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

Hyde Park, near Kensington Palace: ladies and children drinking from a spring and eating a picnic. Engraving by J. Godby, 1802, after Mary Spilsbury.

A character dressed eccentrically, holding an umbrella and walking on raised shoes. Etching.

Theodora de Verdion, an eccentric teacher of languages, a book seller and collector of medals. Engraving, 1803.

London Ophthalmic Infirmary, and the Catholic church, Finsbury. Coloured engraving by R. Acon after T. H. Shepherd.

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.

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

A fashionable young lady with large plume in her hat being carried through the town in a sedan chair. Etching, c. 1796.

Two men, one in Punjabi dress, one in European dress. Watercolour.

People stand under a freestanding green umbrella which protects them from the rain; representing the protection conferred by the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Cure Law (Revised) in China in 2004. Colour lithograph, 2004.

A large kokerite palm (Maximiliana maripa) and the artist drawing it, in a tropical landscape. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855.

A man selling bellows and another selling umbrellas. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux.

Henry Hansard. Colour lithograph by C. Pellegrini (Ape), 1884.

George Ridding. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1901.

A woman standing at the wet roadside holding an umbrella against the rain. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden.

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A large kokerite palm (Maximiliana maripa) and the artist drawing it, in a tropical landscape. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855.

A man selling bellows and another selling umbrellas. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux.

Henry Hansard. Colour lithograph by C. Pellegrini (Ape), 1884.

George Ridding. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1901.

A woman standing at the wet roadside holding an umbrella against the rain. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden.