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  • A wealthy Mohammedan smoking a hooka as two attendants fan him. Engraving by J. Stephenson, 1835, after W. Daniell.
  • Abraham's servant is impressed by the beautiful Rebecca, who stands in white amid the women around the well. Engraving by P.-I. Drevet after N. Coypel.
  • A physician informing a young woman and her mother that she is pregnant, a servant is listening at the door. Engraving by T. Holloway.
  • A good servant, represented as a hybrid creature combining a man, a pig, an ass and a deer, carrying cleaning implements and having a padlocked mouth. Engraving after J. Hoskins.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop being attacked by Susannah with a saucepan, while the nurse holds the baby Tristram Shandy. Etching after L. Sterne.
  • A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
  • An old sailor with wooden leg and a man with no arms drinking in a tavern; below is a song about their seafaring days. Etching by I. Cruikshank, c. 1791.
  • Two black domestic servants in European dress. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The childless Sarah presents Hagar, her handmaid, to her husband Abraham. Line engraving by J.G. Wille after C.W.E. Dietricy.
  • An ill man reluctantly taking his medicine. Etching by W.H. Brooke after R. Dagley.
  • A servant asking her employer's dentist to fill one of her teeth. Process print after T. Evans, 1929.
  • A wealthy Chinese man sits at home smoking: two servants stand nearby. Coloured aquatint by T. & W. Daniell, c. 1810.
  • A corpulent gentleman with indigestion. Line engraving, c. 18th century.
  • 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.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop, with his wig on fire, angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near the wounded baby Tristram Shandy. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
  • A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
  • A physician and nurse attending a sick patient (?) and her servant. Watercolour.
  • A physician examining a urine flask of a scantily dressed attractive woman who is in bed surrounded by her mother, lover and servant. Engraving by A.F. David after J.B. Leprince.
  • A good servant, represented as a hybrid creature combining a man, a pig, an ass and a deer, carrying cleaning implements and having a padlocked mouth. Engraving, 1749, after J. Hoskins.
  • A midwife presenting a new born royal (?) baby to its father and to the royal court. Etching.
  • A man being given a steam bath that is going drastically wrong. Wood engraving.
  • A Mrua medicine man or shaman with his assistants, Central Africa. Coloured wood engraving after V.L. Cameron.
  • Judith with Holofernes' head; her maid behind her. Line engraving after C. Allori.
  • Lazarus's sores are licked by dogs as Dives feasts. Process print, 1931, after J. Lamsveld.