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  • A picture-written notice to smokers and chewers requesting them to throw their stubs etc. in the stove. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1854.
  • A yellow butterfly representing part of a message that life goes on after the Trinidad Carnival; a safe-sex advertisement by the National AIDS Programme of Trinidad and Tobago. Colour lithograph by Illya Furlonge-Walker, ca. 1995.
  • A meeting of a Calves-Head Club for Whig gentlemen who celebrate the execution of King Charles I. Engraving, 1734.
  • Two witches tell Macbeth (representing the Earl of Bute) that he will be king and another, holding a noose, says he will be "Knight - the first that ever graced the Scottish annals". Etching, 1762.
  • A rebus: two rules for making sufficient money. Etchings after Benjamin Franklin.
  • An old midwife (?) washes a newborn baby; the watchful mother lies on a futon (?), covered with a kimono. Colour woodcut by Shunshō, 1846.
  • Rebuses representing Greek words. Etchings by R. de Hooghe, 169-.