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  • The battle of the pictures: between an auction house and Hogarth's studio, old master paintings are lined up in ranks outnumbering and attacking Hogarth's contemporary counterparts. Etching by W. Hogarth.
  • Above, a flying fish hovering over the sea; below, a Chinese village sea-port. Etching by J. Wood.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a sideboard. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) and Saint Joseph with the Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist. Etching by N. Vendura, 1632 (?), after Raphael.
  • A young woman faints on hearing the news of the death of General Wallenstein (?). Line engraving with etching by Peter Carl Geissler.
  • Joseph's brothers show his coat, apparently soaked in his blood, to Jacob, who mourns. Etching.
  • Boccaccio's 'The plague of Florence in 1348'
  • A ruff and a reeve (male and female wading bird) (Philomachus pugnax) on the shore of a river. Etching by W. S. Howitt.
  • A peasant is carrying the nest of a nightingale, which is is sitting on a bush and is about to be swooped by a hawk; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • A prisoner is sitting on straw in a cave with his feet chained to the wall, there are a few provisions on a small shelf in the rock. Etching by R. Blyth after J.H. Mortimer.
  • Saint Thais (?). Etching after G.F. Mazzola, il Parmigianino.
  • An itch mite (Acarus autumnalis). Coloured etching, ca. 1790.
  • Adam naming the animals. Etching by G. Scotin and J. Cole after H. Gravelot and J.B. Chatelain, 1743.
  • A young man in roman dress has smashed an anthropomorphous sculpture with a club; illustration of a fable. Etching.
  • Suttee. Engraving by Walker, 1785, after S. Wale.
  • Noah getting animals and men into the ark. Etching by Ciro Tipaldi.
  • Cabinet-making: decorative architectural elements. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Etching by F. Hortemels, 173-, after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
  • A man applying a plaster to his hand outside in a rural setting; representing the sense of touch. Etching by J.P. Le Bas, 1736, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Two figures: a kneeling human skeleton, with hands tied behind its back, and an écorché figure tied to a tree-trunk. Engraving by Barlow, ca. 1800.
  • Twelve flies (Muscæ species). Coloured etching by M. Harris, ca. 1766.
  • A wizard and his accomplice performing incantations in a forest during a full moon. Etching by S. Palmer and A.H. Palmer.
  • Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Etching by L.E. Grimm, 1823.
  • Women wearing four different styles of fashionable wigs. Coloured etching.
  • Hercules. Etching.
  • An ill man being bled by a surgeon. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • King George III standing, in military uniform; horse in the background. Etching and stipple by B. Smith after W. Beechey, 1804.
  • Twenty five medical conditions humourously illustrated. Coloured etching.
  • The body of Saint Bruno is laid out in state and surrounded by mourning Carthusian monks. Etching with engraving after E. Le Sueur.
  • Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Etching by W. Unger after Titian.