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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.

The Caelian hill, Rome, seen from the Palatine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.

The Palatine hill, Rome, seen from the Aventine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

People promenading in Belgravia. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.

An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a stage to a large audience in a town square. Engraving.

A London dentist extracting a tooth from a woman's mouth; her female companion and the dentist's black servant-boy are present. Coloured mezzotint after Robert Dighton, ca. 1784.

A bath-house containing six men and an onlooker, perhaps an allegory of the four humours and five senses. Photolithograph after A. Dürer, c. 1496.

The town and a changing civilisation / by David V. Glass.

People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

Palazzo Durazzo-Pallavicini, Genoa: the façade on Via Balbi. Etching by G.L. Guidotti after G. Torricelli after A. Giolfi.

The Aventine hill, Rome, seen from the Capitol. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

The Viminal hill, Rome, seen from the slopes of the Quirinal. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

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The town and a changing civilisation / by David V. Glass.

People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

Palazzo Durazzo-Pallavicini, Genoa: the façade on Via Balbi. Etching by G.L. Guidotti after G. Torricelli after A. Giolfi.

The Aventine hill, Rome, seen from the Capitol. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

The Viminal hill, Rome, seen from the slopes of the Quirinal. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.