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  • A mother and three children in a slum dwelling.
  • Nepal: Sunwar people outside a dwelling. Photograph by Clarence Comyn Taylor, ca. 1860.
  • An alchemist with his family in their dim dwelling, work bellows at his furnace.
  • Ascetics preparing and smoking opium outside a rural dwelling in India. Gouache painting by Kavala, 18--.
  • Ascetics preparing and smoking opium outside a rural dwelling in India. Gouache painting by Kavala, 18--.
  • The interior of a winter dwelling in Kamchatka. Engraving by W. Sharp, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Ascetics preparing and smoking opium outside a rural dwelling in India. Gouache painting by Kavala, 18--.
  • Four summer houses and a winter dwelling in Kamchatka. Engraving by S. Smith, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Model Dwelling in the Mall, Kensington. Built for gentle women of limited means, governesses, artists and skilled artisans.
  • Nile-dwelling reptile: two figures, the lower showing the reptile's skeleton. Coloured lithograph by Mme. Nobling after J.J. Rifaud, 1830.
  • Desert-dwelling reptile from Egypt: two figures, the lower showing the reptile's skeleton. Coloured lithograph by Ch. Normand after J.J. Rifaud, 1830.
  • Fossilized skeleton of a water-dwelling dinosaur, with an outline drawing below, showing the vertebrae at life-size. Lithograph by G. Scharf, 18--.
  • An alchemist with his family in their dim dwelling, working a bellows at his furnace. Engraving by J.C. Bentley after A. van Ostade, 1661.
  • The salon at the Hotel de Ville, Paris, surrounded by vignettes showing various other types of dwelling. Coloured lithograph by P.A. Belin and C. Bethmont, 1852.
  • A couple sit in a slum dwelling playing a card game; the man is drinking from a tankard and washing is hanging from a line stretched across the room. Wood engraving by E. Landells after H.K. Browne.
  • A catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ... at her late dwelling-house, in Privy-garden, Whitehall / [by the Rev. J. Lightfoot].
  • The mahatmya of the second adhyaya. The bottom third of the painting depicts the frame story of Devasusara of Purana. The top two-thirds illustrate the embedded story of Gadia the goatherd: one of his goats chases away a lion, the ascetic Bala explains the meaning of the events, and Gadia and his animals ascend to Visnu's celestial dwelling Vaikuntha in their divine bodies
  • The mahatmya of the second adhyaya. The bottom third of the painting depicts the frame story of Devasusara of Purana. The top two-thirds illustrate the embedded story of Gadia the goatherd: one of his goats chases away a lion, the ascetic Bala explains the meaning of the events, and Gadia and his animals ascend to Vishnu's celestial dwelling Vaikuntha in their divine bodies
  • Broch of Mousa, Scotland.
  • Five views of Skara Brae Bronze Age village, Orkney.
  • Malaya: a magistrate's house located by a Malay beach. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1881.
  • 4 views of hut-circles at Valtos, Uig, Lewis, Broch Age.
  • Archaeology: famous houses of France. Mixed method engraving after A.M. Perrot.
  • Palmerston Buildings, City Garden-Row, City-Road.
  • Chukchi people and housing encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by D. Lerpiniere, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Singapore: a large bungalow for British officers with tropical plants in the garden. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1880.
  • Singapore: a large bungalow with people having drinks in the garden around a large traveller's palm (Ravenala madagascariensis) Photograph by J. Taylor, 1881.
  • A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.
  • Malaya: houses of inhabitants on Penang Island. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1881.
  • The house and birthplace of Sir Humphry Davy in Penzance, Cornwall. Pencil drawing.