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  • A selection of vices and pliers. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • The tree of intemperance, showing diseases and vices caused by alcohol. Coloured lithograph, 18--.
  • Diamondworks: a selection of mallets, vices, pincers, chisels, and gimlets. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • A timber bending machine (below), various pincers, vices, and bits [?] (above). Engraving by J. Rapkin.
  • Worthy pastimes of olden times contrasted with vices of the present day. Engraving, c. 1627, after S. Ward.
  • Worthy pastimes of olden times contrasted with vices of the present day. Engraving, c. 1627, after S. Ward.
  • Sheffield: four cutlers working at benches with hammers and vices. Coloured aquatint by R. Havell after G. Walker.
  • Six men are working with saws, drills, hammers and vices making chairs, cabinets shelves and cradles. Coloured etching.
  • A bishop ordains John Horne Tooke as a priest: the devil replaces the ordinand's virtues with vices. Engraving, 1771.
  • The dance of death: Death emerges from the ground and is greeted by a group of allegorical women, symbolising the vices. Woodcut after Alfred Rethel, 1848.