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A man receiving water on his arm from a fountain of Aesculapius; representing the healthy consequences of water treatment at Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria. Colour lithograph by F. Rehm, 1902.
Rehm, Friedrich (Fritz), 1871-1928.Date: 1902Reference: 40257i- Books
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Particulars of the manors of Ilminster and Dillington, White Lackington and Atherstone in the county of Somerset, with court leet and court baron; a capital stone mansion, called Dillington House, with all necessary attached and detached offices, pleasure-grounds, plantations, fish-ponds, and walled gardens, situate in a beautiful paddock or park, containing about seventy acres of remarkably fine land, with rich meadows adjoining. Of several capital freehold farms, meadows, mills, houses, and lands; and the tolls of fairs and markets in Ilminster; let at rack rents to very responsible tenants, mostly at will: and of several estates, granted out on leases for lives; also of the advowson of the vicarage of Ilminster; a valuable church lease of the great tithes of the townships of Ilminster and Dillington; a small leashold estate, held under the Earl of Egremont; and a moiety of the manor courts for the hundreds of bulstone and abdick, with very extensive common rights on a piece of rich land, called winterhay green, and on the forest of Neroch.
Date: 1792?]- Books
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An historical description of St. Paul's Cathedral, Containing, 1. The History of the Old Cathedral from it's Foundation; in which many curious Particulars concerning it's ancient Customs, Privileges, and Solemnities, are recited. 2. An Account of the Manner of proceeding in taking down the vast Ruins of the Old Cathedral, with the Discoveries and Observations made upon the Spot by Sir Christopher Wren. 3. A full Description of the founding, building, ornamenting, and finishing the present Structure, with Observations on it's Beauties and Defects. 4. An Explanation of the Entablature, Sculpture, and all the Decorations and Paintings both within and without the Church. 5. A concise Account of every Thing curious that is shewn in it to Strangers. 6. A Comparison of it's Dimensions with those of the Old Church: And of the Dimensions of both with those of St. Peter's at Rome. To which are Added, a Description of the Monument, with an Explanation of its Sculpture, and a Translation of the Latin Inscriptions round it; Also some Conjectures concerning London-Stone and other Roman Remains; And a Review of the Ancient Walls and Gates about the City.
Henry, David, 1710-1792.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Pictures
Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: a boatman. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19594i- Ephemera
Bovril puzzle : a novelty from Bovril Limited : Bovril prevents that sinking feeling : Bovril is a combination of the stimulant extractives and the albumen & fibrine, the nourishing elements of beef.
Bovril Limited.Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]- Archives and manuscripts
Landscape with gate and trees (artwork)
Date: 1940s-1950sReference: PP/RSI/B/1/5/14/2Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Ephemera
Use Kidd's cough syrup : safe for children : price only 25 cents / prepared by Fleming Bros.
Fleming Bros.Date: [between 1880 and 1889?]- Pictures
Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1866Reference: 19124i- Videos
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Full circle.
Date: 1974- Ephemera
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Farm cats : the farmers friends / The Cats Protection League.
Date: [1990?]- Pictures
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Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners in uniform are marching towards the penitentiary after hard labour outside, supervised by armed guards. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamey.
Régamey, Guillaume Urban, 1837-1875.Date: [1876]Reference: 37745i- Pictures
Nankow pass, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Reference: 26270i- Pictures
Correct collection, storage and sterilization of water in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for Health Education Centre, 1997.
Date: 1997Reference: 752688i- Pictures
The west dining hall, Greenwich, in the crypt below the Painted Hall, full of Pensioners eating dinner. Coloured lithograph by W. Bligh Barker after himself.
Barker, William Bligh, 1807-1862.Date: 1840Reference: 31928i- Pictures
An alchemist and his assistant hoping to turn base metal into gold. Aquatint after T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Reference: 37574i- Books
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The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant; demonstrating, After the most easy and practical Method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish; Illustrated with a greater Number of useful and familiar Examples than any Work of that Kind hitherto published; With Clear and ample Instructions annexed to each Subject or Number, on the same Plate, with Estimates of Materials and Workmanship; Being not only useful to all Masons, Bricklayers, Plasterers, Carpenters, Joiners, and others concerned in the several Branches of Building, &c. but also necessary for Gentlemen, who will be hereby enabled to know the exact Expence of any Building, Alteration, or Repair. The whole correctly engraved on 92 folio copper-plates, containing upwards of seven hundred designs on the following Subjects, &c. 1. Of Foundations, Walls, and their Diminutions, Fitness of Chimneys, and Proportion of Light to Rooms, with the due Scantlings of Timber to be cut for Buildings, &c. II. Great Variety of Geometrical, Elliptic, and Polygon Figures, with Rules for their Formation, centering of all Sorts for Groins, Brick and Stone Arches, &c. both circular and splayed, also with circular Soflits in a circular Wall; many Examples for Gluing and Vancering Niches, &c. with Rules for tracing the Cover of Curve-Line Roofs, Piers, Vases, Pedestals for Sun-Dials, Busts, &c. and their must suitable Proportions. III. General Directions for framing Floors and Partitions Truss-Roofs, &c. and Methods to find the Length and Backing of Hips, straight or curve Lines to any Pitch, Square, or Bevel. IV. Of Stair-Cases, variously constructed; the Methods of working Ramp and Twist Rails; Profits of Stairs to shew the Manner of setting Carriages for the Steps; also the Framing of String-Boards and Rails, and likewise of fixing them. V. The Five Orders of Architecture from Palladio, with the Rule for gauging Flutes and Fillets on a diminished Column, by a Method extremely easy, and entirely new. VI. Doors, Windows, Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Cornices, Mouldings, &c. truly proportioned, in a plain and genteel Taste. Vii. Sacred Ornaments, viz. Altar-Pieces, Pulpits, &c. Viii. Gothic Architecture, being a various Collection of Columns, Entablatures, Arches, Doors, Windows, Chimney-Pieces, and other Decorations in that prevailing Taste-And it may be noted of these, as of all the foregoing Examples, that they are immediately adapted to Workmen, and may be executed by the meanest Capacity. IX. Plans and Elevations of elegant Buildings Green-Houses, Hot-Houses, Temples, Seats for Gardens, Parks, &c. By William Pain, Architect and Joiner.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Pictures
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Tomb effigy of William Bradbridge, his wife Alice, and their fourteen children. Brass rubbing.
Reference: 46841i- Books
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For the benefit of all people that keep cattle: being approved of by all those that have ever experienc'd or seen it, to be the cheapest and most lasting Thing of the Kind that ever yet was made; a new-invented toil, four Foot and a half high, for folding of sheep, or parting of any piece of land, much cheaper than Waddle Gates or Hurdles, more durable, and is strong enough for keeping in either Horses or Bullocks, made in quite a different Manner, and of a more durable Cordage than ever yet was made; being a very small Mash, bare three Inches and a half square, so small that neither Sheep nor Lamb can get their Head through, nor Fox creep through it; and so light, that a Man may with ease carry on his Back twenty Rods in length of it. Also all sorts of hop-bagging, sacks and sacking, Home-Made Sheeting Cloth, Ditto Hair Cloth, And Ash Cloths, Rough Hemp, Flax, Tippilings, and Towe, Fine drest Hemp and Flax for Shoe-Makers, And all sorts of Cloth, All sorts of Ropes, Rope Yarn, And Spun Yarn for Thatching, Plow Traces, Halters, Halter Reins, Foddering Lines, Hair Lines, Towing Lines, Packing Lines, Marline, Cloth Lines, Jack Lines, Clock Lines, Wall Lines, Garden Lines, and Fishing Lines, Whip-Cord of all sorts, Bed Cords, Would Cord, Box Cord, Sash Cord, Pack Thred, Shop Thred, Hair Thread, Coller-Makers Thred, Sealing Thred, Hemp and Flax Thred, Bedlam Twine, Fly Nets for Horses, And every sort of Netting Twine. Wholesale or Retail, as cheap as in London, by the maker, John Flaxman, in Stone-Street, Maidstone, in Kent. Note, He likewise sells Russia Yarn, Spinnell, Machine, Black Balls, Cat Gut, and Fish Hooks of all sorts; and gives Ready Money for any Quantity of Cow Tails or Horse Hair.
Flaxman, John.Date: [1760?]- Ephemera
Lifebuoy soap : for preservation of health : "a picture of health" / Lever Brothers Ltd.
Lever Brothers Ltd.Date: [between 1900 and 1909]- Pictures
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A surgeon removing a plaster from a man's back, with five people looking on. Oil painting attributed to Adriaen Rombouts, 16--.
Rombouts, Adriaen, active approximately 1640-after 1667.Date: [1647?/1667]Reference: 500931i- Pictures
The temple of Clitumnus, near Spoleto, Umbria. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1748.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: [1748]Reference: 2982357i- Pictures
Albano Laziale, Italy: ruins of a tomb called the tomb of the three brothers Curiatius. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1748.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: [1748]Reference: 2982301i- Digital Images
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Step Pyramid at Saqqare, Egypt
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Step Pyramid at Saqqare, Egypt
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Step pyramid at Saqqara, Egypt
Carole Reeves