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  • Original Wilson Screw-barrel Microscope signed "I.W". Made in ivory
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes; Carthaginian soldiers hammer more spikes into the barrel and prepare to close the lid. Etching by S. Rosa.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes with soldiers fitting more nails on the barrel and closing the lid. Line engraving after Giulio Romano, 1560.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes with soldiers fitting more nails on the barrel and closing the lid. Line engraving after Giulio Romano, 1560.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes with soldiers fitting more nails on the barrel and closing the lid. Line engraving after Giulio Romano, 1560.
  • Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes with soldiers fitting more nails on the barrel and closing the lid. Line engraving after Giulio Romano, 1560.
  • Well made out of a barrel in Bathurst, Gambia. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • A woman is sitting in a large barrel mending stockings. Coloured etching.
  • A man self-administering hydrotherapy, sitting outside in a barrel. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man putting a barrel on his shoulder. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man putting a barrel on his shoulder. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman putting a barrel on her shoulder. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman putting a barrel on her shoulder. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A mosquito-proof water barrel with a tap; residents in the background. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • A man playing a barrel organ. Wood engraving by H. Kaeseberg after L. Knaus.
  • Silver Nutmeg Graters. 2 egg-shaped, one with fishkin case, and ine barrel-shaped.
  • A young man in a wooden barrel, with his arms hanging over the edge. Photograph.
  • A sailor sitting on a barrel and smoking. Reproduction of a woodcut, early 19th century.
  • A brewer pouring beer into a barrel; behind, the operations of brewing. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • The vintage: a man wheeling a barrel past a woman and children carrying grapes. Coloured engraving.
  • A very large and ornate wine barrel, the Heidelberg Tun, being admired by fashionable visitors. Engraving, c. 1700.
  • A very large and ornate wine barrel, the Heidelberg Tun, being admired by fashionable visitors. Engraving, c. 1700.
  • A very large and ornate wine barrel, the Heidelberg Tun, being admired by fashionable visitors. Engraving, c. 1700.
  • Two men playing backgammon on a barrel-table as others watch and smoke. Mezzotint after E. van Heemskirk.
  • Three men sit smoking and drinking at a barrel-table. Engraving by J. Suyderhof, 16--, after A. Brouwer.
  • A water-carrier carrying his barrel of water, with glasses and a jug on a tray. Coloured lithograph.
  • Four men sit indoors smoking round a barrel-table, others drink by the fireplace. Lithograph after D. Teniers (?).
  • Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, London: a big gun barrel being turned on a lathe. Lithograph by G. Clausen, 1917.
  • A huntsman is thrown backwards as the barrel of his rifle explodes. Coloured lithograph by A. Strassgschwandtner after himself, ca. 1860.
  • Three men round a barrel drinking, smoking and conversing. Engraving by F. Basan, mid 18th century, after I. van Ostade.