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  • Samson carries the gates of Gaza out of the city. Woodcut.
  • David steals a spear and jug from Saul, who lies deep in a sleep imposed by God. Engraving.
  • Sarawak: five Kenyah warriors in a warfare ritual. Photograph.
  • The resurrected Christ rises over terrified soldiers. Engraving after A. Dürer, 1512.
  • A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo demon depicted on a stand and surmounted on a torana decorated with smaller figures of demon kings and Hindu gods. Transfer lithograph.
  • Sthenelos bandaging the wounded finger of Diomedes. Ink drawing by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after a Chalcidian neck-amphora c. 550 B.C.
  • Narasimha disembowelling Hiranyakasipu in front of his son and attendants. Chromolithograph, 1883.
  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • A surgeon is widening the chest wound of a soldier in order to remove an arrow, they are surrounded by a military encampment and a raging battle. Process print after a drawing by C. Maurer, c. 1594.
  • A surgeon is widening the chest wound of a soldier in order to remove an arrow, they are surrounded by a military encampment and a raging battle. Process print after a drawing by C. Maurer, c. 1594.
  • The fatal wounding of Sir Ralph Abercrombie at Alexandria, 1801. Line engraving.
  • Circe sits with books and wand; to right, men transformed into animals. Etching by G.B. Castiglione, 165-.
  • Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five interior scenes. Collotype.
  • Durga on a lotus with all her weapons surrounded by devotees. Gouache drawing.
  • A mathematician draws a semi-circle while Minerva watches over him. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1591, after M. de Vos.
  • David playing his harp for a distraught Saul. Steel engraving by J. Rogers after A. Gros.
  • The resurrected Christ appears before terrified soldiers. Etching by B. Bartoccini after F. Overbeck, 1848.
  • Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose whenever he saw her. Line engraving by J.C. Levasseur, 1769, after H. Collin de Vermont, 1727.
  • Bullock's Museum, (Egyptian Hall or London Museum), Piccadilly: the interior. Coloured aquatint, 1810.
  • A ruler enthroned defending a fortress from the invading British. Gouache drawing.
  • Henri IV of France touching the head of a kneeling man for the king's evil (scrofula). Line engraving.
  • Three antiquarians discussing pieces of armour held by two of them. Lithograph, 1833.
  • Sarawak: a line-up of armed Sarawak Rangers. Photograph.
  • Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by W. Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman.
  • Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five interior scenes. Collotype.
  • Shiva with the Ganges and Nandi bull with Durga and lion seated on lotuses. Gouache drawing.
  • Christ raises Lazarus from his tomb; weapons hang from above. Engraving by J. Thomson, 1846, after J. Franklin after Rembrandt.
  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • An innkeeper's wife and daughter taking care of Don Quixote's wounds and injuries after being beaten. Engraving after W. Hogarth after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.