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  • An aqueduct: in the foreground a fountain; to the right a section of a double Roman aqueduct. Lithograph by G. E. Madeley.
  • Boer War: people queueing to fill buckets from a well in the women's laager in Mafeking (Mahikeng), South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after W. Weekes.
  • Aqueduct, Lisbon, Portugal: overlooking the Valley of Alcantra. Line engraving, 1751.
  • Sadler's Wells Theatre, with the New River running beside. Engraving.
  • A water conduit, St. Mary's, Lincoln, England. Tinted lithograph by F. Bedford.
  • South Gate House, New Reservoir, New York. Coloured lithograph by A. Brown & Co., 1862.
  • The Dripping Well, Hastings, Sussex. Line engraving, 1856.
  • St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales. Line engraving.
  • Poor sanitary conditions in London in 1862: four scenes. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin, 1862.
  • Sir Hugh Myddelton. Stipple engraving by J. Cochran, 1831, after C. Johnson, 1632.
  • Water-wheel at London Bridge, for supplying water from the Thames to the City of London. Engraving by B. Cole.
  • St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales: interior of the cloisters. Line engraving by W. Angus, 1813.
  • St Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales. Line engraving by Metcalf.
  • The interior of a room with steam and cold water pipes at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.
  • The Aqua Virgo aqueduct, taking water from the Alban hills to the centre of the Rome: elevation and plan of the aqueduct, and details of the lead piping. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1762.
  • Aqueduct, Spoleto, Italy: panoramic view. Engraving.
  • St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales: exterior. Line engraving by Newman & Co.
  • A water pump near Bishopsgate Street. Etching, 1791.
  • Sir Hugh Myddelton's conduit head near Sadler's Wells, London. Engraving, perhaps after T. H. Shepherd?.
  • A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
  • The conduit at Bayswater, London. Engraving, 1798, after R. Bolton.
  • India: ruins of the 'Moree bastion' near Delhi. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.
  • St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales. Lithograph.
  • A girl filling a bucket at a water-outlet, whle a boy is opening up a fish (to clean it?). Soft ground etching by W.H. Pyne, 1813.
  • Aqueduct, Lisbon, Portugal: panoramic view. Coloured aquatint.
  • The conduit at Bayswater. Engraving by S. Sparrow, 1796, after E. Dayes.
  • Aqueduct, near Pyrgos, Greece or Turkey. Etching by R. Wallis after W.H. Bartlett.
  • St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales. Line engraving by W. Wallis.
  • A new well, fitted with a Dragor water pump, contrasted with an old well using a bucket on a winch; advertising Dragor water pumps. Colour lithograph by Jelb, 1935.
  • Sadler's Wells and other places of resort beside the New River: two workmen digging a trench for water-pipes in the foreground. Etching by J. Swaine after himself, 1795.