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A woman holding a man's head while he is sick into a bowl. Coloured lithograph.

A contagiously ill man asks for the bed-pan; the nurse tells him that it will cost ten sous for the risk. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: a ward, with a timetable for the day. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A man recuperating in bed at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, after resuscitation by W. Hawes and J.C. Lettsom from near drowning. Watercolour by R. Smirke.

A sick man in bed, offered a warming pan by his maid and advice by his physician; representing Lord John Russell being given a seat at Stroud by Melbourne after his defeat in South Devon, looking for support to the radical Daniel O'Connell. Lithograph, 1835.

Specification of John Walter Cawley Wren : beds for invalids.

The Young Pretender, accompanied by two winged cupids, half reclines on a couch with one foot on a footstall, holding the handle of a warming pan with a portrait of the Old Pretender. Engraving, ca. 1745.

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Specification of John Walter Cawley Wren : beds for invalids.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: a ward, with a timetable for the day. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A man recuperating in bed at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, after resuscitation by W. Hawes and J.C. Lettsom from near drowning. Watercolour by R. Smirke.

The Young Pretender, accompanied by two winged cupids, half reclines on a couch with one foot on a footstall, holding the handle of a warming pan with a portrait of the Old Pretender. Engraving, ca. 1745.

A sick man in bed, offered a warming pan by his maid and advice by his physician; representing Lord John Russell being given a seat at Stroud by Melbourne after his defeat in South Devon, looking for support to the radical Daniel O'Connell. Lithograph, 1835.