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  • Five doctors discussing their patient, Napoleon: one of the physicians is examining his rear end. Coloured etching, 1803.
  • A carriage or bathing machine drawn by a sea monster is driven below cliffs: the animal inside has its tail caught in one of the rear wheels; the coachmen and two other passengers speak. Soft-ground etching.
  • Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.
  • William Allen, portrayed as an alchemist with several furnaces, the one which he stokes is labelled "Matter o'money". Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1827.
  • Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

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    Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail against Tapp, who resists the new discovery. Line engraving, c. 1800.

    | Date: 1800 | Reference: 16128i
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    A young man, in the presence of his father, is examined by an academic for admission to university. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.

    Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811. | Date: May 23. 1799 | Reference: 35692i
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    The Prince Regent presenting to political ministers the expected baby of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold, who urinates in their faces; representing the burden of taxation required by the Royal family. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1816.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: 1 August 1816 | Reference: 12212i
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    Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington as nannies protect Lord John Russell and Lord Melbourne who are boys from the taunts of the junior Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.

    Doyle, John, 1797-1868. | Date: 21 July 1838 | Reference: 36807i
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    A man standing on a bank holds a large Union flag which is wrapped around a group of six standing figures believed to be patriots. Engraving 1771.

    | Date: [January 1771] | Reference: 584088i
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