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  • Civil engineering: diagrams for setting-out a sundial. Engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
  • Clocks: an elaborately-cased mantel clock, with the figure of a dairymaid, and various bases (above). Coloured lithograph, [c.1875?].
  • Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Clocks: mechanism of a pocket watch. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1810.
  • Hares recovering after surviving a hunt, one of them taking another's pulse. Lithograph by WBT, 1859.
  • Clock and Watchmakers Asylum, Colney Hatch, Southgate, Middlesex: panoramic view. Coloured wood engraving by J. Knight.
  • The Orphan Hospital, Dean. Line engraving by W.H. Lizars after W. Banks.
  • Royal Infirmary, Glasgow: demolition of the Lister Ward. Etching by W.C. Applebey, 1924.
  • Hydraulics: three devices, including a pump, a clock, and a drinking fountain. Woodcut, 1659.
  • Clocks: a watch-maker seated at his workbench with a long-case and a bracket clock behind him, diagrams of movements above his head. Engraving, 1748.
  • Exeter College, Oxford: main gate and clock. Process print after V.H. Bailey, 1902.
  • Fentazin is the ideal tranquiliser for agitation in older patients : French lyre clock c. 1780.
  • Clocks: an escapement mechanism (top), and a pendulum (below). Engraving by E. Kennion after C. Varley.
  • Clocks: a striking mechanism. Engraving by S. Porter after C. Varley.
  • Clocks: side elevation of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Defehrt [after G. d'Heuland].
  • Clocks: a striking mechanism. Engraving by J. B. Taylor after C. Varley.
  • Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, Norwich. Line engraving by W. & C. Yates.
  • Dr Samuel Johnson reading the manuscript of Oliver Goldsmith's 'The vicar of Wakefield', while a bailiff waits with the landlady. Mezzotint by S. Bellin, 1845, after E.M. Ward.
  • Clocks: diagrams for setting-out a sundial [?]. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
  • John Milton dictating 'Paradise Lost' to his daughter due to his blindness. Line engraving by C. Grignion after S. Wale.
  • Christ's Hospital, Hertford. Line engraving by A. Fox.
  • Great Exhibition, London, 1851: the exhibition stand of Matifat showing gilt bronze lamps, vases, clocks and other ornaments. Wood engraving after H. Anelay, 1851.
  • Clocks: two composite pendulums, and diagrams of their motions. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
  • St. John's Church, Margate, Kent. Line engraving.
  • A wife dutifully sits by the bedside of her sick husband, watching over him. Mezzotint by J.C. Bromley, 1837, after E. Prentis.
  • Clocks: casting a bell for the clock of the New Palace of Westminster. Wood engraving.
  • Yarmouth Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England: interior. Line engraving by R. Sands, 1824, after J.P. Neale.
  • Mechanics: various machines. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.
  • Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh: boys playing in the grounds. Etching by T. Flowers after W. Wallace.
  • Clocks: a bracket clock formerly in the possession of the East India Company. Process print.