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Serbo-Bulgarian War: two sketches showing volunteers on their way to the front and hospital camp. Wood engraving by J. Nash.

A board of medical officers of the Navy examining a naval man's injured arm. Halftone after Joseph Nash the younger after a sketch by A. Gascoigne Wildey.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 20.1 x 22.7 cm

Interment at Westminster Abbey of the coffin of David Livingstone. Wood engraving by J. Nash.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 22.4 x 30 cm

Jacob Wainwright sitting next to the coffin of David Livingstone on board ship. Wood engraving by J. Nash, after a photograph.

Ned Kelly, Australian gangster, convicted of murder, and hanged on 11 November 1880

1 print : wood engraving ; image 30.3 x 22.7 cm

Ned Kelly: incidents in his life. Wood engraving by J. Nash, ca. 1880.

An invention by A. Denayrouze, combining a source of air with a safety lamp, enabling a miner to "work with ease in the midst of the most inflammable and deadly gas" (The graphic, loc. cit.)

1 print : wood engraving ; image 22.4 x 29.8 cm

A man in a mine, using safety apparatus invented by Auguste Denayrouze, finds asphyxiated miners. Wood engraving by J. Nash, 1874.

Abdulhamid II (1842–1918) was the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the last Sultan to exert effective autocratic control. He was known his innovative attitudes
The setting shows a combination of West and East. Though the table and the room are mostly decorated in European fashion, oriental pomp and majesty is nevertheless dominant, for instance, in the gold chair of the Sultan, the use of men servants (Turkish women servants could not be used for service to foreign men), abstinence from alcohol by the Sultan, etc.

1 print : halftone ; image 21.6 x 29.6 cm

Sultan Abdulhamid II hosting a dinner at Yildiz Palace, Istanbul. Halftone by C. Hentschel, 1895, after J. Nash.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 32.8 x 51 cm

British and East African sailors rescue slaves from a dhow and allot the women slaves as wives. Wood engraving after J. Nash, 1893.

Earlier in 1895 the area had been the location of the Chitral Expedition, a British expedition attempting to restore government to Chitral and establish it as in the British rather than the Russian sphere of influence

1 print : wood engraving ; image 30.4 x 22.8 cm

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Serbo-Bulgarian War: two sketches showing volunteers on their way to the front and hospital camp. Wood engraving by J. Nash.

A board of medical officers of the Navy examining a naval man's injured arm. Halftone after Joseph Nash the younger after a sketch by A. Gascoigne Wildey.

Interment at Westminster Abbey of the coffin of David Livingstone. Wood engraving by J. Nash.

Jacob Wainwright sitting next to the coffin of David Livingstone on board ship. Wood engraving by J. Nash, after a photograph.

Ned Kelly: incidents in his life. Wood engraving by J. Nash, ca. 1880.

A man in a mine, using safety apparatus invented by Auguste Denayrouze, finds asphyxiated miners. Wood engraving by J. Nash, 1874.

Sultan Abdulhamid II hosting a dinner at Yildiz Palace, Istanbul. Halftone by C. Hentschel, 1895, after J. Nash.

British and East African sailors rescue slaves from a dhow and allot the women slaves as wives. Wood engraving after J. Nash, 1893.

Men building a road through the Malakand Pass, India (subsequently Pakistan). Wood engraving after C. de W. Crookshank and J. Nash, 1895.

Serbo-Bulgarian War: an escorted convoy of ambulances carrying the sick and wounded. Wood engraving by J. Nash.

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Serbo-Bulgarian War: two sketches showing volunteers on their way to the front and hospital camp. Wood engraving by J. Nash.

A board of medical officers of the Navy examining a naval man's injured arm. Halftone after Joseph Nash the younger after a sketch by A. Gascoigne Wildey.

Interment at Westminster Abbey of the coffin of David Livingstone. Wood engraving by J. Nash.

Jacob Wainwright sitting next to the coffin of David Livingstone on board ship. Wood engraving by J. Nash, after a photograph.

Ned Kelly: incidents in his life. Wood engraving by J. Nash, ca. 1880.

A man in a mine, using safety apparatus invented by Auguste Denayrouze, finds asphyxiated miners. Wood engraving by J. Nash, 1874.

Sultan Abdulhamid II hosting a dinner at Yildiz Palace, Istanbul. Halftone by C. Hentschel, 1895, after J. Nash.

British and East African sailors rescue slaves from a dhow and allot the women slaves as wives. Wood engraving after J. Nash, 1893.

Men building a road through the Malakand Pass, India (subsequently Pakistan). Wood engraving after C. de W. Crookshank and J. Nash, 1895.

Serbo-Bulgarian War: an escorted convoy of ambulances carrying the sick and wounded. Wood engraving by J. Nash.

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