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The levels of hell depicted as circular stone tiers; purgatory lies outside its walls. Engraving.
Reference: 25063i- Pictures
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Hospital de la Santa Cruz, Barcelona: a stone relief, carved into one of the exterior walls. Photograph.
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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
A section of the walls of Aurelian, Rome. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1756.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: 1756Reference: 2975144i- Pictures
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The ruins of the priory of St. Mary Overie, Southwark: a stone wall and timber framework. Coloured engraving, 1791.
Date: 1791Reference: 39387i- Books
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[Etchings of Coade's Artificial Stone Manufacture Narrow Wall Lambeth near Westminster Bridge]
Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory.Date: 1779?]- 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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Crosswort (Galium cruciata (L.) Scop.): flowering plants rooted in joints of stone wall with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16749i- Books
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An essay on the origin, nature, uses, and properties, of artificial stone: together with some observations upon common natural stone, clays, and burnt earths in general. In which the durability of the latter is shewn to be equal, if not superior, to the hardest marbles. Being the result of many experiments. By Daniel Pincot, Artificial Stone Manufacturer.
Pincot, Daniel.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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The practical planter, or, a treatise on forest planting: comprehending the culture and management of planted and natural timber, in every stage of its growth: also, on the culture and management of hedge fences, and the construction of stone walls, &c. By Walter Nicol, Author of ̀̀the Forcing and Kitchen Gardener;'' an ̀̀essay on Gardening,'' drawn up by Desire, and for Consideration of the Board of Agriculture; and Member of the Nat. Hist. Society of Edinburgh.
Nicol, Walter.Date: 1799- Books
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A very useful manual, or, The young mans companion : containing plain and easy directions for spelling, reading, and uniting English, with easy rules, for their attaining to writing, and arithmetick, and the Englishing of the Latin Bible without a tutor, likewise the plotting and measuring of land, globes, steeples, walls, barrels, timber, stone, boards, glass, &c. ... : and several other considerable and necessary matters, intended for the good of all, and for promoting love to one another : as by the table annexed particularly appears / collected by William Mather.
Mather, W. (William), active 1695Date: 1681- Archives and manuscripts
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Male patients and staff sitting on grass in front of stone wall and cliff
Date: 1890s - 1900sReference: RET 1/8/6/7/3Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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A treatise containing the practical part of fortification. In four parts. I. The theory of walls, arches, and timbers, with several tables of their dimensions. II. The knowledge of the materials, their properties, qualities, and the manner of using them. III. The manner of tracing a fortress on the ground, the making an estimate, and executing the works. IV. The method of building aquatics, as stone-bridges, harbours, quays, wharfs, sluices, andaAqueducts. Illustrated with twenty eight copper plates. For the use of the Royal Academy of Artillery at Woolwich. By John Muller, Professor of Artillery and Fortification.
Muller, John, 1699-1784.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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A treatise containing the practical part of fortification. In four parts. I. The Theory of Walls, Arches, and Timbers, with several Tables of their Dimensions. II. The Knowledge of the Materials, their Properties, Qualities, and the Manner of using them. III. The Manner of tracing a Fortress on the Ground, the making an Estimate, and executing the Works. IV. The Method of building Aquatics, as Stone Bridges, Harbours, Quays, Wharfs, Sluices, and Aqueducts. Illustrated with twenty-eight copper plates. For the Use of the Royal Academy of Artillery at Woolwich. By John Muller, Professor of Artillery and Fortification.
Muller, John, 1699-1784.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Pictures
The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with part of London Wall in the foreground, and a muck-raker scraping at the cobblestones. Etching by J. T. Smith, 1814, after himself, June 1812.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 15 September 1814Reference: 25639i- Books
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Coade's gallery, or, exhibition in artificial stone, Westminster-Bridge-Road, by appointments, from the King, Prince of Wales, Duke of York, &c. of statues, vases, bustos, pedestals, and stoves, medallions and pannels in bass-relief, models from the antique, chimney-pieces, monuments, fonts, coats of arms, &c. being specimens from the manufactory, at King's Arms Stairs, Narrow Wall, Lambeth, opposite Whitehall and Hungerford-Stairs, established in the year 1769, where it is requested that orders and letters may be directed. Admittance to the gallery, one shilling.
Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory.Date: 1799- Pictures
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A Chinese lady , seated indoors, playing a string instrument at an open window; left, a carved stone wall. Gouache.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 727427iPart of: Chinese picturesque scenes with women passing the time indoors. Gouache paintings.- Pictures
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Two young women are standing by a stone wall, one is offering the other a rose to smell. Lithograph by E.C. Fischer, 1844, after Héloise Leloir.
Leloir, Héloïse Colin, 1820-1873.Date: pub. 15 August 1844Reference: 33665i- Pictures
A trowel used to stop up with concrete a hole in a stone wall inhabited by rats, with a stop sign on it: campaign against rats in Denmark. Colour lithograph, 194-(?).
Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]Reference: 825637i- Pictures
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A prisoner sits in his cell and carves the Crucifixion in the wall with a nail. Engraving by F. Bacon after E.H. Wehnert.
Wehnert, Edward Henry, 1813-1868.Date: 1848Reference: 28886i- Pictures
Men building Hadrian's wall, being reprimanded by a Roman centurion. Photograph after W.B. Scott.
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890.Date: [19--?]Reference: 3154415i- Books
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An historical description of St. Paul's Cathedral. Containing 1. The History of the Old Cathedral from it's first Foundation, in which many curious Particulars concerning it's ancient Customs, Privileges, and Solemnities, are recited. 2. An Account of the Manner of proceeding in taking down the vast Ruins of the Old Cathedral, with the Discoverses and Observations made upon the Spot by Sir Christopher Wren. 3. A full Description of the founding, building, ornamenting, and finishing the present Structure, with Observations on it's Beauties and Defects. 4. A full View of every Thing curious in it shewn to Strangers. 5. A Comparison of its Dimensions with those of the Old Church: And of the Dimensions of both with those of St. Peter's at Rome. To which are added, A Description of the Monument, Some Conjectures concerning London-Stone and other Roman Relics, And a Review of the Ancient Walls and Gates about the City.
Henry, David, 1710-1792.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Pictures
Detail of the intestinal wall, showing cholaemia (bile circulating in the blood attacking tissue), in a 59-year old man with fatal obstruction of the common bile duct by stone. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1947.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1947Reference: 32132iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.- Ephemera
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Gravel & stone : Mr. A. Sparrow, "I suffered from stone in the bladder. I tried DeWitt's Pills & passed a stone within 48 hours"... : insist on DeWitt's Kidney & Bladder Pills.
E.C. DeWitt & Co.Date: [1920?]- Pictures
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The muscles of the human body, third layer, seen from the back; the figure balances a club with his right hand and stands before a wall of stone blocks. Colour mezzotint by L. Gautier d'Agoty after A. E. Gautier d'Agoty, 1773.
Gautier d'Agoty, A. E. (Arnaud Eloy), 1741-1771.Date: [1773]Reference: 32621i