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  • William Pitt the younger places the dome of St Paul's Cathedral over Lincoln Cathedral; representing Pitt's appointment of George Pretyman (Bishop of Lincoln) as also dean of St Paul's. Etching attributed to J. Gillray, 1787.
  • Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • An ill man being bled by a surgeon. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A grimacing invalid seated before a bowl having received an emetic, another man clasps his head compassionately. Etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
  • The wind has caught the umbrella of a man who is skating, causing him to collide with another man. Etching by J. Gillray, 1805.
  • A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • Messenger Monsey. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1789.
  • Two huntsmen in a clearing are surrounded by gypsies who read their palms as a decoy for stealing their belongings. Etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after B. North.
  • A fashionable mother wearing a dress with slits across the breasts in order to feed her baby before she dashes off to the carriage waiting outside. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • A man pulling a peculiar face as he is about to take some medicine. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1801, after J. Gillray.
  • A man standing by a fire place, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1800.
  • A sick man stranded on the toilet after taking a laxative. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • English courtesans being sold at auction to British and Asian men in a port controlled by the East India Company. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, ca. 1815, after J. Gillray.
  • The coming-on of the monsoons;-or-the retreat from Seringapatam.
  • A man standing by a fire place, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1800.
  • Charles James Fox, dangerously ill, visited by an entourage of interested factions; representing the social and ministerial conflict surrounding him. Aquatint after J. Gillray, 1806.
  • A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A guardian angel is carrying a child up into the sky to an altar dedicated to a parody of the Virgin. Etching by James Gillray, 1805.
  • A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • A woman carrying a chair sweeps away from a young man who has approached her, indicating her refusal to dance with him; another young woman is sitting on a chair behind him. Etching by James Gillray, 1804, after B. North.
  • A voluminous woman crossing a bush in a circle of foliage to get to a latrine; perhaps representing Garnerin's London balloon flights of the time. Etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
  • Admiral Rodney stands between Britannia and Neptune. Etching by J. Gillray, 1782.
  • A man standing by a fire place, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured lithograph after J. Gillray.
  • A grimacing invalid seated before a bowl having received an emetic, another man clasps his head compassionately. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A man suddenly awakened by two squalling cats. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is in such pain that he pulls the tooth-drawer's wig off. Coloured etching after J. Gillray (?).
  • William Pitt the younger as an alchemist using a crown-shaped bellows to blow the flames of a furnace and heat a glass vessel in which the House of Commons is distilled; representing the dissolution of parliament by Pitt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • A lecture on pneumatics at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.