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Hand-coloured caricature of a man riding a cayman while figures pull a rope beside a river and forest.

Charles Waterton in Guyana riding on the back of a cayman. Coloured etching by R. Cruikshank, 1827, after E. Jones

Wood engraving of a large country house with trees and resting cattle on the lawn in front, captioned John Hunter's Home at E

John Hunter. Wood engraving by A. Roberts, 1870

Wood engraving of a bearded lecturer addressing an audience in an arched hall, with fossils and shells displayed on a table.

Bernard Palissy. Wood engraving by C. Maurano after E. Morin

Engraved portrait of Richard Tomlinson in a laurel wreath, with apothecary tools on the left and deer and a bear in woods on

Richard Tomlinson. Pen drawing by M. Nickson, 1810, after T. Cross, 1657

Wood engraving of a bearded man standing among seated Inuit figures around a fire inside a hut, with a boat and hanging fish.

Elisha Kent Kane. Wood engraving by [P. U. P. ?] & Pager after E. Etherington

Hand-coloured caricature of a surgeon cutting a money bag over a top hat, facing a lancet-shaped figure with a broom.

Bransby Blake Cooper, acquiring gold coins by his appointment to Guy's Hospital, is attacked by a lancet, representin…

Engraved group portrait of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with their children in an ornate classical interior room.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert surrounded by their nine children. Engraving by Best after Lake Price

William Frederick Lake Price

Hand-colored Victorian group portrait of a seated woman, a standing man, and several children in a paneled room.

Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their children. Baxterprint by W. Dickes, 185-

Black and white print of a crowded committee meeting with women in feathered hats seated at a table and men in suits standing

Members of the committee set up to establish the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital in South Africa. Process print after J. D…

Lithograph of a wounded man on a bed as a woman kneels to suck poison from his arm, with knights and attendants watching.

King Edward I of England, wounded in the arm during a Crusade, has the poison sucked from the wound by Queen Eleanor.…

Lithograph of a dissection scene with a physician and seven men in ruffs gathered around an open corpse on a table.

Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Lithograph by Desguerrois a…

Rembrandt van Rijn

Black and white lithograph of a deathbed scene with an elderly woman in a canopied bed surrounded by veiled women in mourning

The deathbed of Madame de Maintenon at the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis, at St Cyr. Lithograph after G. Mailand, 1837

Gustave Mailand

Etching of conjoined twins Helen and Judith, nude, shown in front and back views with raised arms.

Hélène and Judith, siamese twins, known as the Hungarian sisters. Etching by B. Cole

Etching of seven men in dark clothing and white collars watching a surgeon demonstrate on an open corpse lying on a table.

Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Etching by W. Unger after R…

Rembrandt van Rijn

Etched street scene of Tunbridge Wells with colonnaded shops and elegantly dressed figures walking under tall trees.

Tunbridge Wells, Kent: important figures of the town. Etching by E.F. Finden

Edward Francis Finden

Etched portrait of an elderly woman in a headcloth and dark shawl, seated beside a crosshatched bed hanging and wooden bedfra

Ann Moore, a fraudulent fasting woman. Etching by J. Ward, 1812

Etching of a physician demonstrating dissection to seven attentive men gathered around a body on a table.

Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Etching by L. Flameng after…

Rembrandt van Rijn

Etching of men shaving and eating breakfast in an interior, with a seated man drawing, after William Hogarth, 1781.

William Hogarth making a drawing of his companions and himself as they shave and take their breakfast. Etching by Ric…

William Hogarth

Lithograph of many men crowded around a dining table with glasses and decanters, some seated and others standing behind.

Contributors to Frazer's Magazine, sitting around a dining table, talking, smoking and drinking. Lithograph by D. Mac…

Etching of a bearded man seated by a window reading a sheet, with a crucifixion triptych and skull on a table.

Abraham Francen, apothecary, seated by a window, gazing at a print or drawing. Etching by or after Rembrandt

Rembrandt van Rijn

Lithograph of Karl Bryullov lying on a pillow with eyes closed, drawn from life by Cherubino Cornienti in 1852.

Karl Pavlovich Bri︠u︡llov (Bryullov) on his deathbed. Lithograph by C. Cornienti, 1852

Cherubino Cornienti

Lithograph of four robed men at a table with open books and an hourglass, translating the Bible.

Four Protestant reformers translating the Bible. Lithograph by L. Noel after P.A. Labouchère, 1847

Pierre-Antoine Labouchère

Sepia lithograph of a well-dressed couple before a barred window where a prisoner reaches out, with ragged figures around the

Salomon de Caus incarcerated in the mental asylum of Bicêtre. Lithograph by Lafosse after J.J. Lecurieux, 1845

Jacques-Joseph Lecurieux

Sepia lithograph of Queen Victoria receiving a kneeling figure in an ornate hall, with numbered key of courtiers below.

Crimean War: key to the painting of the reception of "Crimean Heroes" by Queen Victoria. Coloured lithograph after J.…

Lithograph of a bladder stone surgery on a table outdoors, with a crowd of onlookers, a monk with a cross, and a church.

Germain Colot performing an operation for bladder stone. Lithograph by A. Rivoulon, 1851

Antoine Rivoulon

Lithograph of a wounded archbishop on a stretcher carried past clergy, guards, and a crowd beside a barricade.

Archbishop Affre, wounded in the June 1848 insurrection, is carried back to his residence to die. Lithograph by V. Ad…

Engraved deathbed scene: a cardinal scatters flowers over a figure in a canopied bed, watched by a crowd in period dress.

The deathbed of Raphael Sanzio: Pope Leo X scatters flowers on his dead body. Engraving by Pauquet after P.-N. Bergeret

Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret

Etching of a seated man at a desk surrounded by demons, with laurel-crowned Dante and Virgil standing at right and angels abo

Pinelli etching Virgil and Dante, the plate being examined by monsters who are watched on the right by Virgil and Dan…

Bartolomeo Pinelli

Lithograph of three caricatured male figures in feathered hats and period dress, one holding a walking stick.

Three male dwarfs. Lithograph by F. Piloty after J. Callot

Black and white lithograph of a deathbed scene with a man in a canopied bed surrounded by mourners in uniforms and dress.

The death of Napoleon Bonaparte at St Helena in 1821. Lithograph after Baron Steuben

Charles Auguste Guillaume Henri François Louis Steuben