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  • Egyptian wall relief, taken 1989
  • Egyptian wall relief, taken 1989
  • Egyptian wall relief, taken 1989
  • Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: a Chinese residential quarter. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: a Chinese residential quarter. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: a Chinese residential quarter. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Qiongzhou (Haikou) Harbour, Hainan Island, China: a fort. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
  • Qiongzhou (Haikou) Harbour, Hainan Island, China: a fort. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
  • A storm of thunder and lightning, rain, wind and floods threaten an ancient town on the sea-coast; representing conflict. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Nanking, Kiangsu province, China: stone warriors at the tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming emperor. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Nanking, Kiangsu province, China: stone warriors at the tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming emperor. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Tianjin (Tientsin), China: exterior of Notre Dame des Victoires Cathedral. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Tianjin (Tientsin), China: exterior of Notre Dame des Victoires Cathedral. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. Engraving.
  • Saint Venantius. Coloured etching.
  • Tiles painted with places familiar to Tunisian visitors and immigrants to France. Colour lithograph by A. Bellavita for the Féderation des Tunisiens pour une Citoyenneté des Deux Rives.
  • A fox jumps out of a well by climbing on the horns of a goat inside; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching.
  • Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.
  • Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.
  • Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.
  • Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.
  • Kowloon, Hong Kong: five pirates awaiting beheading, while Chinese soldiers and dignitaries line up behind. Photograph, 1891.
  • A prospect of the city of Rome from Janiculum. Etching by G. Vasi and G. Piranesi, 1765.
  • A prospect of the city of Rome from Janiculum. Etching by G. Vasi and G. Piranesi, 1765.
  • A prospect of the city of Rome from Janiculum. Etching by G. Vasi and G. Piranesi, 1765.
  • Mary Squires the fortune teller foretells the future to Sir John Hill: she indicates that she has support from the Lord Mayor of London. Etching, 1753.