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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.

Singapore: evening view of the Johore River. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.

Crimean War: cityscape view showing the barracks and hospital at Scutari, Turkey. Wood engraving.

Page 113: Krishna playing his flute to the cows and Radha who is immersed in the river, while an old man smoking a hookah observes. Watercolour drawing.

The baths and mineral springs, Ems, West Germany. Line engraving by J. Willis after W. Tombleson.

St Bernard's Well, Edinburgh, Scotland. Coloured line engraving by W. Poole.

The Hôtel Dieu, Paris: as seen from Pont St. Michel and the river. Etching by J. Huguenet after A. Testard.

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.

A road by a river outside a town: a distraught woman lying by the side of a road is recognized by a man who grasps her by the wrist. Engraving by W. Woollett.

Samuel Dale. Line engraving by Rivers, 1812.

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Samuel Dale. Line engraving by Rivers, 1812.