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  • A goddess sits among a crowd of mythological figures with musical instruments and weapons; representing mineralogy. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1817.
  • A surgeon on the battlefield. Process print after C. Maurer, 1594.
  • The death of Sir Phillip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving by W. Greatbach after Sir D. Wilkie.
  • Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb; weapons hang from above. Process print after Rembrandt.
  • A pair of Indian wrestlers. Gouache drawing.
  • David playing his harp for a distraught Saul. Steel engraving by P. Vallot after A. Gros.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
  • The death of Bayard: surrendering to the spanish general. Line engraving by C.N. Malapeau after A. Borel.
  • The circumcision of the Shechemites. Engraving by J. Muller (?).
  • Vulcan in his forge with Jupiter throwing bolts of lightning, Venus in the sky above: symbolising the element fire. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • The death of General Marceau, during the retreat at Altenkirchen, 1796. Line engraving by M.G. Eichler, 1817, after A.-L. Giradet.
  • A native North American shaman or medicine man healing a patient. Chromolithograph by C. Schuessele after Captain Eastman.
  • The fatal wounding of Sir Ralph Abercrombie at Alexandria. Line engraving by J. Rogers after T. Stothard.
  • Circe sits with books and wand; to right, men transformed into animals. Etching by G.B. Castiglione, 165-.
  • Red Cross workers sleeping in hammocks during the Serbo-Turkish War. Wood engraving after G. Durand.
  • Four young Maasai men, carrying spears, standing beside a train. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Soraluze-Placencia de las Armas, Spain: the town and its surrounding places, its armaments factory, inscribed tabernacles describing them, and dedications to King Ferdinand VI and the Conde de Aranda. Engraving by J.F. Palomino after J. Zameza after F.J. de Lamot, 1756.
  • A hybrid of a cannon and a clyster is attended by General Georges Mouton and Gabriel Delessert, the chief of police; representing their use of the water-cannon to dispel an uprising. Coloured lithograph.
  • Joseph is dragged from the pit and sold by his brothers to a company of passing Midianites. Line engraving by G. de Jode.
  • A ruler defending a fortress from the invading British. Gouache drawing.
  • Battle in Kabul. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Hundred Years' War: surgeons and craftsmen of surgical instruments being forced to go with the English army as part of the 1415 invasion of France. Gouache painting by A. Forestier, 1913.
  • Durga mounted on her lion fighting a demon army. Gouache drawing.
  • Achilles bandaging the wounded arm of Patroclus. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1936, after an Attic cup by Sosias, c. 500 B.C.
  • A man posing on a pedestal, holding a club (?), in a photographic studio.
  • Sarawak: five Kenyah warriors in a warfare ritual. Photograph.