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  • A new-born child being given its first bath. Engraving, 1800.
  • Medusa presiding over groups of satyrs who are gambling; representing gambling or gaming as a passion. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • An allegorical woman on clouds, surrounded by gamboling angels above a landscape with rainbow, lovers and a shepherd with young lambs; representing spring. Etching by C.F. Fritsch the younger.
  • A man looking through a magnifying glass at a picture of a monkey, whose flatulence extinguishes the flame of a candle; representing the pleasures of the sense of sight. Engraving, 17--.
  • A woman holding the caduceus and a bunch of keys; representing dialectic. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • The Thames as a gateway to foreign trade routes. Etching by J. Barry, 1791.
  • Vulcan in his forge with Jupiter throwing bolts of lightning, Venus in the sky above, symbolising the element fire. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after F. Albani.
  • A laurel branch and a palm branch occupied by a snake and a dove; representing success when cunning (the snake) is allied to simplicity (the dove). Woodcut and letterpress, 1621.
  • A young woman in love clasps her hands against her heart; representing the sense of touch. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds, 1830, after C.-M. Dubufe.
  • Men worship an ass bearing a religious image; alluding to both Aesop's fable of the ass and idol worship in Arianism and contemporary Catholicism. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • A young man returning from the hunt; representing the season spring. Engraving after Joachim von Sandrart I, ca. 1700.
  • Young women representing poetry and drawing, with examples of sculpture, literature, music, painting, and objets d'art. Wood engraving by H. Linton after A. Lumley.
  • A naked man is sitting on a box containing masks and leans on a globe, above him a winged figure blowing the trumpet is surrounded by sleeping, fighting, copulating, masturbating and hard working figures; representing a dream. Engraving by F. van der Steen after N. van Hoey after Michelangelo.
  • The arts of Minerva reduce the power of Time to end life, but death from old age or from plague still exists. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.
  • A woman doing her needlework next to a sleeping infant with an elderly couple in the background feeding chickens and resting, while a farmer is tilling the soil in the far distance; representing the Golden Age. Stipple engraving by G.S. & J.G. Facius after B. West.
  • A male and female warrior dispute over a child lying prone underneath; representing rhetoric. Etching by C. Schut.
  • Men mooring their boats on a quayside in moonlight; representing night. Etching by P.C. Canot after Jean Pillement.
  • King Charles I praying. Engraving by Abraham Hertochs, 1662 after P. Fruytiers after W. Marshall.
  • John Stuart, third Earl of Bute: portrait of him and allegory of his ministry. Stipple engraving by C. Watson, 1805, after A. Ramsay (portrait) and T. Uwins (allegory).
  • Allegory of true and false wisdom. Etching by J.G. Bergmüller.
  • Two children are watching a moth hovering over flames, while Penelope, who is accompanied by a stork, encourages them to turn their attention to the Acropolis; representing wisdom as the only lasting good. Colour lithograph.
  • A harbour in which bales of goods are being traded between two merchants: falsehood and fraud govern the transaction, aided by an untrained clerk; representing the fraudulent use of commercial law. Engraving by H. Goltzius.
  • A monster representing the harm alleged to be done by the Roman Catholic church. Wood engraving.
  • A woman personifying music. Engraving by P. Savorelli and P. Fontana after G.F. Romanelli.
  • A man holding a torch and surrounded by heart-shaped vegetables is standing near a table with dices, pointing to a bunch of dead birds on a hook; representing the month December. Engraving.
  • A man writing; representing the faculty of memory. Engraving, 16--.
  • Men diving into the Fleet ditch, London; representing the activities of political scandal-mongers. Process print after C. Grignion after F. Hayman.
  • A woman plays music to a stag; God condemns Adam and Eve to exile; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
  • A kneeling figure is purified by the sunlight which falls through a magnifying glass held by an angel, representing consideration (meditation). Etching by J. Clark, 1720.
  • A man in the foreground conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic; in the background a female figure representing the world looks at a chemist, who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle; representing the historical transition from alchemy to chemistry. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.