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James Graham lecturing from a podium, to a crowd of ladies and gentlemen. Etching by J. Kay, 1785, after himself.

The Indian Punjabi Mir Munshi Sultan Mohammad, head of the English department of the secretarait of Emir Abd or-Rahman. Translator and compiler of the autobiography of the Emire and Afghanistan ambassador to London.

Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.

Nurses being lectured on bandaging using a mannequin on a hospital ward. Drawing by J. Belon.

Bathers at the banks of the Jordan river, with Achmet Aga, the governor of Jerusalem, with his guards, looking on. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.

Open-air market outside the temple of Shah Ahmed, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Coloured lithograph by R. Carrick after Lieutenant James Rattray, c. 1847.

Men playing draughts in Button's coffee-house ca. 1720 Aquatint by S. Ireland after W. Hogarth.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford: quadrangle. Line engraving by J. & H.S. Storer.

Hindu fakir with one shoe and half a moustache, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.

The last moments of Napoleon Bonaparte at St Helena, 1821. Engraving by Bovinet and Couché after Gudin.

Mettray penal colony, Mettray, France: the infirmary. Tinted lithograph by Sauvé & Faivre after A. Thierry.

Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

History of British costume / [J.R. Planché].

Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford: figures strolling along the footpath. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1834, after F. Mackenzie.

Monastery of St. Catherine beneath Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.

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Mettray penal colony, Mettray, France: the infirmary. Tinted lithograph by Sauvé & Faivre after A. Thierry.

Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

History of British costume / [J.R. Planché].

Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford: figures strolling along the footpath. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1834, after F. Mackenzie.

Monastery of St. Catherine beneath Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.