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  • A young woman posing naked against a decorative dressing screen.
  • Christ's Hospital: the Great Hall during a ceremony. Engraving by J. G. Walker, 1822, after T. Stothard, 1799.
  • Two Chinese opium smokers in a booth watched by a woman who fans herself. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. Engraving by B. Cole.
  • A fashionable young lady with large plume in her hat being carried through the town in a sedan chair. Etching, c. 1796.
  • Bagnigge Wells, London: a family group, the Dumplings, on a day out. Mezzotint.
  • An Englishman sits smoking a hookah as an Asian man approaches making a salaam. Engraving by W. Humphrys, c. 1834, after W. Daniell.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from Romney Road looking towards the Isle of Dogs, with a ship at the quayside, people in the foreground. Engraving (fragment) by T. Lawranson.
  • An Abyssinian woman sits on the floor near a smoking hooka. Coloured lithograph by J. Heicke after I. Forray, 18th century.
  • A young woman posing naked in a photographic studio, kneeling on a chair holding a fan, in front of a screen. Stereo photograph, ca.1900.
  • Deaf and dumb people from the Hackney Mission to the Deaf and Dumb performing plays, sign language, and portraits of staff at the institution. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1884, after H. Morehen.
  • Two fans, one coloured green and open bearing photographs of children and couples, the other purple and closed bearing a photograph of a naked woman crouching by an open window, a fist and a used condom; an advertisement for volunteers working on the AIDS cause by Actua Mollet. Colour lithograph by Isabel Real Gayo and ICS &ICS Publicitat-Mollet, 1995.
  • Astronomy: a number of ladies and gentlemen using telescopes and celestial globes, in a landscape of ruined classical architecture. Engraving, [c.1720?].
  • Two Chinese opium smokers reclining in a booth watched by a woman with bound feet. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • Fan makers: interior view and sections of a fan. Etching by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • A fashionable young lady with large plume in her hat being carried through the town in a sedan chair. Etching, c. 1796.
  • A large Chinese man sits on a rock fanning himself as his pipe-bearer stands by. Etching by J. Caldwell, c. 1796, after W. Alexander.
  • A young loving couple sit on a sofa holding hands while she coyly holds a fan up to her face. Coloured wood engraving after Rud. Rössler.
  • A wealthy Mohammedan smoking a hooka as two attendants fan him. Engraving by J. Stephenson, 1835, after W. Daniell.