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  • Sospensione di commercio con tutta la Germania : essendo pervenuto all'Illustrissimo Magistrato della Sanità di questa città il bando, publicato da SS. Proveditori alla Sanità di Verona, della Germania da suoi confini in sù ... / Signori Presidenti del Magistrato ... Francesco Raimondi [and others].
  • A crowd scramble to catch a goose which is running among them; representing the quest for money. Engraving attributed to S. Bernard.
  • The Commercial Travellers' School, Pinner, Harrow, England. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin after B. Sly.
  • A harbour in which bales of goods are being traded between two merchants: falsehood and fraud govern the transaction, aided by an untrained clerk; representing the fraudulent use of commercial law. Engraving by H. Goltzius.
  • A merchant haggles with another merchant over a large bundle of goods. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Panorama of the river Thames and the buildings of the City, looking northwards beside London Bridge. Engraving by S. and N. Buck, 1749.
  • Thomas Wakley shown as Orpheus with his lyre, opposing the Literary Copyright Act of 1842 on the grounds that he could write poetry according to a recipe; and British tradesmen offering shoddy coats for sale. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • A Moodaly and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • King Arcesilaus of Cyrenaica overseeing the packaging of silphium (the country's main source of income) into ships for export. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937,after a Spartan cylix, c. 580-550 B.C.
  • London: the river Thames and the buildings of the City, looking northwards beside London Bridge. Coloured engraving, 1730, after J. Kip.
  • Psychiatric hospital (Het dol huys), Amsterdam, Netherlands. Etching, 17th century.