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Rebuilding of the walls of the City of London: King Alfred the Great, on horseback, visits the building site and gives an order to the master builder. Colour process print after F.O. Salisbury, 1912.
Salisbury, Frank O. (Frank Owen), 1874-1962.Date: [1912?]Reference: 2970979i- Pictures
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Horsemen assembled outside the city walls at Kabul, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
Reference: 27050i- Pictures
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Antioch, Turkey: remains of the old walls of the city, following the slope of a mountain. Engraving by J.B. Liénard after L.F. Cassas.
Cassas, Louis François, 1756-1827.Date: [germinal an. VI [1798]]Reference: 2851381i- Pictures
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Rhodes: a gateway in the old walls of the city. Photograph, 1931.
Date: [1931]Reference: 666373i- Pictures
King Charles I on horseback outside the city walls of Hull: the Parliamentarians inside, led by Sir John Hotham, refuse to surrender the city. Engraving by N. Tardieu after C. Parrocel.
Parrocel, Charles, 1688-1752.Date: [1728]Reference: 3225795iPart of: Ten curious prints of the most remarkable transactions of the reign of King Charles 1st- Pictures
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Men sitting or lying on the hillside outside the walls of a city, playing cards. Engraving after P. van Laer (?).
Laer, Pieter van, approximately 1592-1642.Reference: 33345i- Pictures
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Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.
Lecomte, Hippolyte, 1781-1857.Date: 1820Reference: 24451i- Pictures
The Anio water conduit, showing how the stone piping is concealed within the city walls of Rome. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1756.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: 1756Reference: 2925124i- Pictures
The arch of Augustus, Rimini: three-quarter view of the arch, the city walls, and adjacent houses. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1748.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: [1748]Reference: 2982350i- Pictures
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Janina, Albania (subsequently Greece): the town seen through a gap in the city walls. Colour lithograph by R. Carrick after G.D. Beresford, 1855.
Beresford, G. de la Poer (George de la Poer)Date: [1855]Reference: 2200299i- Pictures
Pula (Pola), Istria (Croatia): the ancient arch of the Sergii adjacent to a gate in the city walls. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1748.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: [1748]Reference: 2982313i- Pictures
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An episode in the revolutionary war in China, 1911: a pitched battle between the imperial army (left) and the revolutionary army (right), outside the walls of a fortified city. Chromolithograph by T. Miyano.
Miyano, T.Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 645618i- Books
The lonely city : adventures in the art of being alone / Olivia Laing.
Laing, OliviaDate: 2016- Books
The curious lore of drugs and medicines (four thousand years of pharmacy) / by Charles H. LaWall.
LaWall, Charles H. (Charles Herbert), 1871-1937.Date: [1927], ©1927- Books
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An abstract of the annual registers of the parish poor, from the birth until apprenticed out: Viz. The seventeen parishes without the walls of the city of London, the twenty-three parishes in Middlesex and Surry, the ten parishes in the city and liberties of Westminster, according to the act of Parliament of the seventh year of His Present Majesty: and of the ninety-seven parishes within the walls of the city of London, according to the act of Parliament of the second year of His Present Majesty: from the first day of January 1798, to the thirty-first day of December inclusive. The said registers being received into the custody of the worshipful master, wardens, and company of parish clerks.
Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks.Date: MDCCXCIX. [1799]- Pictures
The city of Bologna. Engraving by M. Merian, 164-.
Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650.Date: [between 1640 and 1649?]Reference: 2992652i- Pictures
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Saints protecting the city of Bologna intercede with the Virgin to save the city from the plague. Etching by F. Torre after G. Reni.
Reni, Guido, 1575-1642.Date: [not later than 1656]Reference: 10156i- Books
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The antient and present state of the city of Oxford. Containing an account of its foundation, antiquity, Situation, Suburbs, Division by Wards, Walls, Castle, Fairs, Religious Houses, Abbeys, St. Frideswede's, Churches, as well those destroyed as the present, with their Monumental Inscriptions; Mayors, Members of Parliament, &c. The whole chiefly collected by Mr. Anthony à Wood; with additions by the rev. Sir J. Peshall, Bart.
Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Pictures
Algeria: the French attack on the besieged city of Constantine, 1837. Engraving by S. Cholet after H. Vernet.
Vernet, Horace, 1789-1863.Date: [between 1839 and 1848?]Reference: 2871596iPart of: Galeries historiques de Versailles.- Pictures
Guard turrets on the walls of Aurelian, Rome: different ground levels are shown before and after construction of the walls, with ruins of buildings incorporated into the wall. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1756.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: 1756Reference: 2975145i- Books
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Remarkable antiquities of the city of Exeter. Giving an account of the laws and customs of the place, the offices, Court of Judicature, Gates, Walls, Rivers, churches, and Immunities: the titles and privileges of the several incorporations: with their distinct coats of arms engrav'd on copper plates. Together with a catalogue of all the bishops, mayors and sheriffs, from the year 1049. Originally collected by Richard Izacke, Esq ; heretofore Chamberlain thereof: and now improv'd and continued to the year 1722. by Samuel Izacke, Esq ; the present Chamberlain. To which is now added, a correct map of the said city, together with the Guild-Hall and Conduit.
Izacke, Richard, 1624?-1698.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Books
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Remarkable antiquities of the city of Exeter. Giving an account of the laws and customs of the place, the offices, Court of Judicature, Gates, Walls, Rivers, churches, and Immunities: the titles and privileges of the several incorporations; with their distinct coats of arms engrav'd on copper plates. Together with a catalogue of all the bishops, mayors, and sheriffs, from the year 1049. Originally collected by Richard Izacke Esq; heretofore Chamberlain thereof; and now improv'd and continued to the year 1724. by Samuel Izacke Esq; the present Chamberlain. To which is now added, a correct map of the said city, together with the Guild Hall and Conduit.
Izacke, Richard, 1624?-1698.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Pictures
A section of the walls of Aurelian, Rome. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1756.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: 1756Reference: 2975144i- Books
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The mutual duties of magistrates and people. A sermon, Preach'd in the Church of St. Mary Redcliff, in the City of Bristol, On the 29th Day of May, 1721. Before the Magistrates of the said City; And Publish'd at their Desire. By John Gibb, A. M. Prebendary of Bedmister and Redcliff in the Cathedral-Church of Sarum; and Vicar of the Parish-Church of Bedmister, with it's annexed Chapels of St. Thomas and St. Mary Redcliff, in the City of Bristol, and of Abbots-Leigh, in the County of Somerset.
Gibb, John, M.A.Date: [1721?]- Pictures
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People chatting against a wall bearing graffiti of the skeletal figure of death reaching out to them with clawed hands; an advertisement for the New York City Department of Health AIDS Information helpline. Colour lithograph by Susan Wilcox.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 669044i