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Jesus sits in the spacious house of Martha and Mary. Etching by J-G. Caquet after Meunier after H. van Steenwyk the younger.

Five men sit smoking round a fireplace, another stands with his back to the fire. Mezzotint after A. van Ostade (?).

A drunken man sits at home with his family who must pawn their clothes to pay for his habit. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

A Chinese lady , seated indoors, playing a string instrument at an open window; left, a carved stone wall. Gouache.

An old gentleman visitor offering snuff to an old woman at her fireside. Coloured lithograph by J. J. Chalon, c. 1821, after himself.

A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.

People, animals, furnishings and paraphernalia, fantasy subjects etc. Gouache paintings, 18--.

A physician examining the children of a poor Italian family. Lithograph by F. van Loo after E. de Jans.

A Chinese lady in a blue dress, seated, right, looks out of a window at a water-garden, left; trees in blossom in the foreground. Gouache.

A Chinese lady looking at herself in a mirror (right); outside, a water-garden (left). Gouache.

A physician bandaging the hand of a boy, who is surrounded by his large family. Heliogravure by Dujardin after P.A.J. Dagnan-Bouveret.

A man sits at home with his family and offers his wife a drink. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

Abel Beechcroft, while reading in the library of his house in Lambeth, is disturbed when Hilda Scarve is led into the room by his butler Jukes. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1842.

A Chinese lady in a red dress, seated indoors, takes a meal from six small bowls; right, two herons look on, hungry for food. Gouache.

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A physician bandaging the hand of a boy, who is surrounded by his large family. Heliogravure by Dujardin after P.A.J. Dagnan-Bouveret.

A Chinese lady in a blue dress, seated, right, looks out of a window at a water-garden, left; trees in blossom in the foreground. Gouache.

A man sits at home with his family and offers his wife a drink. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

Abel Beechcroft, while reading in the library of his house in Lambeth, is disturbed when Hilda Scarve is led into the room by his butler Jukes. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1842.

A Chinese lady in a red dress, seated indoors, takes a meal from six small bowls; right, two herons look on, hungry for food. Gouache.