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  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • The Caelian hill, Rome, seen from the Palatine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.
  • The Palatine hill, Rome, seen from the Aventine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • People promenading in Belgravia. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a stage to a large audience in a town square. Engraving.
  • A London dentist extracting a tooth from a woman's mouth; her female companion and the dentist's black servant-boy are present. Coloured mezzotint after Robert Dighton, ca. 1784.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • A bath-house containing six men and an onlooker, perhaps an allegory of the four humours and five senses. Photolithograph after A. Dürer, c. 1496.
  • The Viminal hill, Rome, seen from the slopes of the Quirinal. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • Entrance to the sewers of a European city, a breeding ground for rats and plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A musician playing the clarinet outside a town-house is given threepence by a footman and asked to move on, but the musician asks for more money. Steel engraving after R. Seymour.
  • An elaborately dressed medicine vendor selling his wares from a stage to an audience, he points to a member of the crowd whose appearence suggests he is a doctor. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819.
  • A street scene in a European city, prior to the arrival of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The angel of death (a winged skeletal creature) drops some deadly substances into a river near a town; representing typhoid. Watercolour, 1912, after R. Cooper.
  • People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with two assistants and a monkey, selling his wares to an excitable crowd. Coloured wood engraving by J. Oortman.
  • The Esquiline hill, Rome, seen from the Colosseum. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • The Capitoline hill, Rome, seen from the foot of the Aventine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.
  • A poor family starves in the centre of Paris: a workman brings them a bowl of soup, a banker for a "Philanthropic bank" ignores them, public funds are spent on a new stock exchange, and books are advertised advocating self-help. Lithograph by Villain after N.-T. Charlet, 1840.
  • An apothecary grinding a mixture with his pestle and mortar, amidst a working town. Woodcut by Brant(?).
  • A poor street peddlar selling rhubarb and spices in London. Wood engraving after R. Beard.
  • A Bombay square: some men carry sedan chairs and others smoke. Coloured aquatint after R.M. Grindlay, 1826.
  • The Quirinal hill, Rome, seen from the Palatine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • Russo-Japanese War: a street scene in Tokyo with wounded Japanese sitting in a cart. Pen and ink drawing by D. MacPherson, 1904.
  • Three episodes about horticultural abnormalities and one episode about a young doctor on a visit. Letterpress and wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1865.
  • The Aventine hill, Rome, seen from the Capitol. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.