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St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Engraving after T. H. Shepherd.

Foochow (Fuzhou), Fukien province, China: a church. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.

A vicar using sign language to the congregation at a service at a deaf and dumb church. Wood engraving after A.S. Hartick (?).

Architecture: various types of roof truss. Engraving by A. Bell.

Christ's Hospital, London: the exterior, seen from Newgate Street. Engraving.

The funeral ceremony of Charles Darwin at Westminster Abbey, 26 April 1882. Wood engraving.

Two priests and their server follow a funeral procession carrying an open coffin into a church. Etching by J. Pesne after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.

The giants wedding.

Four buildings in Chelsea: the Royal Hospital, St Luke's Church, the Old Church, and the Royal Military Asylum. Coloured lithographs.

Boer War: a full military hospital ward housed in a church in Ladysmith, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after H. Paget after H. McCormick.

Death and dying ephemera. Box 2.

On hearing the bells chime for a funeral, very late at night / W.L.

<p>Presumably an episode in the Napoleonic Wars, of which Lecomte made many depictions. In the background is a large city</p>

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

1 print : line engraving ; image 5.4 x 9.8 cm

St. John's Church, Margate, Kent. Line engraving.

<p>This church was originally founded near the Tower of London in 1148. With the building of St Katharine's dock in 1825, the church moved to Regent's Park. "[Ambrose] Poynter was chiefly an architect of churches and country houses. His best-known London work is the Tudor Gothic-style hospital and chapel of St Katharine in Regent's Park (1827)"--Oxford dictionary of national biography. During the first World War Queen Alexandra granted the church to her Danish countrymen</p>

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 22.8 x 43.5 cm

St Katharine's Hospital, Regent's Park, London: seen from the road. Coloured aquatint by R.G. Reeve, 1827, after A. Poynter.

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 12.6 x 20.6 cm

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Coloured aquatint after T. H. Shepherd, 1815.

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On hearing the bells chime for a funeral, very late at night / W.L.

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

St. John's Church, Margate, Kent. Line engraving.

St Katharine's Hospital, Regent's Park, London: seen from the road. Coloured aquatint by R.G. Reeve, 1827, after A. Poynter.

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Coloured aquatint after T. H. Shepherd, 1815.

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On hearing the bells chime for a funeral, very late at night / W.L.

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

St. John's Church, Margate, Kent. Line engraving.

St Katharine's Hospital, Regent's Park, London: seen from the road. Coloured aquatint by R.G. Reeve, 1827, after A. Poynter.

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Coloured aquatint after T. H. Shepherd, 1815.

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