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  • Hudibras addresses a lawyer who sits in an elaborately decorated pew next to shelf of books; two clerks sit beneath. Aquatint by J. Merigot, 1799, after William Hogarth.
  • A physician examining a pregnant woman's urine specimen in his library. Mezzotint.
  • Four elaborately-dressed ladies consulting books in a private library. Engraving.
  • Giovanni Battista Monteggia. Stipple engraving by Sasso after A. Bramati.
  • A physician in his study writing a prescription for his waiting patient. Oil painting by Pieter Jakob Horemans, 1745.
  • Johannes Albert Gesner. Mezzotint by J. J. Haid after Grooth.
  • David Copperfield as a boy enters the study of Dr Strong who is absorbed in lexicographic work; his young wife Annie is sitting on a stool at his feet. Etching by Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne), 1849.
  • Abraham Vater. Line engraving by J. M. Bernigeroth, 1752.
  • A phrenologist comparing his own head with a phrenological bust. Oil painting by Albert W. Holden.
  • William John Griffinhoofe, surgeon-apothecary at Hampton, Middlesex. Oil painting.
  • The library of Pierre Séguier: painting and music support putti trumpeting the fame of the library. Engraving by M. Dorigny after S. Vouet, 1640.
  • Michael Alberti. Line engraving by J. C. Sysang after J. A. Rüdiger.
  • Godefridus Thomasius. Mezzotint by B. Vogel, 1735, after J. Kupetzky.
  • Johannes Maius (Mai, May). Line engraving by J. Sandrart after D. Hornung.
  • A phrenologist comparing his own head with a phrenological bust. Oil painting by Albert W. Holden.
  • Joseph Warder. Line engraving by H. Hulsbergh, 1720.
  • A phrenologist comparing his own head with a phrenological bust. Oil painting by Albert W. Holden.
  • Friedrich Boerner. Line engraving by J.C. Sysang after A. Tischbein.
  • Gilles Everaerts. Line engraving, 1800.
  • Sarah Ponsonby (left)and Lady Eleanor Butler, recluses known as the Ladies of Llangollen, seated in their library. Lithograph by R.J. Lane, ca. 1832, after Mary Parker (later Lady Leighton), 1828.
  • Anthony Colley (Colly). Wash drawing en grisaille attributed to G. P. Harding.
  • Franz Ernst Brueckmann. Line engraving.
  • Robert Conny. Mezzotint by J. Faber, 1722, after A. Vanderhagen.
  • François Alexandre Frédéric, Duc de Larochefoucauld-Liancourt. Line engraving by A. M. Monsaldy.
  • Petrus de Montagnana. Photograph after a woodcut, 1495.
  • A physician in his study writing a prescription for his waiting patient. Oil painting by Pieter Jakob Horemans, 1745.
  • François Alexandre Frédéric, Duc de Larochefoucauld-Liancourt. Line engraving by A. M. Monsaldy.
  • A phrenologist in his consulting room, examining the head of a young man and dictating the results to his assistant while a woman looks on. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, 1826, after H.T.D.B.
  • Théophile Bonet. Line engraving, 1700.
  • Antoine, Baron Portal. Lithograph by L. Nöel after C. E. Callande de Champmartin, 1833.