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1 print : etching with line engraving ; platemark 20 x 37.2 cm

Higham-Ferrers College, Northampton, England. Etching by S. & N. Buck, 1729.

Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

In the foreground, people on foot or on horseback admire the city from a hill. Below them, outside the city walls, are extensive kitchen gardens. The key identifies 36 buildings including the leaning tower Torre Garisenda and its neighbour Torre degli Asinelli (nos. 12 and 11), the basilica of San Petronio (1) and the "Studio publico" (university, 13). Right, a compass showing the orientation

1 print : engraving, with etching ; border 23 x 37 cm

The city of Bologna. Engraving by M. Merian, 164-.

"The present view of the fertile plain of Troy, the course of Scamander and the different heights of Mount Ida was taken from the back of the Greek Church of Saint George at Troiaki ... it is conjectured that the most northern part of Troy might have extended to within a mile or two of the village of Cumkoie [Kumkoy] that is the sandy village, which appears in the middle of the plain. ... the place where Troy stood is now corn land, and partly overgrown with low underwood" (Museum Worsleyanum, op. cit. p. 41)

1 print : engraving, with etching ; platemark 24.9 x 36 cm

The plain of Troy. Engraving by W. Skelton.

The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia

1 print : lithograph with tint plate, with watercolour and gum arabic.

Bethlehem. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.

1 print : process print, with letterpress ; platemark 16.7 x 24.1 cm

Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome: the basilica, Piazza San Pietro, the colonnade, with the buildings of the Vatican and the surrounding country. Process print, ca. 1910, after G.B. Piranesi.

Arnout's own balloon is shown on the horizon

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 28.5 x 44.5 cm

Paris seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph, 1846, by J. Arnout.

Bodleian Library, Oxford: bird's eye view with key and coat of arms. Line engraving.

1 print : aquatint ; platemark 19.7 x 26.2 cm

The pool of Bethesda. Aquatint.

1 print : wood engraving ; border 18.1 x 28.4 cm

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Higham-Ferrers College, Northampton, England. Etching by S. & N. Buck, 1729.

Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

The city of Bologna. Engraving by M. Merian, 164-.

The plain of Troy. Engraving by W. Skelton.

Bethlehem. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.

Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome: the basilica, Piazza San Pietro, the colonnade, with the buildings of the Vatican and the surrounding country. Process print, ca. 1910, after G.B. Piranesi.

Paris seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph, 1846, by J. Arnout.

Bodleian Library, Oxford: bird's eye view with key and coat of arms. Line engraving.

The pool of Bethesda. Aquatint.

The buildings for the Florence Exhibition, Florence, Italy: aerial view. Wood engraving by J. S. Heaviside, 1861, after B. Sly.

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Higham-Ferrers College, Northampton, England. Etching by S. & N. Buck, 1729.

Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

The city of Bologna. Engraving by M. Merian, 164-.

The plain of Troy. Engraving by W. Skelton.

Bethlehem. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.

Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome: the basilica, Piazza San Pietro, the colonnade, with the buildings of the Vatican and the surrounding country. Process print, ca. 1910, after G.B. Piranesi.

Paris seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph, 1846, by J. Arnout.

Bodleian Library, Oxford: bird's eye view with key and coat of arms. Line engraving.

The pool of Bethesda. Aquatint.

The buildings for the Florence Exhibition, Florence, Italy: aerial view. Wood engraving by J. S. Heaviside, 1861, after B. Sly.

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