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  • Transporting artillery through a mountain pass, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Lucerne, Switzerland: the Rigi railway (Rigibahn) crossing a mountain pass. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • A packed mule on a mountain pass with a sheep in the background. Chalk lithograph.
  • Mountain laurel or calico bush (Kalmia latifolia): flowering stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1811.
  • Barrington's Mountain Pass, South Africa: a road with a wagon. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • An expedition to the mountain pass at Venasque taken from the lake. Lithograph by V. Petit after himself.
  • Meiring's Poort, South Africa: a mountain pass with horses and wagon. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • A thunderstorm, with rain beating down on travellers in a mountain pass. Engraving by H. C. Shenton after L. Clennell.
  • Antioch, Turkey: remains of an ancient gate on a road leading through a mountain pass to Aleppo. Engraving by M. Picquenot after L.F. Cassas.
  • A woman riding side-saddle on a mule converses with a woman encountered among flocks grazing on a mountain pass. Aquatint and etching after N. Berchem.
  • Soldiers leading shackled prisoners through a narrow pass in the mountains. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man and a woman riding a motorbicycle on a mountain pass, being diverted by Death off the road and into the valley below. Pen and ink drawing, 1929.
  • A homeless family pulling a covered wagon up a steep mountain side in Tyrol; on the path they pass two priests in cassocks, carrying crosses. Wood engraving, 1879, after M. Schmid.
  • Cavalry passing mountain river, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Nepal; herdsmen of the Khumbu, 1986. Three herdsmen stop for refreshments at the Shomare Hotel. The sign above the door of this tea shop reads: 'Wel-come to Shomare Hotel', evidence that westerners pass the door en rout to the high mountains.
  • Fuchsia magellanica Lam. Onagraceae. Hardy fuchsia. Semi-hardy shrub. Distribution: Mountainous regions of Chile and Argentina where they are called 'Chilco' by the indigenous people, the Mapuche. The genus was discovered by Charles Plumier in Hispaniola in 1696/7, and named by him for Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), German Professor of Medicine, whose illustrated herbal, De Historia Stirpium (1542) attempted the identification of the plants in the Classical herbals. It also contained the first accounts of maize, Zea mays, and chilli peppers, Capsicum annuum, then recently introduced from Latin America. He was also the first person to publish an account and woodcuts of foxgloves, Digitalis purpurea and D. lutea. The book contains 500 descriptions and woodcuts of medicinal plants, arranged in alphabetical order, and relied heavily on the De Materia Medica (c. AD 70) of Dioscorides. He was a powerful influence on the herbals of Dodoens, and thence to Gerard, L’Escluse and Henry Lyte. A small quarto edition appeared in 1551, and a two volume facsimile of the 1542 edition with commentary and selected translations from the Latin was published by Stanford Press in 1999. The original woodcuts were passed from printer to printer and continued in use for 232 years (Schinz, 1774). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Landscape at Fatehpur Sikri, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1788.
  • A coach heavily laden with passengers, some on the top, is being driven at speed around a hairpin bend on the St Gothard pass. Electrotype after a wood engraving after R. Doyle.
  • Convent of Great St. Bernard, Switzerland/Italy. Tinted lithograph, 1837.
  • Cavalry marching through a mountain river, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Men building a road through the Malakand Pass, India (subsequently Pakistan). Wood engraving after C. de W. Crookshank and J. Nash, 1895.
  • Convent of the Great St. Bernard, Switzerland/Italy. Coloured etching.
  • Shooting skirmish below mountains, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • St. Gothard Hospital, St. Gothard, Switzerland: Louis-Philippe, Duke of Chartres, travelling incognito, is turned away when seeking help from the hospital. Mezzotint by J. Franklin after H. Vernet.
  • Cavalry drill in the mountains, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Convent of Great St. Bernard, Switzerland/Italy: a rescue dog finding a wounded traveller. Coloured lithograph by A. Cuvillier.
  • China: a litter or palanquin carrying a woman is being transported by two mules across a stream in a rocky pass. Wood engraving by E. Froment after W. Small.
  • The Plague Expedition to Anzob in Russian Turkestan. Photograph album by A.M. Levin, 1899.
  • The Plague Expedition to Anzob in Russian Turkestan. Photograph album by A.M. Levin, 1899.
  • The Plague Expedition to Anzob in Russian Turkestan. Photograph album by A.M. Levin, 1899.