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Vacations

Images

  • A family is about to return from their holiday in a London townhouse. Etching by George Cruikshank after S.K.
  • After a haymaking holiday,  three couples are dancing to a man playing the flute and a woman playing the accordion. Colour wood engraving after R. Caldecott, 1881.
  • Studies of children as found on holiday on a beach. Process print after Starr Wood.
  • Three women holding parasols watch two men cutting hay and one man sharpening his scythe. Colour wood engraving after R. Caldecott, 1881.
  • City break : Amsterdam / Boyz London, KLM in conjunction with Uranian Travel.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    June Johnson, holiday nurse.

    | Date: [1981]
    • Books

    Malaria : it only takes one bite ... / GlaxoSmithKline Travel Health.

    | Date: 2009
    • Pictures

    A man checking a book out of a public library gains the equivalent of going on holiday. Pen and ink drawing by Steve Simpson and Robert D. Dangoor, 2012.

    Dangoor, Robert D., 1953- | Date: [2012] | Reference: 824349i
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    Men and women on a haymaking holiday sit on piles of harvested hay holding rakes and pitchforks, while others load up the haycart. Colour wood engraving after R. Caldecott, 1881.

    Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886. | Date: 1881 | Reference: 33247i
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    After a haymaking holiday, three couples are dancing to a man playing the flute and a woman playing the accordion. Colour wood engraving after R. Caldecott, 1881.

    Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886. | Date: 1881 | Reference: 33248i
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