Chinese C18 woodcut: 'Traction rope and piled bricks'

Chimneys showing the fireplace aperture, fire bricks and a crane. Engraving by D. Lizars.

The building of a ziggurat, perhaps the Tower of Babel; bricks are burned and chiselled. Etching.

A brick layer laying bricks, helped by a woman carring a basket of cement on her head. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.

Bellevue Hospital, New York City: hospital buildings with a tower; a pile of bricks in the foreground from a demolished building. Photograph.

Builders on a wooden scaffold let a bucket and some bricks fall down into the street. Colour lithograph after G. Kurt, 192-.

A brickmaker making bricks and roofing tiles: others carry them away in wheelbarrows to be fired in a kiln. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Alcoholism: a wall of air bricks, collapsing at the point at which it is seen through the glass of a bottle, representing the collapse of human strength due to alcohol. Colour lithograph after L. Gluchas, 1972.

A cross-section of the wax model of an equestrian statue of Louis XIV: showing the core all surrounded by broken bricks, with an illustration of the whole model encased in a plaster mould, covered with an iron net. Engraving by R. Bénard.

Slippery, smooth brick floor with manger

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Bricks or spirit : the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne / Emma Russell.

Reasons against several clauses in the bill now depending, Intitled, A Bill to prevent Abuses, in making of Bricks and Tiles; and to ascertain the Dimensions thereof.

The case of the brickmakers and bricklayers within the City of London and fifteen Miles thereof, who have conformed to the Act of the 12th of the late King for preventing Abuses in making Bricks, &c.

The precedents and supplement to the law of a Justice of Peace and parish officer; &c. By John Lord Viscount Dudley and Ward, and T. Cunningham, Esq. Under the Title Appeal, in the Precedents, are the Proceedings in several Appeals of Murder, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and King James I, now first translated from the Latin Entries of Sir Edward Coke. The Supplement contains many late Acts to the End of last Session; and under the Title Bricks and Tiles are inserted at Large the Acts of 12 Geo. 1, c. 35; 2 Geo. 2, c. 15, and 3. Geo. 2, c. 22, concerning the making of Bricks and Tiles, as well throughout the Kingdom in general, as more particularly within fifteen Miles of the City of London: All which Acts expired in the Year 1733, but were revived, continued, and amended, by an Act of the last Session.

Ridgeway's abstract of the budget: or, the taxes of the year 1784. Containing the whole of the dutes on the several articles of candles, petty customs &c. Paper, &c. Bricks and Tiles, Horses, Hackney Coaches, Beer, Cocoa Nuts, Coffee, &c. Lead, Starch and Soap, Postage of Letters, Killing of Game, Tea, Window Lights, Low Wines and Spirits, Linens and Cotton Stuffs, Raw and Thrown Silk, Hats, Pawning of Goods, &c. with an Abridgement of each of the Acts respecting the same.

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Bricks or spirit : the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne / Emma Russell.

Reasons against several clauses in the bill now depending, Intitled, A Bill to prevent Abuses, in making of Bricks and Tiles; and to ascertain the Dimensions thereof.

The case of the brickmakers and bricklayers within the City of London and fifteen Miles thereof, who have conformed to the Act of the 12th of the late King for preventing Abuses in making Bricks, &c.

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Two health centres, two ideologies

Doctor in the house

Getting sexy with cinnamon

The chymist’s trade card

Images

Catalogue

Bricks or spirit : the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne / Emma Russell.

Reasons against several clauses in the bill now depending, Intitled, A Bill to prevent Abuses, in making of Bricks and Tiles; and to ascertain the Dimensions thereof.

The case of the brickmakers and bricklayers within the City of London and fifteen Miles thereof, who have conformed to the Act of the 12th of the late King for preventing Abuses in making Bricks, &c.