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Michael Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution: Prince Albert and his sons in the audience. Wood engraving, 1856, after A. Blaikley.

Figures outside the Royal Institution. Line engraving by G. Aikman, 1841, after G.M. Kemp.

A queen chess piece next to a condom on a chess board with the diagonal statement in Spanish 'Queen takes control'; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Ana Busto/Caterina Borelli, ca. 1994.

Boer War: article "Women in the war", with an illustration of Queen Victoria with families of reservists at Windsor. Text by A. Hugh Fisher, and halftone after S. Begg, 1900.

Sakuntala with two women surprised by King Dushyanta. Chromolithograph.

A crowned woman in red holding a rose-topped caduceus; she is suspended in a circle of water; a cherub blows wind from above; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.

The London Hospital, Whitechapel: the ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the new wing. Wood engraving, 1864.

Boer War: Queen Victoria presenting flowers to a wounded soldier during a visit to the Herbert hospital, Woolwich. Halftone after S. Begg, 1900.

The chair on which the Duke of York (1763-1827?) died. Coloured engraving, ca. 1827.

The London Hospital, Whitechapel: King Edward VIII and Queen Alexandra in the Finsen Light room. Process print after a drawing by A. Forestier, c.1903.

A queen dressed in blue, representing mercury, in a crowned alchemical flask. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.

A king sits drinking at a table surrounded by revelling courtiers and a man about to vomit. Engraving after J. Jordaens, c. 1640.

Page 14: two portraits of Raja Dena Nath and Mohid Khan King of Kabul. Watercolour drawing.

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The London Hospital, Whitechapel: King Edward VIII and Queen Alexandra in the Finsen Light room. Process print after a drawing by A. Forestier, c.1903.

A queen dressed in blue, representing mercury, in a crowned alchemical flask. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.

The chair on which the Duke of York (1763-1827?) died. Coloured engraving, ca. 1827.

A king sits drinking at a table surrounded by revelling courtiers and a man about to vomit. Engraving after J. Jordaens, c. 1640.

Page 14: two portraits of Raja Dena Nath and Mohid Khan King of Kabul. Watercolour drawing.