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  • A Turkish army taking a town fortification mutilating, flaying and disembowelling their enemies behind the lines. Etching.
  • India : a gathering of Hindu ascetics (sadhus) at a religious festival: in the background, the Union flag flies over a British military fortification. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Earthquake damage to fortifications, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
  • Malta: view towards Valletta from the Cotonera fortifications. Etching by A. Benoist after J. Goupy, c. 1725.
  • Malta: view towards Valletta from the Cotonera fortifications. Etching by A. Benoist after J. Goupy, c. 1725.
  • Earthquake damage to fortifications, with trees, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
  • Earthquake damage to fortifications, with waterway, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
  • Singapore: officers and men of the Royal Engineers employed in building fortifications. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1878.
  • Earthquake damage to fortifications, with snow-covered mountains, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
  • Lucknow, India: the military mess house surrounded by fortifications after the Indian Rebellion. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
  • Earthquake damage to fortifications, seen from the west, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
  • Soldiers dismembering, torturing and killing civilians outside town fortifications, probably during a siege. Etching by R. de Hooghe [?].
  • Astrakhan: the harbour and the fortifications as well as an indigenous fish and a heron. Etching by B. M.
  • Earthquake damage to fortifications, with three figures in the foreground, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
  • A mass execution outside the town fortifications while a Christian procession takes place within the town walls. Etching [by Romeyn de Hooghe].
  • The body of an old man is laid out naked in state outside the wooden fortifications of a town and mocked and insulted by a mob lighting a bonfire. Etching [by Romeyn de Hooghe].
  • The bombardment and capture of Island 'Number Ten' on the Mississippi River, April 7th 1862: Federal gunboats and mortar boats are shown firing at the Confederate fortifications on the island. Colour lithograph, 1862.
  • Sarawak: exterior view of the Baram Fort. Photograph.
  • Sarawak: interior of the Baram Fort. Photograph.
  • Island of Deshima, Dutch East India Company
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.
  • A ruler enthroned defending a fortress from the invading British. Gouache drawing.
  • Crimean War: panoramic view of the interior of Fort Nicholas. Tinted lithograph by E. Walker, 1856, after W. Simpson.
  • Men sitting to smoke by the citadel of Jerusalem. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe after D. Roberts, 1841.
  • Crimean War: panoramic view of the interior of Fort Nicholas. Tinted lithograph after W. Simpson.
  • The young Samson excels on the battlefield. Etching by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • A Russian nobleman riding with his servant and smoking a hooka. Coloured lithograph by D. Dighton, c. 1820, after A. Orlowski.
  • The Bastille, Paris. Line engraving by J.F. Borgnet after J.M. Gudin (?).
  • Interior view of the second North Fort of Taku
  • A doum palm tree (Hyphaene thebaica) in Nubia sheltering three people. Wood engraving by Faguet, c. 1867.