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A fox, a monkey and a badger are deliberating directions at a crossing. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.
Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899Date: 1853Reference: 39615i
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A nocturnal battle between two stags. Steel engraving by G. Zobel after E. H. Landseer.
Landseer, Edwin, Sir, 1802-1873Date: 1868Reference: 40146i- Pictures
John Quincy Adams. Steel engraving, 1881.
Date: [1881]Reference: 2885207iPart of: Twenty fine steel plate engravings of the Presidents of the United States of America, with fac-similes of their autographs.- Pictures
Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert. Steel engraving by D.J. Pound after J.E. Mayall.
Mayall, J. E. (John Jabez Edwin), 1813-1901Reference: 5333i
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Ticket for the Tiverton School Feast of 1726. Steel engraving by J. Moore after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764Date: 1800-1899Reference: 39213i
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A man visiting a health resort is being sprayed with water coming from a stool on which he is trying to sit. Etching, 1869.
Date: May 1869Reference: 572648iPart of: The water cure illustrated.
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London interiors: a grand national exhibition of the religious, regal, and civic solemnities, public amusements, scientific meetings, and commerical scenes of the British capital; beautifully engraved on steel, from drawings made expressly for this work, with descriptions written by official authorities.
Date: [1841-1844]- Pictures
James Knox Polk. Steel engraving, 1881.
Date: [1881]Reference: 2885212iPart of: Twenty fine steel plate engravings of the Presidents of the United States of America, with fac-similes of their autographs.- Pictures
The church of Baloukli, near Constantinople: interior. Steel engraving by T. Turnbull after T. Allom.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872Date: [between 1840 and 1849?]Reference: 2165011i
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A man visiting a health resort is bound and transported on a day bed by two men; bath tub in the background. Etching, May 1869.
Date: May 1869Reference: 572643iPart of: The water cure illustrated.
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Head of a deerhound. Steel engraving by C. G. Lewis after E. H. Landseer.
Landseer, Edwin, Sir, 1802-1873Reference: 40060i
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A man points his gun at a bird in the air while his dogs are avid to fetch the prey. Steel engraving by Harris, 18--.
Harris (Steel engraver)Date: [approximately 1860?]Reference: 41631i
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Men of opposing social classes in a game of boules; illustrating the faculty of weight and resistance in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27623i- Pictures
Laodicea, Turkey: ruins of the ancient city. Steel engraving by E.P. Brandard after T. Allom.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872Date: [between 1840 and 1849?]Reference: 2200258i- Pictures
Andrew Johnson. Steel engraving, 1881.
Date: [1881]Reference: 2885218iPart of: Twenty fine steel plate engravings of the Presidents of the United States of America, with fac-similes of their autographs.
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Reynard the fox is lowering himself into a well by sitting on the well-bucket, while the wolf is raised out of the well by the same move. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.
Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899Date: 1853Reference: 39608i
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Three horses standing near a thatched cottage in the moors. Steel engraving by G. Zobel after E. H. Landseer.
Landseer, Edwin, Sir, 1802-1873Reference: 40133i
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Bazile and Bartolo, characters from a story by Beaumarchais, representing the phrenological 'propensity' of secretiveness. Steel engraving by Geoffroy, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27616i- Pictures
Kasımpaşa port, Istanbul. Steel engraving by J.C. Armytage after T. Allom.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872Date: [between 1840 and 1849?]Reference: 2168546i
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A child wearing Scottish dress and a feathered hat is mounted on a Shetland pony. Steel engraving by J. Cochrane after W. Salter, 1845.
Salter, William, 1804-1875Date: [1846]Reference: 41360i- Pictures
A Chartist meeting at night: demonstrators carry a banner demanding universal suffrage. Steel engraving by S.P. Fletcher, 1848.
Fletcher, S.P.Date: [1848]Reference: 3025077i
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A musician playing the clarinet outside a town-house is given threepence by a footman and asked to move on, but the musician asks for more money. Steel engraving after R. Seymour.
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836Date: 1800-1899Reference: 32005i
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The devil examining the head of a boy; three other boys lurk under the devil's wings; frontispiece to a manual on phrenology. Steel engraving by J.D. Nargeot, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27612i- Pictures
Ephesus, Turkey: ruins of the ancient city. Steel engraving by A. Willmore after T. Allom.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872Date: [between 1840 and 1849?]Reference: 2200280i- Pictures
Abraham Lincoln. Steel engraving, 1881.
Date: [1881]Reference: 2885217iPart of: Twenty fine steel plate engravings of the Presidents of the United States of America, with fac-similes of their autographs.