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The death of General Simon Fraser at the Battle of Bemis Heights, Saratoga: key print. Letterpress and etching, 1803, after J. Graham.

Key to the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. Print by Barclays Bros., 1902.

John Wesley preaching in a large church. Engraving, 1823.

Key to composite photograph: Leaders in medicine and surgery, 1876. Letterpress (?), 1876.

Key plate to the print of the death of Lord Chatham, in the Upper Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, 1778. Engraving, 1791, after J.S. Copley.

The School of Athens: a key to the figures in the centre of the composition. Engraving by G. Volpato, after Raphael.

A border of plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D., with the main plants labelled. Photograph.

British inventors, politicians and military men: a key to the identities of the sitters. Engraving by C.G. Lewis, 1863, after T.J. Barker.

The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is taken from the battle after being wounded in the thigh (key to the painting). Engraving, 1804, after R. Ker Porter.

The distinguished men of science 1807-8: a key to the identities of the sitters. Photograph of engraving by W. Walker, 1862, after Sir J. Gilbert.

The site of Horace's villa. Etching and engraving by B.A. Dunker and F.B. Lorieux after J. Ph. Hackert, 1780.

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The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is taken from the battle after being wounded in the thigh (key to the painting). Engraving, 1804, after R. Ker Porter.

The site of Horace's villa. Etching and engraving by B.A. Dunker and F.B. Lorieux after J. Ph. Hackert, 1780.

The death of General Simon Fraser at the Battle of Bemis Heights, Saratoga: key print. Letterpress and etching, 1803, after J. Graham.

A border of plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D., with the main plants labelled. Photograph.

Key to the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. Print by Barclays Bros., 1902.