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  • T.H. Parke sucking the poison from William Stairs' wound, inflicted by a poisoned arrow at Abousheeba. Colour etching, ca. 1888.
  • A man walking up stairs. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man walking up stairs. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man walking up stairs. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man walking up stairs. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A little girl crawling up stairs. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A little girl crawling up stairs. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman walking up stairs bearing a bowl. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman walking up stairs bearing a bowl. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • E. Muybridge throwing a disc, ascending stairs, and walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • E. Muybridge throwing a disc, ascending stairs, and walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • E. Muybridge throwing a disc, ascending stairs, and walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Tenement building, Cuba: an interior view of the entrance courtyard, with stairs to upper floors. Photograph, 1902.
  • The ages of man represented in a step scheme; with the divine judgement under the stairs. Coloured etching.
  • University College Hospital: medical staff in an operating theatre which has stairs leading up on either side. Photograph.
  • A man is carrying a sack up the stairs from the underground floor of a flour mill. Mezzotint.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution's building, Euston Road, London: the stairs in the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph.
  • Christians in the catacombs celebrate the communion, threatened by Roman soldiers who are descending the stairs behind them. Lithograph after A. Leloir.
  • A man alights from a sedan chair to meet his companions at the foot of the stairs. Engraving by Brown after Corbould.
  • Hakone, Japan: a tree-lined avenue ending in a flight of stairs to the shrine Hakone-jinja. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1868.
  • General Gordon standing on the stairs of his house about to be speared by dervishes. Etching by H. Dicksee after G. W. Joy.
  • The stairs at York Buildings, the Strand; in the background are the tower of the waterworks and Westminster Bridge. Engraving by I. Taylor, c.1780.
  • A woman descending the stairs of a steep staircase in the gloom falls into the arms of a man who is ascending. Coloured lithograph, 1844.
  • A man returns late at night and removes his shoes before climbing the stairs and his wife is waiting for his return. Etching by John Leech.
  • Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the hallway and stairs at ground floor level, showing the vestibule and chairs. Lithograph by C. Hullmandel [1835] after C. J. Richardson.
  • A man is falling down the stairs of the pulpit watched by the congregation in the church, as he falls he pulls the robe of the priest. Etching after George Cruikshank.
  • The martyrdom of Saturninus, Bishop of Toulouse: Saturninus is stripped to the waist, fastened with his feet to the tail of a bull and dragged down the stairs of a temple. Etching.
  • A cat with a mouse in its mouth is descending the stairs in a corn chamber while rats, mice and weasels are running around three piles of corn; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • King Louis XVI of France bids his farewell to the people of Paris while ascending the stairs to the scaffold where he was guillotined on the 21 January 1793. Aquatint with engraving by C. Silanio after C. Benazech, 1793.
  • A wedding in Brittany: the women of the family adjust the young bride's dress as music is played and the groom and guests wait on the stairs to enter the room. Etching by C.O. Murray after Henry Mosler.