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Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Etching by W. Unger after Titian.

Zaleucus having one of his eyes removed for one of his son's eyes, with six lines of verse by A. Montanus below. Line engraving by H. Quellinus after A. Quellinus.

Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.

Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Engraving by W. Bromley after P.P. Rubens.

A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.

A man walks arm in arm with a woman while looking back at a prostitute in a check coat; representing the need for prostitutes to use condoms to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph after Ullstein Bilderdienst for Hydra, 199-.

A physician trying to take advantage of a young woman patient by visiting her at home while her husband is out. Coloured lithograph, 1852.

A man leans on the shoulder of his partner while looking back at another woman with the message: "Absence of trust is the end of safety. AIDS is not like getting a cold ... Do not give AIDS a chance". Colour lithograph, 199-.

Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Engraving by R. Pranker, 176-, after J. (?) Houbraken.

A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.

Tropic of Capricorn / Henry Miller.

Judicia (seu legum censuræ) de variis incontinentiæ speciebus, adulterio scil., polygamia & concubinatu, fornicatione, stupro, raptu, peccatis contra naturam, incestu & gradibus prohibitis : additâ insuper explicatione quî ex communi rationis jure delicta hæc inhonesta, & humanæ felicitati inimica esse arguantur / ... per Robertum Sharrock.

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A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.

A man leans on the shoulder of his partner while looking back at another woman with the message: "Absence of trust is the end of safety. AIDS is not like getting a cold ... Do not give AIDS a chance". Colour lithograph, 199-.

Tropic of Capricorn / Henry Miller.

Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.