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  • Neptune presiding over a businessman making money through investment and a man drinking beer; representing the phlegmatic temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler.
  • A rich miser eating humble food. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli, c. 1800.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • Christ among sick people and the Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching by T. Worlidge, 1758, after Rembrandt, 1649.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal, 1822.
  • Two alchemists seeming to produce gold from a furnace; the accompanying text satirises those who pursue alchemy for gold alone. Engraving by C. Weigel, 1698.
  • A woman beleaguered by four enemies; representing Faith resisting Death, Schism, the World and the Devil. Engraving by Hieronymus Wierix after Maarten de Vos, 156-.
  • A life in 24 silhouettes of Jan Kwak, a successful quack-doctor. Process print after N. Bodenheim, c. 1900.
  • Kings examine the skeleton of King Croesus; allegory of vanity in the face of death. Etching by A. Allard.
  • A vain man making extravagant charitable bequests. Engraving by N. Guérard, 1715/1719.
  • A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others' deaths. Coloured engraving.
  • A quack claims he can cure a man in the three minutes before his train leaves. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Judith Levy, a rich Jewess. Etching.
  • A wife tells her husband to add her charitable givings to his records of their outgoings. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • The rich visiting the poor and needy bringing alms, with a quote from the Bible. Line engraving by B. Baron, 1728, after a painting attributed to Frans Francken I.
  • A rich miser eating humble food. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli, c. 1800.
  • A liveried footman sends on their way a starving family who are sitting outside the side-door of a mansion. Wood engraving by J. Thompson after Fred Tayler.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal, 1822.
  • The torments of Job under a swirling sky dominated by God. Engraving by M. van Heemskerck, 1563.
  • Judith Levy, a rich Jewess. Etching, 1803.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A wealthy hypochondriac having two physicians take his pulse at the same time. Line engraving by H. Bourne after A. Solomon.
  • Christ among sick people and the Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching by T. Worlidge, 1758, after Rembrandt, 1649.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • A wealthy and well-dressed doctor; suggesting he has a large number of patients. Wood engraving by J. Orrin Smith after J.K. Meadows, 1840.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A wealthy woman visiting the sick. Wood engraving after C. Baugniet.
  • A woman beleaguered by four enemies; representing Faith resisting Death, Schism, the World and the Devil. Engraving by Hieronymus Wierix after Maarten de Vos, 156-.
  • The three Magi offer gifts to the infant Christ, who sits on the Virgin's lap. Tinted lithograph by I. Bergman, 1822, after J.C. Schwarz.