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  • Sir James Graham. Wood engraving by E. Evans, 1845.
  • Screwpine plants (Pandanus species) of Madagascar, sheltering a tent. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1814.
  • Two men are carrying a palanquin between them along a road, others walk behind with yokes across their shoulders. Wood engraving.
  • Hercules: six episodes in his life. Wood engraving by Bisson and Cottard after A. Rivaud.
  • Horseback, sledge, sleigh and a hammock used as modes of transport in Madeira. Wood engraving, 1879.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..
  • Textiles: three patent diagrams of apparatus for treating fabric. Wood engraving by Walmsley, 1856.
  • Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: left, Pensioners in one of the wards, right, inside one of the "cabbins". Wood engravings by M. Jackson, 1865.
  • Jules Grévy takes the pulse of Marshal Macmahon, who lies sick in bed with a priest and another man; they are choking from the fumes of their burning bed; Léon Gambetta emerges from behind the scenes carrying a clyster. Coloured wood engraving, 1879.
  • Crimean War: cityscape view showing the barracks and hospital at Scutari, Turkey. Wood engraving.
  • Instrumenta chyrurgiae et icones anathomicae / [Ambroise Paré].
  • Methods of torture in South America: people in field stocks before large crucifixes. Wood engraving by Riou.
  • Crescent Chapel Schools, Liverpool, Merseyside. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing after J.A. Picton.
  • Geography: visitors at Niagara Falls. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • The shooting of a Christian incendiary in Alexandria during the war in Egypt. Wood engraving.
  • A family at the door of their thatched cottage with the child in the father's arms and the mother in the doorway. Wood engraving.
  • Three episodes about the fate of Mr. Rapp's party guests, after an evening of overindulgence. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • Sir William Scovell Savory. Wood engraving by R. Taylor.
  • Gloucester Infirmary, England: with floor plan and printed text. Wood engraving.
  • Lake Ngami: Africans and European explorers on its bank. Wood engraving by J.W. Whymper after A. Rider.
  • A bemused husband querying a doctor as to how his wife of only six months can have already given birth to a child. Wood engraving, 1838.
  • Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Wood engraving after T.D. Scott, 1871, after Wilson & Beadell.
  • Crimean War, England: Crimean Inquiry of the Earl of Lucan. Wood engraving.
  • A soldier returns and goes first to embrace his child, his wife in the background waves to remind him of her presence also. Wood engraving by Benedict after Berthold Woltze.
  • Four firemen stand in front of their fire-engine. Wood engraving.
  • Geography: whirlpools. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • People bathing at Benares. Wood engraving.
  • Hand painted wood engraving
  • Architecture: decorative iron door at Rouen Cathedral. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing after J. C. Hall.