marriage is considered. Coloured etching attributed to W. Heath, 1810.
  • Irish emigrants in America: a woman with two children, and a man sitting outside an inn smoking a pipe. Coloured etching after William Heath.
  • An apothecary riding a velocipede (bicycle) in the form of a pestle and mortar. Coloured etching, ca. 1819.
  • A woman is turning a wheel which is tightening the string around a girl's waist in order to make it smaller. Coloured etching by W. Heath, ca. 1830.
  • The Duke of Wellington kisses the toe of the Pope, while Roobert Peel holds a rosary; representing Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by William Heath, ca 1829.
  • A woman is turning a wheel which is tightening the string around a girl's waist in order to make it smaller. Coloured etching by W. Heath, ca. 1830.
  • Robert Peel as a pugilist attacking night watchmen with the intention of replacing them by the police force. Etching by Paul Pry (W. Heath).
  • Joseph Grimaldi rides on horseback behind Richard Norman astride a tiny horse in a hunting episode of the pantomime, Red Dwarf. Etching by W. Heath, ca. 1811.
  • Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, eating and drinking to excess. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • Doctor Jukes pumping the stomach of Sir W. Curtis, several other aldermen wait to be operated on; representing the gross appetites of some civic dignitaries. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1824.
  • A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
  • A futuristic vision: technology is over-sophisticated, and the masses devote themselves to intellectual pursuits, while the basic needs of society are neglected. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828, after F.A.
  • A disgruntled portly man standing next to a town water pump holding a ladle and rubbing his stomach as if in pain. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1831.
  • Two men, wrongly confined by Dr George Man Burrows in his lunatic asylum in Clapham, win a legal case against him and force him to flee. Lithograph by W. Heath, 1830.
  • Bransby Blake Cooper, acquiring gold coins by his appointment to Guy's Hospital, is attacked by a lancet, representing the journal The lancet and its editor Thomas Wakley. Coloured etching by W. Heath (Paul Pry), 182-.
  • A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
  • A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
  • Lord Lyndhurst, as a cook with a large ladle in his hand, is roasting beef on the spit as a large kettle boils. Etching by W. Heath, 1829.