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  • A patient lies on a chaise-longue, while a nurse brings her some refreshment. Wood engraving by J.C. Griffiths after G.G. Kilburne.
  • An amateur barber shaving a man outside. Wood engraving by C.J. Mettais.
  • A street during the plague in London with a death cart and mourners. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans.
  • A bathing kiosk. Wood engraving.
  • A physician examining an elderly patient in his surgery. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1906.
  • Hop pickers at work. Wood-engraving, c. 1842 (?).
  • St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, London: four views. Wood engravings by T. Gilks and J. S. Heaviside after W.A. Delamotte, 1847.
  • Parodies of pictures at the Royal Academy: women enjoying a bottle of wine, a nun wearing a wimple and a cross, a man riding a hobby horse and a dog with very large teeth. Wood engraving by Dalziel Brothers after John Gordon Thomson, 1871-1872.
  • Crimean War: drying closet as used by Scutari Hospital. Wood engraving.
  • A well attended meeting of "total abstainers" in the Sadler's Wells Theatre. Wood engraving, c. 1854, after G. Cruikshank.
  • A bearded dandy admiring the ladies through his monocle on 'Buffers Walk' in the public gardens. Coloured wood engraving by W.H. Harrison.
  • A woman roller-skating has springs attached to her front and back for protection as all others are falling over on the ice. Wood engraving, 18--.
  • Astronomy: a large refracting telescope. Engraving.
  • An older monkey teaching a younger one to read. Reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Linton after E. Morin.
  • Sadler's Wells, as it was in 1737, with fashionable water-drinkers. Wood engraving, [post 1840].
  • Zoological Society of London: a variety of animals, including a lion, a goat and a tiger. Wood engraving.
  • A military doctor prescribing whiskey lotion for a soldier's sprained foot - his patient requesting Irish. Wood engraving by A.C. Corbould, 1885.
  • Three men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina), in a forest. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • A European man in India (?) being carried in a litter on the shoulders of four men. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker.
  • A physician diagnoses war veterans. Wood engraving, c. 1870.
  • Queen's college, Belfast. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing after C. Lanyon.
  • A male figure and three phrenological heads. Wood engraving.
  • Ormond College, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria. Wood engraving.
  • The story of a man with toothache, his attempts at self help and the final resort visiting the dental surgeon: twenty-four vignettes. Coloured wood engraving by W. Busch, 1862.
  • J. Berryman : engraver on wood, 11 Gough Square, Fleet Street.
  • Sudan: fighting, medical and social activity. Wood engraving and process print by J.F.W. after M. Prior and W.S. Perry.
  • Franco-Prussian War: English ambulance services encamped outside the Park of St. Germain, Paris. Wood engraving.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner, with a pipe in one hand and a stick in the other, being rolled out of a sheet [hammock?] by a sailor. Wood engraving by J. Jackson.
  • The New-York State Asylum for Idiots, Syracuse. Wood engraving.
  • Crimean War, England: caricature possibly a play on class and language or corruption within the Crimean Fund Office connected with Florence Nightingale. Wood engraving by N.