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  • A ruler enthroned defending a fortress from the invading British. Gouache drawing.
  • Sarawak: interior of the Baram Fort. Photograph.
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.
  • Men sitting to smoke by the citadel of Jerusalem. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe after D. Roberts, 1841.
  • The Bastille, Paris. Line engraving by J.F. Borgnet after J.M. Gudin (?).
  • Island of Deshima, Dutch East India Company
  • The young Samson excels on the battlefield. Etching by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.
  • Crimean War: a blazing battle in and around the harbour at Sevastopol, details of the French and English ships are given. Wood engraving, 1855.
  • A doum palm tree (Hyphaene thebaica) in Nubia sheltering three people. Wood engraving by Faguet, c. 1867.
  • Chaos in the aftermath of battle with the dead and wounded being attended to as the armies retreat. Engraving by J. J. Kleinschmidt after G. P. Rugendas I.
  • Six men play cards and smoke outside a country inn with a castle in the distance. Etching by B. Chiboust, mid-17th century, after D. Teniers (?).
  • Towns, cotton plant, bird and rock formations of Persia, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, c.1704.
  • Plants, birds and archaeological sites from Persia, including terpentine plant (Pistacia terebinthus). Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1705.
  • A Russian nobleman riding with his servant and smoking a hooka. Coloured lithograph by D. Dighton, c. 1820, after A. Orlowski.
  • 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.
  • Interior view of the second North Fort of Taku
  • Sarawak: exterior view of the Baram Fort. Photograph.
  • Russo-Japanese War: Japanese soldiers entering a bombed fort to find dead and wounded men. Halftone, c. 1905, after C. M. Sheldon, from photographs.