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  • Henry Brougham is praised by black ex-slaves for his part in their liberation, but criticized by children factory employees, on whom he turns his back. Lithograph by H.H. (Henry Heath).
  • A child serving behind the counter of a chemists and offering advice to a female customer. Wood engraving.
  • Two chimney sweeps, one of them is feeling ill and taking medicine. Coloured lithograph.
  • An aggressive woman bullying a child who is too ill to work. Pen drawing.
  • China during the Cultural Revolution: children and young people setting off to plant trees and dig reservoirs for the Chinese people. Colour lithograph, ca. 1970.
  • A young woman carrying a bundle of ferns on her back. Engraving by Edward Burton after Robert Herdman.