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  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Doctor Slop, having fallen off his horse, is greeted by Obadiah. Etching after L. Sterne.
  • King Ahaziah lies sick after having fallen through an upper window: Elijah foretells his death. Drawing by H.P. Bone.
  • A woman falling headfirst through an open cellar-door outside a pharmacy, and a man expressing his concern. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank after G.M. Woodward, 1798.
  • Ascending and descending: (above) people in a balloon; (below) people seated in a rotunda around a pool and in danger of falling into the water. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1842.
  • A house painter on a platform with a waist-high crossbeam to prevent an accidental fall. Colour lithograph by A. Th. Schwarz, ca. 1957.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Doctor Slop, having fallen off his horse, is greeted by Obadiah. Etching after L. Sterne.
  • People are skating on a frozen village pond, two are being pushed in sledges, and one person has fallen over on the ice. Etching after A. Van der Neer.
  • A woman descending the stairs of a steep staircase in the gloom falls into the arms of a man who is ascending. Coloured lithograph, 1844.