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  • Snake charmer with wife holding the snake. Gouache drawing.
  • Saint Cecilia with Saint Paul the Apostle, Saint John the Evangelist, a bishop and Saint Mary Magdalen. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after Raphael.
  • Aeolus, at the request of Juno, opens a door in a mountainside, releasing the winds that will wreck the fleet of Aeneas; representing the element air. Engraving by C. Dupuis, 1718, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.
  • An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animal's bladder. Drypoint by L. Flameng.
  • A begging Brahman performing a ritual with his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.
  • Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five interior scenes. Collotype.
  • An old man with a wooden leg, probably a former soldier, marches with a shouldered broomstick to the drum beaten by a child behind him. Lithograph by T. Farlow after R. Farrier.
  • Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.
  • Cupid (Love) with arrows sits next to items representing arts and sciences. Etching by H. Winstanley, 17--, after F. Snyders and A. van Dyck.
  • A seething mass of people driven by a multitude of different wills; representing the levelling of life by death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1690.
  • An old man in ragged clothes and a feathery fur cap playing the hurdy gurdy. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • A female figure playing a stringed instrument; representing music. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.
  • An arrangement of different castes including snake charmer, brick-layer, basket-maker, potter and wives. Gouache drawing.
  • A man with a wooden leg plays the violin while his wife and children accompany him with a song. Coloured lithograph.
  • A one-legged hurdy gurdy player dressed in rags with his companion, an old woman dressed in rags reading from a song sheet. Engraving with etching by J. Matham after Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne.
  • Jephthah's daughter contemplating her virginity and her imminent death, surrounded by woeful attendants with musical instruments. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1846, after H. O'Neil.
  • A parade of soldiers marching past l'Hopital Blindé and ambulancemen. Lithograph by Raffet.
  • Apollo, god of literature, plays his harp; a town goes about its rituals. Engraving by J. Sadeler after J. van der Straet, 1594.
  • A badly wounded soldier being carried off the battlefield on a makeshift stretcher made of bayonets. Coloured aquatint.
  • A group of musicians; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by A. Bosse, c. 1650.
  • A theatrical itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage to a crowd, assisted by an elaborately dressed man and an owl. Coloured etching.
  • A bedridden sick young woman being examined by a doctor, accompanied by her anxious parents. Engraving by F. Engleheart, 1838, after Sir D. Wilkie.
  • The orgies and wild dances of the ancient Romans. Engraving.
  • A theatrical itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage to a crowd, assisted by an elaborately dressed man and an owl. Coloured etching.
  • African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.
  • An albino woman of African descent, with white instead of black skin. Engraving by C. Guttenberg after J. de Sève, 1777.
  • Apollo and a woman play music near a fountain, while a winged nymph sings; representing music. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
  • Saint Cecilia with Saint Paul the Apostle, Saint John the Evangelist, a bishop and Saint Mary Magdalene. Engraving by F. Rosaspina, 1830, after himself after Raphael.
  • The coronation of the Virgin in Heaven. Etching by C. Schut.