Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search our stories, images and catalogue
Library account
Concept

Building

We’re working to improve the information on this page. You can join our user panel or submit an idea that would help you use our website.

Images

  • Architecture: tools, derricks, and windlasses. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • A multiple-way joint of timber and iron for barrack building. Engraving by G. Aikman after W. Ferrier.
  • Architecture: the geometry of a curved staircase. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Architecture: two composite roof trusses. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Architecture: various roof trusses. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Civil engineering: the Conway box girder bridge, viewed from entrance level. Coloured lithograph by G. Hawkins after himself.
  • George Shaw (Builders) Ltd : directors G.R. Shaw, M. Shaw : 3, Wigmore Place, London, W.1...
  • Architecture: diagrammatic roof trusses. Engraving [after S. H. Brooks?], 1850.
  • Three pictures from a missionary enterprise on the Upper Zambesia: an African chief smoking; a missionary's wife quarters; Africans building a church. Wood-engravings.
  • Architecture: a dog-leg staircase and details. Engraving by A. Bell.
All images (62)

Catalogue

  • view Architecture: various ways of cutting materials to cover a roof. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Architecture: various ways of cutting materials to cover a roof. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.

    | Date: 2 January 1848 | Reference: 44273i
    • Books

    Kahncrete engineering. Reinforced concrete in hospital buildings / [edited by E. Temple Orme].

    | Date: 1935
  • view Ryk Tulbagh : governor at the Cape, 1751-1771 / Union-Castle Line.
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Ryk Tulbagh : governor at the Cape, 1751-1771 / Union-Castle Line.

    | Date: 1959
  • view Civil engineering: a chart of the Menai straits, showing the building of the box girder bridge. Lithograph after E. Clark, 1849.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Civil engineering: a chart of the Menai straits, showing the building of the box girder bridge. Lithograph after E. Clark, 1849.

    Clark, Edwin, 1814-1894 | Date: 1849 | Reference: 44460i
    • Pictures

    Architecture: tessellated ceilings, roof timbers, and coffers. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].

    Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804. | Reference: 44137i
All works (94)

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here
  • Accessibility

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    closed
  • Library
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Modern slavery statement
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
SoundCloud
YouTube
Tripadvisor

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence