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  • Doctors and pharmacists surround a mother with child, proffering medicines; symbolising the difference of ideas concerning change of the Dutch electoral law. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.
  • Drs. Hermanus Schaepman and Abraham Kuyper, shown as witches, stoke the fire of a cauldron from which emanate devils; symbolising their struggle to institute suffrage, against prevailing resistance in the Dutch second chamber. Reproduction of a lithograph after Van Geldorp, 1901.
  • Three men seeking lodgings standing on the doorstep of a house where the charwoman (Benjamin Disraeli) addresses them from the window; representing the enfranchisement of lodgers. Process print, 1878, after J. Tenniel, 1867.
  • Professors C.B. Spruyt and Van Pesch are told by Death that all knowledge comes from him; referring to the change in electoral law concerning the minimum voting age. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.