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Water-pipes

Images

  • A factory for earthenware, surrounded by vignettes showing the use of clay products. Lithograph by P.A. Belin and C. Bethmont.
  • The labelled interior of a boiler room at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.
  • A factory for earthenware, surrounded by vignettes showing the use of clay products. Lithograph by P.A. Belin and C. Bethmont.
  • Indian agriculture: drawing water for crops. Gouache drawing.
  • Two workmen unearthing large wooden pipes dating from 1676, excavated at Marylebone Road, London. Photograph, 1937.
  • A water conduit, St. Mary's, Lincoln, England. Tinted lithograph by F. Bedford.
  • The interior of a room with steam and cold water pipes at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.
  • Malhar Rao Holker. Coloured lithograph.
  • Sadler's Wells and other places of resort beside the New River: two workmen digging a trench for water-pipes in the foreground. Etching by J. Swaine after himself, 1795.
  • A tap running water; representing the benefits of mains water supply in France. Colour lithograph after A. Brunyer, 193- (?).
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Catalogue

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    Two workmen unearthing large wooden pipes dating from 1676, excavated at Marylebone Road, London. Photograph, 1937.

    | Date: [1937] | Reference: 582190i
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    Indian agriculture: drawing water for crops. Gouache drawing.

    | Reference: 31974i
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    A tap running water; representing the benefits of mains water supply in France. Colour lithograph after A. Brunyer, 193- (?).

    Brunyer, Abel, 1888- | Date: [between 1930 and 1939?] | Reference: 675800i
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    A holy man trying to restrain two other reluctant holy men from smoking their hookahs. Watercolour drawing.

    | Reference: 27918i
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    On the action of water upon lead pipes. Being a translation from the French of M. Belgrand. With introductory remarks / by W. Sedgwick Saunders.

    Saunders, W. Sedgwick (William Sedgwick), 1824-1901. | Date: 1881
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