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Reclining woman in blue robe showing a large open breast tumour, painted in gouache on paper.

A woman, reclining, with a large tumour on her left breast. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837

Gouache of a reclining woman in blue robes hiding her face, with a large fleshy tumour beside her on a wooden box.

A woman (Leang Yen?) with a large tumour on her right hand, reclining and concealing her face. Gouache, 18--, after L…

Pencil and red ink drawing of a posed human skeleton with a lettered key of bones on the left and a small landscape sketch.

Skeletal structure of the 'Borghese Gladiator' statue, with pencil sketches of the head of Athene (?) and a landscape…

Jean Galbert Salvage

Colour caricature of ten jockeys on galloping horses at a race finish, with exaggerated faces and bright silks.

The finishing line at a horse race; ten portrait caricatures, including eight of famous jockeys. Colour lithograph af…

Liberio Prosperi

Etching of a capuchin monkey walking past a small engraved portrait of its own head on a stone block.

A monkey (simia apella) walking past its own portrait engraved on stone. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. M…

Nicolas Maréchal

Engraving of Apollo and allegorical figures with cherubs, a portrait roundel, a lion and a distant city view.

Allegorical figures, including Apollo: one supports a portrait roundel of Karl Theodor, Elector Palatine, with attrib…

Engraving of a reclining woman in bed shown a portrait by attendants, with a lion and a kneeling figure reading a book.

A woman lies in bed, lovesick (representing the Netherlands); attendants try to raise her spirits by showing her a po…

Mattheus Smallegange

Etching of a chemist in a laboratory confronted by armed men bursting in, with flasks and retorts on the bench.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: his arrest by the revolutionaries while performing a chemical experiment. Etching by J. Du…

Jean Duplessis-Bertaux

Three portraits shown for their phrenological exemplarity: Gall, Eustache and Chauffron. Lithograph by C. Picard, 184…

Jean-Pierre Thénot

Watercolour of a right forearm with a mottled red skin rash and a white cuff at the wrist, dated 1901.

A right arm with skin disease designated as Lichen variegatus. Watercolour by Mabel Green, 1901

Roddy Rodgers, a man without arms. Etching by J. Basire

Lithograph of bearded men gathered around a laboratory table with glass flasks while students watch from a staircase.

Henri Sainte-Claire Deville demonstrating an experiment in the inorganic chemistry laboratory at the École Normal Sup…

Léon Augustin Lhermitte

Watercolour of a leg on white cloth showing red, scaly, cracked skin disease across the popliteal area.

Popliteal area with disease. Watercolour by Mabel Green, 1900

Etched caricature of a man on crutches carrying a woman on his back, with a barking dog and a tall stooped figure at right.

Nathaniel St André and his wife Elizabeth. Etching by W. Austin, 1773

Etching of a surgeon performing a dissection on a cadaver as a crowd of men in period dress looks on closely.

The Parisian surgeon and anatomist A. Velpeau (1795-1867) performing an anatomical dissection. Etching, after F.N.A.…

Augustin Feyen-Perrin

Etching of Martin van Butchell in a long coat and top hat riding a prancing horse past trees and a wooden fence in a park.

Martin van Butchell. Etching by J. Mills after A. Mills

Etching of an elderly man's head resting on a pillow, eyes closed, labelled Broussais.

François Joseph Victor Broussais. Etching by C. Blanc after A. Gourlier

Adolphe Gourlier

Mezzotint of men gathered in a formal room around a table with documents, flags and drums on the wall behind them.

The Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, July 4, 1776. Mezzotint by H.S. Sadd after J. Trumbull

Hand-coloured stipple print of an inn interior with travelers at breakfast around a table, a fireplace, and a staircase.

An inn at Bristol: people having breakfast before taking the stage coach. Stipple print after E.V. Rippingille, 1824

Edward Villiers Rippingille

Lithograph group portrait of fourteen men in formal dress around a table with papers and books, in a curtained room.

Medical professors at the University of Vienna. Lithograph by J. Stadler, 1855, after A. Prinzhofer, 1853

Auguste Prinzhofer

Engraved view of a busy 19th-century chemistry laboratory with arched windows, glassware, and men in period dress working.

Justus von Liebig and colleagues at work in the analytical laboratory in Giessen. Lithograph (?) after W. Trautschold…

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Adolph Trautschold

Engraved group portrait with three oval medallions of named sitters, heraldic shields, drapery and classical trophies in an o

Margaret Duchess of Portland, William Duke of Portland, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, in ovals, with emblematic and…

Christian Friedrich Zincke

Lithograph of fifteen men in formal dress, seated and standing around a draped table with books and papers.

Fifteen medical professors at the University of Vienna. Lithograph by or after A. Prinzhofer, 1853

Auguste Prinzhofer

Caricature of a dinner party with anthropomorphic prehistoric reptiles and a seated man at the head of the table.

Sir Richard Owen. Lithograph by A. Orton after E. C. Rye

Edward Caldwell Rye

Hand-coloured 1825 satirical print of a man gesturing at a seated woman while two women watch in a parlour.

John Abernethy. Coloured etching by S. W. Fores, 1825

Samuel William Fores

Etching of a man's bust in an oval medallion above cherubs, a bull, a lion and a lamb resting on clouds.

Sir Isaac Newton. Etching by L. Cars after F. Boucher

François Boucher

Wood engraving of three men in robes with swords, two seated on chairs and one standing, in a panelled room.

Three men (Chinese or Korean?), two are sitting on chairs and the other is standing, all of them have swords by their…

Marie Gabriel Joseph Pibaraud

Stipple engraving of men seated at a candlelit dining table in an 18th-century interior, with paintings and a bust on the wal

A gathering at Joshua Reynolds's house: Oliver Goldsmith and Edmund Burke among the company. Stipple engraving by W.…

James William Edmund Doyle

Mezzotint of an older man reading a manuscript at a table while a landlady and two men stand by an open door.

Dr Samuel Johnson reading the manuscript of Oliver Goldsmith's 'The vicar of Wakefield', while a bailiff waits with t…

Edward Matthew Ward

Lithograph with a central portrait of Marshal Duroc, flanked by battle scenes at Lutzen and a deathbed scene, with a Bautzen

Marshal Duroc, with scenes of his campaigns and his death bed. Lithograph by de Lemercier after V. Adam and N. Maurin

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

Sanctorius Sanctorius. Line engraving by C. Rizzi, 1765, after P. Novelli

Pietro Antonio Novelli

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a wig, framed by laurels, columns, a rooster and a serpent with cup, captioned Giuseppe At

Giuseppe Atti. Engraving by F. Rosaspina

Francesco Rosaspina

Line engraving of Thomas Sydenham in an oval frame, surrounded by books, a snake, an urn and foliage.

Thomas Sydenham. Line engraving by H. F. Rose, 1822, after himself

Engraving of an allegorical pharmacy interior with a portrait medallion, bookshelves, barrels, a serpent, and robed figures.

Christoph Horch. Line engraving by J.E. Gericke

Johann Ernst Gericke

Jean Boudin. Line engraving by D. Berger

William Cheselden. Line engraving by A. R. Freebairn

Alfred Robert Freebairn

Line engraving of a man with curly hair and a high collar, bust portrait signed by W. H. Worthington.

Andrew Duncan. Line engraving by W. H. Worthington

William Henry Worthington

Armand Trousseau on his deathbed. Red chalk drawing by G. Dieulafoy, 1867

Paul Georges Dieulafoy

Coloured engraving of surgeon Ambroise Paré tending a bandaged wounded man in a wooden hut with assistants and instruments.

Ambroise Paré. Coloured line engraving by C. Manigaud after E. J. C. Hamman

Sheet of twenty-five oval engravings of moral scenes with a central Benjamin Franklin portrait medallion in a laurel wreath.

Twenty-five moral tales. Line engraving after [R.] Dighton after B. Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Engraving of a wounded man on the floor of a room with a table, as onlookers react and smoke rises from the right.

Marie-François Vergèz. Line engraving by F.L. Couché, 1807

François Louis Couchè

Engraved key sheet with numbered portrait heads of eighteenth-century men and a printed legend of names below.

Key plate to the print of the death of Lord Chatham, in the Upper Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, 1778. Engravi…

John Singleton Copley

Engraved scene of Copernicus gesturing at a celestial diagram, surrounded by astronomers and telescopes in a Gothic hall.

Nicolas Copernicus among other astronomers of the world. Process print after a wood engraving by J. Styfi and J. Hole…

Michał Elwiro Andriolli

Colour caricature of twelve French surgeons shown as specimens standing in glass jars, with surgical instruments below.

Twelve French surgeons portrayed as pathological specimens in glass jars. Colour lithograph by A. Barrère, ca. 1910

Adrien Barrère