A carriage or bathing machine drawn by a sea monster is driven below cliffs: the animal inside has its tail caught in one of the rear wheels; the coachmen and two other passengers speak. Soft-ground etching.

The road entering Bath from the south side of the bridge. Steel engraving by J.B. Allen, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.

Farm carts, and a weighing device. Engraving by Mutlow.

The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles after L. P. Boitard, 1753.

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

The blind school, Southwark. Coloured engraving by R. Acon, 1829, after T. H. Shepherd.

A well groomed itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a smart carriage. Steel engraving by K. Schüler (?) after F. Piloty.

Design for museums at south Kensington. Wood engraving by J. S. Heaviside after B. Sly after R. Kerr, 1864.

Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.

Agriculture: peasants, ploughs and carts of Sardinia. Coloured engraving by A.J. Lallemand after Gonin after Cominotti.

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St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, seen from the south with the Palace of Westminster in the background. Wood engraving by T. Sulman.

1 print : line engraving ; image 6.3 x 33.8 cm

Panoramic view of Buxton with a key to the sights. Line engraving by Newman & Co.

<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.

A horse-drawn military ambulance, c. 1850, with one patient being carried on a stretcher. Coloured pencil drawing.

<p>The School for the Indigent Blind was rebuilt in 1834 in the then fashionable neo-Gothic style</p>

The blind school, Southwark. Engraving.

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St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, seen from the south with the Palace of Westminster in the background. Wood engraving by T. Sulman.

Panoramic view of Buxton with a key to the sights. Line engraving by Newman & Co.

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.

A horse-drawn military ambulance, c. 1850, with one patient being carried on a stretcher. Coloured pencil drawing.

The blind school, Southwark. Engraving.

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Carriages and carts

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St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, seen from the south with the Palace of Westminster in the background. Wood engraving by T. Sulman.

Panoramic view of Buxton with a key to the sights. Line engraving by Newman & Co.

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.

A horse-drawn military ambulance, c. 1850, with one patient being carried on a stretcher. Coloured pencil drawing.

The blind school, Southwark. Engraving.

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