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  • A carriage or bathing machine drawn by a sea monster is driven below cliffs: the animal inside has its tail caught in one of the rear wheels; the coachmen and two other passengers speak. Soft-ground etching.
  • Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • John Latham. Soft-ground etching by W. Daniel, 1812, after G. Dance, 1798.
  • Krakatoa: plantain trees (Musa x paradisiaca) and coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in a forest clearing, with native man and his hut. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.
  • A horse and its foal are looking at a pack-mule. Etching by Barbarina Dacre, 1793.
  • Richard Brocklesby. Soft-ground etching by W. Daniell after G. Dance, 1795.
  • Ruins in the city of Agra, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1787.
  • James Sims. Soft-ground etching by W. Daniell, 1802, after G. Dance, 1796.
  • Krakatoa: fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) with surrounding tropical forest and native woman. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.
  • Mountain seen from the jungle, India. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1788.
  • Landscape at Firozabad, northern India. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1788.
  • The body of Vehiatua II, chief of Teahupo'o, lying in state in Tahiti two years after his death, as encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Webber, 1789.
  • A family at home, with a man sitting on a stool in front of the fire and a woman stirring the pot. Soft-ground etching by T. Vivares, 1800, after G. Morland.
  • A surgical operation on the knee of an elderly woman. Soft-ground etching and aquatint by Virginia Powell, ca. 1996.
  • John Sheldon. Soft-ground etching by W. Daniell after G. Dance, 1793.
  • Fort at Pattihata, Bihar. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1788.
  • Richard Gaff, a very old man. Etching by W. Long after himself.
  • Lime tree (Tilia sp.) in open landscape at Waterstock, Oxfordshire. Soft-ground etching by W. Delamotte, 1805.
  • Charles Hunnings Wilkinson. Soft ground etching.
  • Buddhist pagodas at Deoghar, Bihar. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1787.
  • Four different ways of dealing with water during a fowl-hunting shoot: the hunter lying on ice, the hunter hiding in a boat, the hunter on stilts and the hunter using a pole as a bridge. Soft-ground etching by H. Alken, 1824.
  • A desperately unhappy woman cradling her sick child. Etching by T.A. Steinlen, 1902.
  • George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle. Soft-ground etching by J. G. Lairs after J. Slater.
  • Richard Grindall. Soft-ground etching by W. Daniell after G. Dance.
  • Ghāzīpur, Uttar Pradesh: a ruined palace on the river Ganges. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1785.
  • John Wall. Soft-ground etching by W. Daniell after G. Dance.
  • A cow and its calf resting in a bucolic setting. Coloured soft-ground etching by Mirares.
  • Men and women misrepresenting the subjects of six popular songs. Coloured soft-ground etching after H. Alken, 1822.
  • Ghat on the Ganges at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1787.
  • John Abernethy. Soft-ground etching by W. Daniell after G. Dance.