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  • Earls Court House, John Hunter's residence. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Two views showing the new Rachitici institute and the surrounding woodland area of San Michele, Bologna, Italy. Wood engraving after a photograph by A. Belvederi, 1896.
  • The Hospital for Consumption, Brompton Road, Fulham: viewed from the road. Wood engraving by T. G. Dutton after F. J. Francis, 1844.
  • A man fitting the strings to a harp. Wood engraving.
  • A partridge sitting in a meadow. Coloured wood engraving by J. W. Whimper.
  • Julia Pastrana, a bearded woman, embalmed. Wood engraving, 1862.
  • A lady buys some black garters to cheer up her sick husband. Wood engraving, c. 1900.
  • A woman being tortured by being strapped naked onto a horse and dragged through a town. Wood engraving after G. Durand.
  • A tiny girl, known as the Fairy Queen, fourteen inches high, with her mother. Wood engraving, 1851.
  • Manufacture of needles. Wood engraving by D. Lancelot after Piaud.
  • Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.
  • Customers drink and smoke in a spirit shop in South Africa. Wood engraving, c. 1877.
  • Carpentry: an assortment of tools. Engraving by N. L. Rousseau after Gallet.
  • Crimean War: ambulance men collecting the wounded after the Battle of Inkermann. Wood engraving.
  • A 14th century silver drinking horn with explanatory text. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • A man dressing in a bathing machine. Wood engraving by J. Leech.
  • A skeleton gentleman at a ball asks a skeleton lady to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862.
  • Slavery in the Sudan: people fastened at the neck to wooden clamps are being led away into slavery in Egypt. Wood engraving by F.J. Gauchard after K. Girardet.
  • Part of the Old Schools, Oxford. Wood engraving.
  • The oath of Henri de Guise: he and his mother look at a painting of the assassination of his father, and vow revenge. Wood engraving by H. Linton after H. Rousseau after P.-C. Comte, 1864.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with colour fabric, 1809.
  • Franco-Prussian War: a nurse treating wounded servians in an Usicza hospital. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Crimean War, England: receiving lint to be sent to Scutari. Wood engraving by LEA. W.
  • A doctor reassuring a patient that he can cure him. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1898.
  • A girl sitting on a bench crying as a boy pulls her plait: another boy reads beside her. Wood engraving by H. Linton.
  • Bahia railway station, Bahia, Brazil. Wood engraving by R.P. Leitch after B. Mulock.
  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: seen from the northern side of the Whitechapel Road. Wood engraving, after an engraving of c.1753.
  • A man in a mine, using safety apparatus invented by Auguste Denayrouze, finds asphyxiated miners. Wood engraving by J. Nash, 1874.
  • Ashanti War, Ghana, 1873: a British soldier resting beneath a mosquito net in a tropical landscape. Wood engraving, 1873.