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  • Two money-lenders counting their money and keeping their accounts, one wears spectacles. Stipple engraving by T. Cheesman, 1791, after Q. Matsys.
  • Brahman. Gouache drawing.
  • Two couples in a dance position. Ink drawing.
  • Dhakate Bajirava Saheb. Coloured lithograph, 1888.
  • Indian fortune-teller with client. Gouache drawing.
  • Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose whenever he saw her. Line engraving by J.C. Levasseur, 1769, after H. Collin de Vermont, 1727.
  • A woman posing in a photographic studio, wearing a bridal? dress and veil, in front of a plain backdrop.
  • Two Bulgarian women wearing national dress.
  • A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.
  • Two money-lenders counting their money, the one writing the ledger wears spectacles. Mezzotint after Q. Matsys.
  • Jewelry maker. Gouache drawing.
  • Bangle maker and his wife. Watercolour drawing.
  • Rebecca admires the clothes and jewellery given to her by Abraham's servant. Watercolour painting by Juliana Howard, 1824.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.
  • Head servant with his wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • A heavily jewelled Lakshmi with a halo. Chromolithograph.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • A Binsa sorcerer or shaman, Congo. Halftone.
  • A man bleeding a woman in her arm by using a bow and arrow. Etching.
  • Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Pandit Tudu and his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A woman posing in a photographic studio, wearing an embriodered dress.
  • A provocative naked young woman lying on a bed, death (a cloaked skeleton) sits at her side, a naked man walks away from the bed with his head bowed, towards a throng of diseased and dying people; representing syphilis. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • A man is piercing a girl's ear for an earring. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly, 1824.
  • Sita in captivity in Lanka being tempted by Ravana. Chromolithograph.
  • A Sikh and his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen.
  • A Niam-Niam medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after R. Buchta.
  • Indian cobbler and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Erasistratus, a physician, realising that the illness of Antiochus (son of Seleucus I) is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose when ever he saw her. Coloured engraving by W.W. Ryland, 1772, after Pietro da Cortona.