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  • A young woman saying she prefers a young man who does not smoke. Lithograph for Stivoro (Stichting Volksgezondheid en Roken), ca. 2000.
  • A house on stilts formed by collecting tins; representing fundraising for a house for the Netherlands Red Cross. Colour lithograph, 197- (?).
  • The words 'AIDS' splattered in black ink representing an advertisement for the free AIDS information line in the Netherlands. Colour lithograph.
  • A Dutch country tavern with six men drinking and smoking at a table and others by the bar. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1836, after A. van Ostade, 1663.
  • James II and Louis XIV and their allies portrayed as inmates of a lunatic asylum. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688.
  • A drunk cyclist who has driven into a lamp-post exclaims that the lamp-post had suddenly appeared there; a traffic warden replies sarcastically that the lamp post was drunk. Colour lithograph after H. de Kort for Veilig Verkeer Nederland, ca. 1996.
  • An autopsy on an investor in the Dutch speculation boom of 1720 reveals that he had died of an excess of air, representing lack of value in the shares. Etching, 1720.
  • A crowd gathered around a mountebank who points to a banner illustrating various methods of execution; to the left stands a rat-catcher who holds a long stick with a cage on top of it from which rats dangle. Etching by C.W.E. Dietrich, 1740, after A. van Ostade.
  • Six men appear puzzled and have their hands raised to their faces. Woodcut and letterpress.
  • King Louis XIV in bed, having been told that the rumour of King William III's death was untrue, is treated by physicians and surgeons representing different nations. Etching by P. Bouttats., c. 1690.
  • A dish of garnish after a cat has removed a cooked fish from the centre of it, leaving a fish-shaped gap; representing fish as a subsitute for meat that is healthy for the heart. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Hartstichting, ca. 2000.
  • A young man saying he prefers a young woman who does not smoke. Lithograph for Stivoro (Stichting Volksgezondheid en Roken), ca. 2000.
  • A fiddler plays in a tavern with a family drinking at one table and others in the background. Engraving by Ryland after R. Brakenburg.
  • A clog-carver working in a daylight-basement with a window on to the street; another man sits on a stool in the street talking to him while smoking a pipe; a dog sleeps on the roof over the window. Etching by Adriaen van Ostade.
  • An Indonesian child being examined with a stethoscope; representing support for the healthcare work of Memisa in Indonesia, recommended by the actor Willem Nijholt. Colour lithograph for Memisa, ca. 199-.
  • A mounted man looks on while a shepherd girl milks a ewe. Aquatint by C. Apostool after K. du Jardin.
  • A spectacles vendor showing his wares to an old woman on her doorstep. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. van Ostade.
  • Erna, a woman who thinks she does not need to have safe sex because "this time it was real love"; an advertisement for safe sex. Lithograph.
  • A skeleton clutching a bottle labelled "Alcoholisme"; advertising an exhibition on alcohol abuse in the Hague, 1911. Lithograph, 1911, after F.M.
  • A psychoanalyst on his couch analysing himself in a mirror; with statistics of mental illness in the Netherlands for 1992. Lithograph for the Nederlands centrum Geestelijke volksgezondheid, 1994.
  • Six questions about drug abuse and six answers. Lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A Dutch landscape: fields, a farmer in an oxcart, and, in the centre foreground, a dead tree. Etching by W. Baillie, 1760.
  • An old shoemaker is stitching a boot as a young woman leans over him holding a jug in her hand. Engraving by P. Duflos, 1778 after D. van Tol.
  • Dutch men, women and children are amusing themselves by playing kolf on ice and other recreations. Engraving by Roberts after Vanloo.
  • A man trying to get inside the mind of his autistic son; advertising the film "Sommer" by Philip Gröning. Lithograph, ca. 198- (?).
  • A man sits on a low box with smoking pipe and tankard in hand; others in the room smoke and drink. Engraving by T. Major, 1745, after D. Teniers.
  • A young woman holding an Amsterdam newspaper looks away in contemplation. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 17--, after G. ter Borch.
  • Six questions about drug abuse and six answers. Lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Six questions about drug abuse and six answers. Lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A young woman washing her hands in water poured from a jug by a maid; behind are a bed and a table. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl after G. Ter Borch (Terborch).