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Wellcome Collection

10 works

Brown frieze of four dancing half-human, half-animal figures with tails under a decorative border.

A frieze depicting dancing half-human, half-animal figures. Process print, 1921

Japanese woodblock triptych of elegant figures under a parasol by a river, with peasants planting rice fields in the distance

Prince Genji in modern dress with lady attendants visiting Ashikaya (north Kantō Plain) in the fifth lunar month; pea…

Utagawa Kunisada

Line engraving of a stone bridge over a river with trees, and Gothic buildings of Eton College in the distance.

The river and bridge in the grounds of Eton College, Berkshire. Line engraving by C. Pye

Three-panel Japanese woodcut of women and a child on an Edo bridge, with a rickshaw, boats, and a stone arch bridge behind.

People standing on a bridge in Edo as a rickshaw passes by. Colour woodcut by Kiyochika, 1876

Kobayashi Kiyochika

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

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 a statue of Sir Isaac Newton in a draped robe, standing on a plinth beside a stack of books.

Sir Isaac Newton. Wood engraving by [P. H.] after W. Theed, 1858

William Cheselden. Line engraving by A. R. Freebairn

Alfred Robert Freebairn

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

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