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  • Mary Toft (Tofts), who duped several doctors into believing she had given birth to a litter of rabbits: twelve episodes. Etching.
  • A performance by the "three-headed nightingale" (supposedly a woman with three heads). Reproduction of a wood engraving by E.A. Tilly.
  • A London linen-draper's assistant reveals his true identity: he is not "Horatio Sparkins", an aristocratic man about town, but Mr Smith, an assistant in a down-market shop. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • The Roman emperor Valens pours money into a coffer; an officer is arrested and led to prison. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • Mary Tofts, a woman who pretended that she had given birth to rabbits. Stipple engraving by Maddocks.
  • A French tooth-drawer wearing a turban and pretending to be Turkish in order to attract clients, holding a large tooth and an enormous tooth extractor. Engraving by N. Dupuis after F. Eisen.
  • Ann Moore, a fraudulent fasting woman, aged 58. Engraving, 1813.
  • 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.
  • Mary Toft (Tofts) appearing to give birth to rabbits in the presence of several surgeons and man-midwives sent from London to examine her. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.
  • Two executors overcharge a heir, taking advantage of their distress. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • Mary Tofts, a woman who pretended that she had given birth to rabbits. Coloured stipple engraving by Maddocks, ca. 1819.
  • Ann Moore, a fraudulent fasting woman. Etching by J. Ward, 1812.
  • Mary Tofts, a woman who pretended that she had given birth to rabbits. Coloured stipple engraving by Maddocks, ca. 1819.
  • A French tooth-drawer wearing a turban and pretending to be Turkish in order to attract clients, holding a large tooth and an enormous tooth extractor. Engraving by N. Dupuis after F. Eisen.
  • Toby, a beggar who pretended to be blind and lame. Engraving by R. Cooper, 1822.
  • A performance by the "three-headed nightingale" (supposedly a woman with three heads), seen from the side, revealing the trick whereby the appearance of three-headedness was achieved. Reproduction of wood engraving by E.A. Tilly.
  • Ann Moore, a fraudulent fasting woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1822.
  • A woman being exhibited, supposedly with no lower half of her body. Wood engraving.
  • Mary Toft (Tofts), who duped several doctors into believing she had given birth to a litter of rabbits: twelve episodes. Etching.
  • Toby, a man who pretended to be blind and lame. Etching by A. van Assen, 1804, after J. Parry.
  • Hannah Trapnel, a Quaker and a pretended prophet. Line engraving after R. Gaywood, 1823.
  • Mary Toft (Tofts) appearing to give birth to rabbits in the presence of several surgeons and man-midwives sent from London to examine her. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.
  • The Earl of Bute as a Colossus wearing a tartan scarf about his shoulders stands on two stone pedestals before the tower to St James's Palace as William Pitt the Elder, leaning on a crutch, pleads with him from below. Engraving, 1767.