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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.
Reference: 40374i- 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- E-books
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[Etchings of Coade's Artificial Stone Manufacture Narrow Wall Lambeth near Westminster Bridge]
Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory- 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- 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- 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- 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- 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- 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- 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
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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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
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.- 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- Ephemera
Sticks & stones may break YOUR bones but whips & chains excite ME!.
Date: [1993]- Ephemera
Sticks & stones may break YOUR bones but whips & chains excite ME!.
Date: [1993]- Ephemera
Sticks & stones may break YOUR bones but whips & chains excite ME!.
Date: [1992]- Pictures
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A woman in ragged clothing stands inside a stone niche holding a bowl; representing poverty. Coloured aquatint by H. Shaw, 1843.
Date: [1843]Reference: 32227i- Pictures
Nanking, Kiangsu province, China: stone warriors at the tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming emperor. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1871Reference: 19254i- Pictures
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Stonecrop (Sedum album): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24409i- Pictures
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The ascent of Mont Blanc by John Auldjo's party in 1827: mountaineers scaling a wall of ice above a precipice. Lithograph after J. Auldjo, 1828.
Auldjo, John, 1805-1886.Date: [1828]Reference: 43854i- Pictures
A white pony and two dogs (field spaniels?) wait by a carved stone (church?) doorway. Engraving by W. Raddon after A. Cooper, 1827.
Cooper, Abraham, 1787-1868.Date: Dec. 1, 1827Reference: 562230i