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  • The British Museum: drinking fountains under the portico, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1860.
  • First London drinking fountain, 1858
  • Animals drinking from a fountain. Etching by J. van den Hecke.
  • Maidstone Drinking Fountain, Maidstone, Kent. Wood engraving by J.M. Williams, 1862.
  • Hydraulics: three devices, including a pump, a clock, and a drinking fountain. Woodcut, 1659.
  • Fontaine St-Nicodeme. A child drinking water from the fountain out of the brim of a hat.
  • A married woman attending a health resort as a cover for a love-affair does not drink the curative water but pours it back into the basin of a fountain. Colour lithograph, 1914.
  • Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.
  • James Bruce of Kinnaird, having reached a fountain at Gisha (Abyssinia) regarded as the source of the Nile, uses a coconut to drink the water to the health of King George III and Empress Catherine the Great. Engraving by J. Gillray, 1793, after R.M. Paye.
  • Great Malvern, Worcestershire: Dr. Wilson's water cure establishment. Line engraving by E. Goodall after H. Lamb.
  • Great Malvern, Worcestershire: Dr. Wilson's water cure establishment. Line engraving by E. Goodall after H. Lamb.
  • Jerusalem: a coffee-house. Coloured lithograph by C.F.H. Werner, 1868.
  • Canary Islanders circling a fountain tree (Spathodea campanulata) and filling their urns with the water it secretes. Wood-engraving, ca. 1748.
  • Safe activities in which the AIDS virus is not transmitted including top left shaking hands to blood donation bottom right with subtitles to diagrams in French; advertisement by CRAM, [La Caisse Régionale d'assurance Maladie de Bourgogne Franche-Comté]. Colour lithograph.
  • Cana of Galilee, Israel: an ancient water fountain in use. Engraving by V. Pillement, J.L.C. Pauquet and F.N.B. Dequevauviller after L.F. Cassas.
  • Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.
  • Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.
  • A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • The fountain of youth. Woodcut by H. Beham, ca. 1536.
  • The fountain of youth. Woodcut by H. Beham, ca. 1536.
  • The fountain of youth. Woodcut by H. Beham, ca. 1536.
  • The fountain of youth. Woodcut by H. Beham, ca. 1536.
  • Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo Fracastoro) shows the shepherd Syphilus and the hunter Ilceus a statue of Venus to warn them against the danger of infection with syphilis. Engraving by Jan Sadeler I, 1588/1595, after Christoph Schwartz.