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The Queen's Dolls' House: The Library
Hyde Park as it will be
Wenceslaus Hollar Etchings
A large man contemplating a child's coffin
The lime-burner
Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, eating and drinking to excess
A lecherous doctor taking the pulse of an old woman while fondling a young one
Zoological Society of London: a lynx
The wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope to Thomas Taylor, a surgeon-apothecary: the bride is given away by her father Earl …
A female barber shaving a man
Sikandra, near Agra, Uttar Pradesh: mausoleum of the Emperor Akbar
A European gentleman smoking a hooka and being attended to by Asian men
The ministry of Spencer Perceval defending their government, represented as a citadel, against attack by Opposition …
A seated man in front of a chamber pot which is emitting bubbles, a group of people stand behind him
Hospital of St Cross, Winchester, Hampshire: hall
Tomb of Killader at Ouscottah, Karnataka
Large rock in the river Ganges, India
A woman sitting at her dressing table applying rouge to her face
The battle at Issus in 333 BC: Alexander the Great of Macedonia is chasing the fleeing Darius III
The plague of darkness
A queen in red is presented with dishes of blood on a hill
A woman with her children praying before a cross where her husband was killed
Ghat near Etawah on the river Yamuna, Uttar Pradesh
Young children wearing enormously wide-brimmed hats as they play in the fields
A Chinese tea plantation with workers cleaning the racks on which the leaves are laid
Two dwarfs make tuneless music
An ill man next to his empty hearth tormented by the miseries of life
A man fast asleep with his head back and wig dangling
The plague of insects
Four shrews swimming and hunting for food on a grassy bank
A Golden Eagle sitting on the branch of a dead tree
A fearful woman (Britannia) is encouraged by three British politicians to resist the invading fleet of France
The Green Bag Committee investigating allegations of sedition and unrest
Glory pea (Clianthus puniceus): flowering stem, pod and seed
A drunken woman standing in the street in St Giles's, London
Mercury lies dying from cholera, surrounded by ministers
Buddhist pagodas at Deoghar, Bihar
Police raid a lodging house at night and arrest a convicted thief
The Virgin of the Annunciation
A land tortoise
An ill man being bled by a surgeon
Orange lily (Lilium species): flowering stem
An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr Slop with his wig on fire angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near …
Jean Paul Marat
Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville, bleeds Neptune while Alexander Trotter holds a bowl to catch the guineas which flow …
An Indian widow being led to suttee
The Chalis Satun, or Hall of Forty Pillars, at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
A corpulent woman provides the pustule for the vaccination of a child by a couple of dandified doctors
Rock balsam plant (Clusia rosea): flowering and fruiting branch
A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant
A tree bearing fruit labelled with virtues
Town fops including L Skeffington, J Penn and Lord Kirkcudbright, feigning fashionable wounds after the return of the …
A bull frog
A convicted thief sits in prison with his distraught sister who has been acquitted
A milk maid shows her cowpoxed hand to a physician, while a farmer or surgeon offers to a dandy inoculation with …
The plague of hail and thunder
Temple of Vesta or Fortuna Virilis, Rome
A shaving machine powered by steam
A sequence of eight images showing men shaving
A patient suffering perpetual coldness surrounded by perplexed physicians attempting their cures
The Traghetto, no, 2
Women wearing anormous headwear amusing themselves by playing music, dancing and drawing
The "Adam and Eve," Old Chelsea
A family of kangaroos relaxing on a grassy bank with koalas and other marsupials nearby
Zoological Society of London: an ostrich
An obese man consulting a doctor
A man standing by a fireplace, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine
Warm source of the Scamander
A prisoner lies dying in his bed, his life ruined by earlier frivolity
A convalescing woman trying in vain to rouse her slumbering hired nurse: the cat scavenges her food and the candle …
A chlamyphore
A thin, anxious patient consulting a doctor
Temple of Venus and Rome, Rome
A group of Bengali guenons in a forest
A pork-butcher's shop: two butchers are working with knives and cleavers as another makes sausages, a woman has come …
The first plague in Egypt, rivers turned to blood
Gateway to the Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh
A sick old woman seated between two doctors each prescribing different medication
A male dwarf sexually aroused by a sleeping female dwarf
A haggard old woman taking a large file to the corns on her feet
Mantis foliatus
God creates man in the Garden of Eden
The entrance to the Great Chaitya Temple on the island of Salsette, Maharashtra
A beardless young man asks his hair-dresser to shave his beard: another hair-dresser and his client look on in amusement
A young man looks into a window of a barber's shop, the barber looks out of a pane: one man and two women walk by
A man standing by a fireplace, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine
Dr Flannel suggests to a fashionable lady that she wear a flannel petticoat to keep her legs warm
The palaces
A grimacing invalid seated before a bowl having received an emetic, another man clasps his head compassionately
A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is in such pain that he pulls the tooth-drawer's wig off
A sick man stranded on the toilet after taking a laxative
An obese bald-headed old man seated in an armchair while a hairdresser pours macassar oil from a bottle on to his scalp
Two gibbons are climbing a tree while a chimpanzee and two orang-utans are playing with thr branches of the tree on …
Daniel Lambert, weighing over fifty stone, aged 36
A sailor with a bandaged eye consulting a mercenary medical practitioner
A grumpy physician taking the pulse of an alarmed man