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Lamps

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  • Boer War: the reading-room at the field hospital, Wynberg, South Africa. Halftone, 1900, after R. Thomas.
  • Boer War: a full military hospital ward housed in a church in Ladysmith, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after H. Paget after H. McCormick.
  • Crimean War: Florence Nightingale with her lamp at a patient's bedside. Colour lithograph, 1891, after H. Rae.
  • Lampas: or, descriptions of some mechanical improvements of lamps & waterpoises. Together with some other physical and mechanical discoveries / Made by Robert Hooke.
  • An anatomical dissection in an interior in Guadalupe. Gouache attributed to F. J. Blanco Juste, c. 1934.
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    Lampas: or, descriptions of some mechanical improvements of lamps & waterpoises. Together with some other physical and mechanical discoveries / Made by Robert Hooke.

    Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703. | Date: 1677
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    An anatomical dissection in an interior in Guadalupe. Gouache attributed to F. J. Blanco Juste, c. 1934.

    Blanco Juste, Francisco J. (Francisco Javier), 1882- | Date: 1934 | Reference: 24571i
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    Boer War: a full military hospital ward housed in a church in Ladysmith, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after H. Paget after H. McCormick.

    McCormick, H., active 1900. | Date: 1900 | Reference: 23515i
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    A female figure representing science trimming the lamp of life. Engraving by A. R. Freebairn, 1849, after W. Wyon.

    Wyon, William, 1795-1851. | Date: 1849 | Reference: 26215i
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    A standing woman holding a lamp, with water flowing at her feet, perhaps representing Nature healing at German spas. Colour lithograph after Jupp Wiertz.

    Wiertz, Jupp, 1881-1939. | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 24534i
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