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  • A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A man holds his head in despair as the croupier claims all his chips in the gambling game. Wood engraving.
  • A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
  • While Lady Buckingham is gambling with her cronies, her husband enters to report the theft of the bank. Etching by James Gillray, 1797.
  • The crucifixion of Christ ('The Great Crucifixion'). Engraving by Agostino Carracci, 1589, after G. Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • A fashionable lecturer demonstrates the art of physiognomy through reference to busts. Etching, 1765.
  • Two episodes about Mr. Muff losing money gambling at the races. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • The Chevalier D'Eon meets bankers in a London office or coffee-house to discuss wagers placed on whether D'Eon was a man or a woman. Engraving, 1771.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • A crowd watches as two men gamble; representing the phrenological faculty of acquisitiveness. Steel engraving by L.A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Salome shows the head of John the Baptist to her parents at the feast. Engraving, 1652, after P.P. Rubens.
  • Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • A dice bearing the words 'Don't gamble with AIDS' amidst a backdrop bearing the words 'Think!'. Colour lithograph.