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  • The fortunes of Peter Pickle, Esquire, whose fashionable lifestyle ends with a drink problem. Etching by R. Seymour, 1829.
  • A group of women gathered around a fireplace listening to a young man holding forth. Coloured etching by John Leech.
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion
  • A grossly obese man supporting his stomach in a wheelbarrow, a young fop looks on. Etching by S. Ireland, 178-, after J.H. Mortimer.
  • Office staff, group photograph
  • A couple in fashionable dress. Woodcut.
  • Women wearing enormous headwear amusing themselves by playing music, dancing and drawing. Coloured etching.
  • Westerners at Yokohama, Japan, enjoying a lavish tea ceremony as a cellist plays to them. Coloured woodcut by Chikahisa, c. 1865, after Yoshikazu.
  • A penny-barber preparing to shave a seated customer who is being lathered with a large brush by a boy assistant, in the background another barber shaves another customer. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • A man is being taught how to bow, and a woman how to curtsey. Coloured etching, 1801.
  • Queen Caroline, wife of King George IV, is greeted by people from Marylebone. Etching by Th. Hook, 1820.
  • A young woman posing in a photographic studio, wearing an unusual dress, in front of a plain backdrop.
  • A woman with a very elaborate hair style and a rump extended with cork armatures is being pursued by winged uncorked bottles. Etching, 1777.
  • A couple in fashionable dress. Woodcut.
  • William Doyle, Samuel Sone, and William Foster, walking on the North Bridge in Edinburgh, in uniform, each with a lady. Etching by J. Kay, 1784, after himself.
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • Six fashionable young men carousing round a table as a serving man opens another bottle of ale. Engraving, c. 1796.
  • Two men wearing the fashionable dress of checked trousers, top hats, cravats, waistcoats and top coats. Coloured lithograph after J.V. Barret, ca 1860.
  • The elaborately dressed rake holds a purse as a man presents him with an invoice; a lace-seller, a fencing master, a violin player, a cocker and a jockey represent the services and pursuits he is engaged in. Engraving by Thomas Bowles, 1735.
  • A brass corset used to minimise the waist or as an orthopedic device to support the back or correct a spinal deformity. Probably English
  • Men and woman in fashionable dress sit and stand around as boys polish the men's boots. Etching, 1801.
  • Six coloured condoms as fashionable accessories representing a safe sex advertisement by the APF (Associação para o Planeamento da Familia, Family Planning Association). Colour lithograph by XIS, ca. 1995.
  • M. A. Slavina, in front of a plain, or airbrushed, background.
  • A young woman posing in a photographic studio, holding a fan, in front of a painted backdrop of a rural scene.
  • A fashionable young lady with large plume in her hat being carried through the town in a sedan chair. Etching, c. 1796.
  • Six arms showing different designs of tattoo, and two smaller views of tattoos. Process print, 1903.
  • A woman doctor, perhaps a midwife, diagnosing pregnancy in a young woman: her dismayed parents are in the background. Mezzotint, 1778.
  • A couple in fashionable dress. Woodcut by Hans Schäufelein, 15--.
  • Rembrandt, portrayed perhaps as the prodigal son, stands with his arm round a lady (represented by his wife Saskia) by a banquet table and raises his glass. Lithograph after Rembrandt van Rijn.
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