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  • Leander swimming the Hellespont towards Hero's light, with Eros guiding him. Engraving.
  • World War One: a large snake, symbolic of a gas attack, strikes at a sleeping soldier. Colour halftone after a crayon drawing by L. Raemaekers.
  • A witch in the moonlight, opening her hand to a mandrake plant dressed in a white veil. Drawing by or after H. Fuseli.
  • Ceres, at night, drinking from a flask provided by an old woman, while her young son mocks. Etching by W. Hollar, 1646, after A. Elsheimer.
  • A traveller is attacked by brigands at night in a wild terrain. Mezzotint by W. Giller after D.T. Egerton, 1828.
  • A boy seated at a street corner at night selling boxes of matches from a tray on his lap. Wood engraving by R. Bong, 1890.
  • 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.
  • Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.
  • Ceres, at night, drinking from a flask provided by an old woman, while her young son mocks. Etching by W. Hollar, 1646, after A. Elsheimer.
  • A pilgrim discovers a monk at night who kneels in prayer before the Cross. Etching by C. Heath after R. Westall.
  • The good Samaritan. Engraving after S. à Bolswert after P.P. Rubens, 16--.
  • A woman selling oysters at night. Wood engraving by H. Linton after H. Morland.
  • Two people watching over the cradle of a sleeping baby at night. Aquatint after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1644.
  • Night. Engraving by G.H. Frezza, 1704, after P. de Petris, after F. Albani.
  • A witch in the moonlight, opening her hand to a mandrake plant dressed in a white veil. Drawing by or after H. Fuseli.
  • A woman personifying night carries two babies over the land, representing sleep and death. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1764, after Annibale Carracci.
  • Two people watching over the cradle of a sleeping baby at night. Aquatint after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1644.
  • Drunkenness
  • Men dancing in front of Captain Cook and members of his crew, on the island of Lifuka (Tonga). Engraving by W. Sharp, 1784, after J. Webber, ca. 1782.
  • The sun shining amid white clouds by day, advertising Veramon analgesic medicine, and the moon shining amid black clouds by night, advertising Medinal hypnotic medicine. Process print after Leonhard Fries for Schering Ltd.
  • The balloon "Royal Victoria" being launched at night by Charles Green at Vauxhall Gardens, London, watched by crowds of people. Wood engraving by Dalziel Brothers, 1878.
  • A woman seated on a flat boat on a marsh in the moonlight. Etching.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • Men dancing in front of Captain Cook and members of his crew, on the island of Lifuka (Tonga). Engraving by W. Sharp, 1784, after J. Webber, ca. 1782.
  • An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • Basilica of Saint Peter, Vatican: the church and the colonnade, lit by lamps at night. Coloured etching.
  • Five men standing inside the ruins of a Gothic church, at night. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1800.