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1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; image 26.9 x 42.5 cm

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Coloured engraving.

Medical Heritage Library

11 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plate : map ; 22 cm

Opening of Lincoln's Inn Fields by Sir John Hutton, Chairman of the Council, on Saturday, 23rd February, 1895, at 2.30 p.m.

<p>Wigs are prominently displayed, including judges' and barristers' wigs, as the barber serves the legal practitioners of Lincoln's Inn. A theatre notice at the bottom left advertises the play The heir-at-law by George Colman the younger, 1797, as in performance at the Theatre Royal: it sums up the barber's business as hair (heir) at law (for lawyers)</p>

1 print : wood engraving ; image 12.9  x 10.7 cm

A barber's shop near Lincoln's Inn, London: a man answering an advertisement for the barber's assistant points to the advertisement in The times newspaper. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.

1 print : engraving ; image 10.1 x 15.6 cm

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Engraving.

1 print : engraving ; image 18.3 x 13.7 cm

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the museum. Engraving by E. Radclyffe after T. H. Shepherd.

1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; image 18.1 x 13.8 cm

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the Hunterian Museum. Coloured engraving by E. Radclyffe after T. H. Shepherd.

1 print : engraving ; image 9.9 x 14.8 cm

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Engraving by T.L. Busby, 1814, after Whichelo.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 9.6 x 14 cm

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the library. Wood engraving by F. G. Kitton after himself.

1 print : lithograph, on india paper ; image 20.6 x 15.2 cm

Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the dressing room at ground floor level. Lithograph by C. J. Richardson.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 16.1 x 23.2 cm

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The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Coloured engraving.

Opening of Lincoln's Inn Fields by Sir John Hutton, Chairman of the Council, on Saturday, 23rd February, 1895, at 2.30 p.m.

A barber's shop near Lincoln's Inn, London: a man answering an advertisement for the barber's assistant points to the advertisement in The times newspaper. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Engraving.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the museum. Engraving by E. Radclyffe after T. H. Shepherd.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the Hunterian Museum. Coloured engraving by E. Radclyffe after T. H. Shepherd.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Engraving by T.L. Busby, 1814, after Whichelo.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the library. Wood engraving by F. G. Kitton after himself.

Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the dressing room at ground floor level. Lithograph by C. J. Richardson.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the museum. Wood engraving after T. R. MacQuoid, 1854.

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The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Coloured engraving.

Opening of Lincoln's Inn Fields by Sir John Hutton, Chairman of the Council, on Saturday, 23rd February, 1895, at 2.30 p.m.

A barber's shop near Lincoln's Inn, London: a man answering an advertisement for the barber's assistant points to the advertisement in The times newspaper. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Engraving.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the museum. Engraving by E. Radclyffe after T. H. Shepherd.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the Hunterian Museum. Coloured engraving by E. Radclyffe after T. H. Shepherd.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Engraving by T.L. Busby, 1814, after Whichelo.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the library. Wood engraving by F. G. Kitton after himself.

Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the dressing room at ground floor level. Lithograph by C. J. Richardson.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the museum. Wood engraving after T. R. MacQuoid, 1854.

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