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  • Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Etching by W. Unger after Titian.
  • Zaleucus having one of his eyes removed for one of his son's eyes, with six lines of verse by A. Montanus below. Line engraving by H. Quellinus after A. Quellinus.
  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
  • Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Engraving by W. Bromley after P.P. Rubens.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A man walks arm in arm with a woman while looking back at a prostitute in a check coat; representing the need for prostitutes to use condoms to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph after Ullstein Bilderdienst for Hydra, 199-.
  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
  • A physician trying to take advantage of a young woman patient by visiting her at home while her husband is out. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
  • A man leans on the shoulder of his partner while looking back at another woman with the message: "Absence of trust is the end of safety. AIDS is not like getting a cold ... Do not give AIDS a chance". Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Engraving by R. Pranker, 176-, after J. (?) Houbraken.
  • Joseph flees from Potiphar's wife as she attempts to seduce him. Lithograph by Franz Hanfstaengl after Carlo Cignani.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • Joseph being seduced by Potiphar's wife. Engraving by J. Frey after C. Cignani.
  • Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Engraving by P. Anderloni after Titian.
  • A physician called out of bed by a hoax night call. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 18--.
  • A married woman having an affair, talking on the telephone to her lover; representing the risk of contracting AIDS through infidelity. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • Potiphar's wife tumbles on her bed with a terrified Joseph. Stipple engraving by W. Nutter after R. Cosway, 1802.
  • Three scenes: a woman undergoing a trial for adultery, a Jewish burial and circumcision ceremony. Etching after a woodcut, 1682.
  • A wife sending her husband away on holiday in order to pursue an affair with a "nerve specialist" who has got the husband out of the way by recommending a change of scene for him. Colour process print, c. 1920.
  • Three scenes: a woman undergoing a trial for adultery, a Jewish burial and circumcision ceremony. Etching after a woodcut, 1682.
  • A man walks arm in arm with a woman while looking back at a prostitute in a check coat; representing the need for prostitutes to use condoms to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph after Ullstein Bilderdienst for Hydra, 199-.
  • A black woman with her arms around a black man; a representation of cheating partners in an advertisement about the risk of AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1994.
  • The Tarakeshwar murder: Elokeshi offers a betel-leaf to the seated Mahant. Watercolour drawing.
  • A furious cuckold rushes at his rival with a sword; representing vice as its own punishment. Engraving after O. van Veen (Vaenius), 1612.
  • Three scenes: a woman undergoing a trial for adultery, a Jewish burial and circumcision ceremony. Etching after a woodcut, 1682.
  • Joseph being seduced by Potiphar's wife. Engraving by J. Frey after C. Cignani.
  • An old man sits with his arm round a girl and plies her with drink as his wife watches through a window. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1747, after D. Teniers.
  • A closed red tulip pointing towards an opening lily representing 'Love Question No 159', a warning that you can think what you like about infidelity, but you must think about the consequences of cheating without a condom?; one of a series of safe sex AIDS prevention advertisements by Folkhälsoinstitutet, RFSU and RFSL. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.
  • A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.
  • A drunken husband lies sleeping as his young wife plots furtively with her lover, a foreign soldier. Engraving by A. Capellan after G. B. Piazzetta.