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  • Women swimming in the sea at Brighton. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
  • Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, eating and drinking to excess. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger, as a washerwoman scrubbing clothes in a tub filled with hot soapy water. Etching by William Heath, 1829.
  • A smartly dressed woman examining the head of a military man. Coloured etching attributed to W. Heath, ca 1830.
  • 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.
  • King George IV as a lady's maid wearing an apron over her dress. Etching by William Heath, 1829.
  • Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, eating and drinking to excess. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
  • 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.
  • Lady Conyngham sitting on a stool with her hand on a crown. Etching by William Heath.
  • 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.
  • Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, eating and drinking to excess. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • A large John Bull being held down and force-fed by Peel and Wellington; representing the idea of the Catholic emancipation as a breach of the constitution. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • The Duke of Wellington as an old woman wearing a bonnet and carrying a candle stick and snuffer. Etching by William Heath, 1829.
  • Joseph Grimaldi dressed as a Red Indian points to a pantomime creature in a scene from the pantomime, Red Dwarf. Etching by W. Heath, ca. 1811.
  • Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching after W. Heath, 1829.