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Satyrs grouped around a statue, displaying the attributes of greed and venality. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.

Vice in the barracks : medicine, the military and the making of colonial India, 1780-1868 / Erica Wald, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

The fortunes of Peter Pickle, Esquire, whose fashionable lifestyle ends with a drink problem. Etching by R. Seymour, 1829.

A wealthy bürger refuses charity to an old couple. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

Sikh ascetics misbehaving: preparing drugs, slothfulness, begging, teaching the young wrong ways. Coloured transfer lithograph.

King Louis XII stands before Reason who condemns luxury. Lithograph by E. Guichard, 184-.

A woman representing virtue is captured and bound by two men representing ignorance and error, assisted by Cupid representing love and a woman representing opinion. Chiaroscuro woodcut by A. Andreani, 1585, after J. Ligozzi.

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