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  • Seven British garden plants, including a coral tree: flowering stems and some floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Seven plants, including an orchid and a currant: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Coleus plant (Solenostemon scutellarioides): leafy stem. Chromolithograph by L. van Houtte, c. 1877.
  • Three vignettes of phrenological heads and two phrenological propensities, amativeness and self love. Wood engraving by Dellagana after G. Cruikshank.
  • Eight plants, including three orchids, a crocus and a begonia: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Three British garden plants, including an orchid: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1838.
  • A garden dahlia (Dahlia 'Princess Royal'): one large flower. Coloured aquatint by D. Hayes, c. 1842.
  • Two flowers from different varieties of pelargonium (Pelargonium species). Coloured lithograph.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers being lifted off a hospital ship and carried away on stretchers. Halftone, c. 1900, after F. de Haenen after J. Bruton.
  • Eight plants, including two orchids, a gardenia and a clematis: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Asylum for Worthy and Decayed Freemasons, Croydon, England: perspective view and floor plan. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1852.
  • Boer War: article "Women in the war", with an illustration of Queen Victoria with families of reservists at Windsor. Text by A. Hugh Fisher, and halftone after S. Begg, 1900.
  • Russo-Japanese War: wounded men in a tent at the depot hospital at Ting-chia-chuang, China. Collotype, c. 1905.
  • A tropical orchid (Dendrobium fimbriatum var. Oculatum): flowering stem. Chromolithograph by G. Severeyns, c. 1860, after J. Vandamme.
  • A drunken brawl in a tavern with men shouting encouragement. Wood engraving by J.-B.C. Carbonneau after A. Brouwer.
  • A plantation of cochineal cacti (Nopalea cochenillifera) with workers gathering and preparing cochineal. Engraving.
  • Eight plants, including two orchids, a crocus and some tulips: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • A sculpture of a man with toothache. Wood engraving after Mr. Anderson.
  • Victoria military hospital, Netley, Southampton: perspective view. Wood engraving, 1859.
  • A young lover (Alexis) apologises to the parents of Lydia, with whom he had eloped to Gretna Green to be married without having asked their permission: he pleads that he was more likely to be pardoned for an act that had not been refused. Engraving, 1792.
  • Quillwort (Isoetes echinospora): entire plant with spores and floral segments. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1863, after himself.
  • Eight plants, including three orchids and a rose: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Sheep-dipping in progress using new equipment. Wood engraving, 1842.
  • Three pictures from a missionary enterprise on the Upper Zambesia: an African chief smoking; a missionary's wife quarters; Africans building a church. Wood-engravings.
  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Boer War: a group of nuns outside the military hospital at Mafeking, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Emerson Neilly.
  • Four figures of British medicine panniers illustrating a range of types and uses. Wood engraving by T. Mallet.
  • Boer War: a funeral on board a ship at night with officers and crew standing round the body. Watercolour with gouache by W. T. Maud, 1899.
  • King's College School, Wimbledon, London: four sketches of the interior and exterior. Wood engraving by A.W. Brown, 1899.
  • The cattle show at Portswood, near Southampton, as seen from a hill above the showground. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1844.