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A mat-making couple. Gouache drawing.

A king holding court. Ink drawing.

Transplanting of teeth.

Basket weavers. Gouache drawing.

Page 159: two images of women in their traditional costume. Watercolour drawing.

A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.

A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.

A Patanee couple. Gouache drawing.

Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire. Coloured engraving by P. Brannon, 1846.

Hindu basket maker and wife. Gouache drawing.

The ragged trousered philanthropists / Robert Tressell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Miles.

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

M0012154: Reproduction of an illustration depicting "Bob Sawyer on roof of chaise" from Charles Dickens' Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 1837

Working-class anti-semite : a psychological study in a London borough.

Class counts : comparative studies in class analysis / Erik Olin Wright.

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The ragged trousered philanthropists / Robert Tressell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Miles.

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

M0012154: Reproduction of an illustration depicting "Bob Sawyer on roof of chaise" from Charles Dickens' Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 1837

Working-class anti-semite : a psychological study in a London borough.

Class counts : comparative studies in class analysis / Erik Olin Wright.