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  • Anton Dolin as Satan. Photographic postcard, 193-.
  • Vignettes of Peel's first ministry. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as a devil when he asks for his fee. Coloured engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • The devil's own : scenes from the farce of life, or facts are stubborn thing, exposing a few only of the secret doings of those cursed human vultures called lawyers.
  • The soul being refined like metal in a crucible by an angel, Satan, Venus and Death; representing a test of faith. Etching by C. Murer, ca. 1600-1614.
  • A man pulling a condom over his body to protect himself from an approaching man wearing a grass skirt and devil's horns representing a personification of the AIDS disease; he holds a spear that breaks on impact with the condom; an advertisement for the AIDS Awareness Programme by the Pache Trust in Madurai, India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A patient being bled by a surgeon with three dismayed onlookers; represented by five faun-like demons. Coloured etching.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Witchcraft: a bewitched woman vomiting. Woodcut, 1720.
  • A woman expressing thanks to the Madonna del Parto for cure of insanity in the form of expelled devils. Oil painting.
  • The damned writhe in boiling cauldrons; representing hell. Woodcut.
  • The "Ministry of all the Talents", personified by Charles James Fox, promising to convey John Bull towards the promised land, but really to hell. Coloured etching by James Gillray, 1806.
  • The Christ Child triumphing over the devil. Engraving by G. Edelinck after D. Hallé.
  • Three noblemen dance round a tall thistle as the devil plays the bagpipes; representing Scottish influence on the British policy towards American independence. Engraving, 1775.
  • The birth of the Antichrist from a dying woman via a Caesarean operation. Reproduction, 1933, of a woodcut, 1475.
  • The levels of hell depicted as circular stone tiers; purgatory lies outside its walls. Engraving.
  • A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.
  • An autopsy on an investor in the Dutch speculation boom of 1720 reveals that he had died of an excess of air, representing lack of value in the shares. Etching, 1720.
  • Saint Jerome. Engraving by G. Audran after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
  • An artist painting a woman with a hand mirror and the devil; representing the faculty of the imagination. Engraving, 16--.
  • A decrepit man screaming in pain from gout, rheumatism and catarrh; represented as three tormenting devils. Coloured etching by J. Cawse, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Witchcraft: a man on horseback visits a woman, while inside a house another woman points to a broken wheel. Woodcut, 1720.
  • A man with toothache sits in his nightgown, with a handkerchief around his face, in a surgery [?], and is discovered by "Botsam" in fright to be turning into a devil. Wood engraving by F. Wentworth after H.K. Browne.
  • A staunch magistrate surprised by the apparition of a radical demon. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
  • A monk and a statue of Saint Patrick trying to prevent the devil from snatching the corpse of a witch from its grave. Watercolour by E. Bell, 1804.
  • Johann Caspar Spurzheim giving a phrenological demonstration before Franz Joseph Gall and another seven people; a grinning devil looks on. Watercolour painting.
  • The Virgin Mary and Christ child with Eloi (Eligius), bishop of Oise (and patron saint of Bologna). Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Cavedone, 1614.
  • Mrs Fitzherbert and George Prince of Wales represented as Adam and Eve standing under the Tree of Knowledge surrounded by the trappings of fashionable pastimes and vices, causing the devil to flee. Etching, 1786.
  • A man holds a scythe as winged creatures fly above him, three figures approach on a horse, and another figure approaches from the left with a scroll. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.
  • Saint Michael the Archangel: the fall of the dragon and the rebel angels defeated by St Michael. Engraving by N.P. Loir after C. Lebrun.