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A cholera patient experimenting with remedies. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, [1832?].

Robert Cruikshank

Two etchings of urns by G.B. Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Sheet showing two etchings by G. B. Piranesi.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

A gouty invalid conversing with a a young man. Coloured etching.

Phrenology exemplified and illustrated, with upwards of forty etchings

Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865.

Date: 1837

Etchings of a marble urn and two bronze lamps

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Rebuses representing Greek words. Etchings by R. de Hooghe,

Romeyn de Hooghe

Two etchings by G.B. Piranesi (a marble vase and stand)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Charles Adolphe Wurtz. Etching by J. Egez.

Paul Ferdinand Gachet. Etching by V. van Gogh, 1890.

Vincent van Gogh

William Rutherford. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.

William Leybourn. Etching by R. Gaywood, 1657.

Johann Caspar Lavater. Etching by Schleuen after B. Rode.

William Spottiswoode. Etching by P. Rajon after G. F. Watts.

Paul Adolphe Rajon

A patient being bled by a surgeon with three dismayed onlookers; represented by five faun-like demons. Coloured etching.

Ernst Soner. Etching.

Sir Arthur Keith. Etching by A. W. Turnbull.

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran. Etching by E. Boilvin, 1894.

Samuel Tuke. Etching by C. Callet.

Henry Tuke. Etching by C. Callet.

John Hope. Coloured etching by J. Kay, 1786.

Henry Greenhill. Etching by J. Greenhill, 1667, after himself.

Sir James Paget. Etching by A. W. Turnbull.

James Hutton. Etching by J. Kay, 1787.

Richard Haydock. Etching by [J. Th.], 1772.

Sir Francis Seymour Haden. Etching by W. Strang, 1883.

Joseph Leidy. Etching by L. E. Faber.

Thomas Richard Fraser. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.

Paul Ferdinand Gachet. Etching by B. Derousse after N. Goeneutte, 1891.

Daniel Hack Tuke. Etching by C. Callet.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux after himself.

Johann Caspar Spurzheim. Etching by J. W.

Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck. Etching by P. F. Gachet, 1924 [?].

Charles Robert Darwin. Etching by P. A. Rajon, 1875, after W. W. Ouless, 1875.

Walter William Ouless

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister [1827 – 1912] surgeon

Wilfred C. Applebey

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister [1827 – 1912] surgeon

William Smith Greenfield. Etching by W. Hole, 1884.

Thomas Henry Huxley. Etching by L. Flameng after the Hon. J. Collier.

Léopold Flameng

A prostitute with her name and charges. Etchings by Wenzel Hollar.

A rebus: two rules for making sufficient money. Etchings after Benjamin Franklin.

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Date: [between 1820 and 1829?]

Facsimiles of historical and literary curiosities, accompanied by etchings of interesting localities

Smith, Charles J.

Date: [1837?]

A man standing by a fire place, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1800.

A figure dressed in a cholera safety suit. Coloured etching. English, after a German or French original of 1832.

An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.

Thomas Rowlandson

A female dwarf, holding a flower, in a country setting. Etching.

Episodes in Dante's Divine comedy. Etchings by B. Pinelli, 1824-1826. Front cover.

Dante Alighieri

Tunbridge Wells, and its neighbourhood : illustrated by a series of etchings, and historical descriptions

Amsinck, Paul, -1814.

Date: 1810

A series of original portraits and caricature etchings : with biographical sketches and illustrative anecdotes

Kay, John, 1742-1826.

Date: 1838

A series of original portraits and caricature etchings, with biographical sketches and illustrative anecdotes

Kay, John, 1742-1826.

Date: 1837-1838

John Wall. Soft-ground etching by W. Daniell after G. Dance.

William Daniell

A grimacing invalid seated before a bowl having received an emetic, another man clasps his head compassionately. Coloured etching by J. Sneyd, 1804, after J. Gillray.

A poor apothecary in a cart being drawn by his servant are overtaken by a wealthy couple in a horse-drawn carriage with a seat at the back for their servant. Coloured etching.

An ill man who is being bled by his doctor. Coloured etching by J. Sneyd, 1804, after J. Gillray.

Portrait of William Harvey [1578 - 1657], surgeon

Wencelaus Hollar

A grimacing invalid seated before a bowl having received an emetic, another man clasps his head compassionately. Coloured etching after J. Sneyd after J. Gillray.

Two sleeping water creatures, similar to mermaids. Etching by J.H. Mortimer, 1780.

John Hamilton Mortimer

Patrick Russell. Soft-ground etching by W. Daniell, 1811, after G. Dance, 1794.

A doctor prescribing continuation of treatment to his reluctant patient. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1799, after G.M. Woodward.

George Moutard Woodward

A broker feigning deafness to avoid paying the doctor who cured him. Coloured etching, 1786.

A Dutch quack doctor promoting his wares before an audience of townspeople. Etching.

Ralph Allen making a speech to the Corporation of Bath.

William Hibbart

Quack doctor open for business. Coloured etching by G.M. Woodward, 1802.

George Moutard Woodward

A male dwarf said to be Persian and to possess unusual talents. Etching.

An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.

Court hearing of a dispute in which a doctor refuses to pay his tailor for some highly unsatisfactory breeches. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802, after G.M. Woodward.

George Moutard Woodward

Court hearing of a dispute in which a doctor refuses to pay his tailor for some highly unsatisfactory breeches. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802, after G.M. Woodward.

Separate pictures of garden fruit, flowers, vegetables, birds, dogs and two monkeys dressed as gardeners. Coloured etchings, 18th century.

A species of the genus Lysimachia: flowering stem with separate root and floral sections. Coloured etchings by M. Bouchard, 1774.

W. C. Roentgen, professor of physics at Giessen, Wuerzburg and Munich, discoverer of X-rays. Reproduction of etching by J. Lindner-Mohn, 1900.

Johann Lindner Mohn

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is in such pain that he pulls the tooth-drawer's wig off. Coloured etching after J. Gillray (?).

John Abernethy. Coloured etching.

William Allen, portrayed as an alchemist with several furnaces, the one which he stokes is labelled "Matter o'money". Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1827.

Thomas Howell Jones

A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.

A woman holding her stomach and vomiting into a bucket after self administering an emetic. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1800.

Isaac Cruikshank

John Abernethy. Coloured etching by Cruikshank, 1828.

George Cruikshank

Several sinister events in a London street. Coloured etching.

Three illustrations of Roman military punishment: banishment, degrading punishment, and freemen degraded and sold into slavery. Etchings by A.M.I. after W. Hogarth.

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.

Six vignettes of self-help hydrotherapy. Etching by G. Cruikshank.

George Cruikshank

Sixteen feet in profile, of women and men. Coloured etching.

A fashionably dressed apothecary's wife. Coloured etching by M. Darly, 1774.

A man with gout seated at a table drinking with a parson and a woman. Coloured etching.

An obese gouty man drinking punch with two companions. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

Thomas Graham Balfour. Etching by W. Strang after himself.

Five doctors discussing their patient, Napoléon: one of the physicians is examining his rear end. Coloured etching, 1809.

Claude Ambroise Seurat, a very thin man. Colour etching.

Six vignettes of self-help hydrotherapy. Etching by G. Cruikshank.

George Cruikshank

An aged unpleasant apothecary. Coloured etching by M. Darly, 1774.

Margaret Patten, a centenarian. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1820, after J. Smith.

A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Sneyd, 1804, after J. Gillray.

A doctor examining an obese man and his wife and servant for suspected food poisoning from toadstools. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.

Thomas Rowlandson

Dr. John Burges, on tiptoe outside a building in Warwick Lane. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1795.

Hordes of the infirm with crutches and wheelchairs making their way down the hill to Bath from the Royal Crescent; suggesting that all the visitors are decrepit. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson.

Thomas Rowlandson

Twelve stages in the sequence from the head of a frog to the head of a primitive man. Coloured etchings by Christian von Mechel after Lavater, 1797.

Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.

Date: [1797]

Twelve stages in the sequence from the head of a primitive man to the head of the Apollo Belvedere. Coloured etchings by Christian von Mechel after Lavater, 1797.

Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.

Date: 1797

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