Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Africa. Coloured wood engraving by H. Hall after H.M. Stanley, ca.1872.

An incantatory ceremony in a village watched by men with spears. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, ca. 1920.

Krakatoa: plantain trees (Musa x paradisiaca) and coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in a forest clearing, with native man and his hut. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.

A log cabin, which housed the first printing press at the head of Lake Superior. Process print after a lithograph of 1855.

South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.

Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.

A shaman or medicine man from the Lower Congo. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.

Boer War: a dentist outside his hut at a military hospital. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Hall-Edwards.

A Zulu medicine man or shaman performing a ritual to fend off a hailstorm, South Africa. Halftone after Trappist Mission, Natal.

A Swazi medicine man or shaman performing a ritual in front of his tribe. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.

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World War One: a lone man digs in a dilapidated graveyard. Colour chalk drawing with pencil, c. 1914.

1 drawing : watercolour ; image 21.4 x 38.5 cm

A wedding in a north African village. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.

<p>The dragtoe tree depicted here is the sacred tree of a Banian saint, as is described in Bruin's book listed above.</p>

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 28.5 x 17.5 cm

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Boer War: a dentist outside his hut at a military hospital. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Hall-Edwards.

World War One: a lone man digs in a dilapidated graveyard. Colour chalk drawing with pencil, c. 1914.

A wedding in a north African village. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.

Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.

Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.

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Huts

Images

Works

Boer War: a dentist outside his hut at a military hospital. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Hall-Edwards.

World War One: a lone man digs in a dilapidated graveyard. Colour chalk drawing with pencil, c. 1914.

A wedding in a north African village. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, c. 1920.

Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.

Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.

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