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  • Horsemen assembled outside the city walls at Kabul, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Rhodes: a gateway in the old walls of the city. Photograph, 1931.
  • Men sitting or lying on the hillside outside the walls of a city, playing cards. Engraving after P. van Laer (?).
  • Janina, Albania (subsequently Greece): the town seen through a gap in the city walls. Colour lithograph by R. Carrick after G.D. Beresford, 1855.
  • Antioch, Turkey: remains of the old walls of the city, following the slope of a mountain. Engraving by J.B. Liénard after L.F. Cassas.
  • Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.
  • An episode in the revolutionary war in China, 1911: a pitched battle between the imperial army (left) and the revolutionary army (right), outside the walls of a fortified city. Chromolithograph by T. Miyano.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a ward for male patients with case-notes clipped to wall above beds. Photograph, ca. 1885/1898.
  • Beijing, China: large building on the city wall: north and east corner: panoramic view: section two. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.
  • Beijing, China: Chinese army guns on the city wall, after capture by the English and French armies during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.
  • Walled city with lone horseman, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • People chatting against a wall bearing graffiti of the skeletal figure of death reaching out to them with clawed hands; an advertisement for the New York City Department of Health AIDS Information helpline. Colour lithograph by Susan Wilcox.
  • A Chinese walled city: plan. Painting by a Chinese artist.
  • Map of Huoqing zhou, in Lijiang Prefecture, Yunnan Provonce. The Poyi live in the Huoqing area. The pictorial map shows the walled city in the centre. The places in the surroundings are tagged by their Chinese names.
  • Carcassonne, France: the walled city and bridge over the Aude river; women wash laundry on the river bank and a man shovels grit into a narrow boat. Process print by Bauer, Marchet & C.ie after a photograph.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with part of London Wall in the foreground, and a muck-raker scraping at the cobblestones. Etching by J. T. Smith, 1814, after himself, June 1812.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with part of London Wall in the foreground, and a muck-raker scraping at the cobblestones. Etching by J. T. Smith, 1814, after himself, June 1812.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • Samson carries the gates of Gaza out of the city. Woodcut.
  • Samson carries the gates of Gaza up to the mount of Hebron. Etching by J. Taylor after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • The Virgin of Mercy responding to the intercessions of saints by protecting people from arrows symbolising disease; the Devil rules below, where plague attacks the land. Lithograph after L. Dottorini after Benedetto Bonfigli, 1464 (?).
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Etching by A. Tardieu after Guilbaut.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by J. Dambrun, 1793, after J.M. Moreau.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by W.H. Mote, 1846, after J. Franklin after J.F. Overbeck.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Wood engraving by F. Obermann.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Etching by A. Walker after J-B. Jouvenet.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving, c. 17th century.
  • The aged Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary, meets Joachim by the Golden Gate at Jerusalem. Engraving by H. Wierix.