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  • Rome: ruins of ancient sepulchre and aqueduct. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1750.
  • Figures gathered at the central spring, Epetan, Java. Coloured aquatint by T. Fielding, 1817.
  • St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales. Line engraving.
  • Water-sellers filling barrels with water from a water fountain in Madrid. Wood engraving by C. Roberts, 1876.
  • St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales. Line engraving.
  • Market Cross, Winchester, Hampshire. Steel engraving by Roberts after W.H. Bartlett.
  • Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.
  • The aqueduct, Fréjus, France. Line engraving by G. Hackert after J.P. Hackert, 1778.
  • Storage reservoir at Claremont Square, Pentonville, under construction. Wood engraving, 1856.
  • St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales. Coloured line engraving.
  • A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
  • Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.
  • The Well of En-Rogel, Jerusalem. Coloured photholithograph by A.A. Isaacs.
  • Second Matabele War, Zimbabwe: British soldiers climbing down to fetch water from the bottom of a pit. Halftone by André & Sleigh Ld after C.E. Fripp, 1896.
  • Fountain of Siloam, Jerusalem, Israel. Coloured aquatint by L. Mayer.
  • St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales: interior. Line engraving by Newman & Co.
  • Panorama of the river Thames and the buildings of the City, looking northwards beside London Bridge. Engraving by S. and N. Buck, 1749.
  • A disgruntled portly man standing next to a town water pump holding a ladle and rubbing his stomach as if in pain. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1831.
  • A paddle-driven beam-engine suction pump for raising water, used at London Bridge. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1820, after J. Farey.
  • World War One: three soldiers sterilising water for the troops. Gouache painting, c. 1916.
  • Sir Hugh Myddelton, his hand resting on a shell, from which flows water, set on a rock. Line engraving by G. Vertue, 1722, after C. Johnson, 1632.
  • A chalybeate well, Tijuca, Brazil. Lithograph by N. Whittock, 1830, after R. Walsh.
  • Figures, horses and camels gathering by the Well near Emmaus (Imwas), Jordan. Line engraving by C. Cousen after W.H. Bartlett.
  • Temple of Faunus, part of the Aqueducts of Nero, Rome. Engraving.
  • Leez Priory, Essex: a conduit in the inner quadrangle . Lithograph by F. Bedford.
  • St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales. Line engraving.
  • A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
  • Ewelme Hospital with side section floor plan, Oxfordshire. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1858, after F.T. Dollman.
  • Santorini, Greece: men carrying hogskins full of water to a cistern. Photograph. 18--.
  • Poor sanitary conditions in London in 1862: four scenes. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin, 1862.