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El-Amarna, Egypt; washing pots and pans in the Nile

Bathers at the banks of the Jordan river, with Achmet Aga, the governor of Jerusalem, with his guards, looking on. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.

City of Oxford: view from the river. Etching by Letitia Byrne.

Lourdes and Gave-de-Pau, Hautes Pyrénées, France: peasants fishing with the castle in the background. Lithograph, 1821, after M. Colston.

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newport, Kentucky: view from the river. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1832, after G. Wall.

Bagrami pavilion, east of Kabul.

Crimean War: showing the strait Bosphorus and the hospital at Scutari, Turkey. Process print.

Schuylkill Water Works, Philadelphia: panoramic view with the river. Coloured engraving by J.C. Armytage after W.H. Bartlett.

Facts respecting the drainage of London and the pollution of the Thames / from the reminiscences of an octogenarian, medical officer, in retirement.

Geography: Niagara Falls, seen from a distance. Coloured lithograph, ca.1890.

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Bagrami pavilion, east of Kabul.

Crimean War: showing the strait Bosphorus and the hospital at Scutari, Turkey. Process print.

Schuylkill Water Works, Philadelphia: panoramic view with the river. Coloured engraving by J.C. Armytage after W.H. Bartlett.

Facts respecting the drainage of London and the pollution of the Thames / from the reminiscences of an octogenarian, medical officer, in retirement.

Geography: Niagara Falls, seen from a distance. Coloured lithograph, ca.1890.