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Apparently set in Italy. The man beggging for alms has a wooden leg and crutches. Behind him stands a woman holding a distaff. Right, two men in discussion

A man begging for alms at the side of a road is holding out his cap to a traveller on horseback. Engraving by James Peake, 1777, after J. Courtois, il Borgognone.

In the right foreground a distraught woman lies by the side of a road, her wrist being held by a man standing. Left, a traveller seen from behind kneels to drink from a waterfall. On a wooden bridge nearby, a second traveller receives directions from a young man pointing along the road to the right. In the centre is the prospect of a town with a fortified citadel, built over a river
Called in the Fitzwilliam Museum online catalogue "Wooded landscape with figures of Judah and Tamar", but the identification seems unlikely, as the man is young whereas Judah was the father in law of Tamar; and the woman is not disguising her face, she is being recognized by the man, contrary to the story of Judah and Tamar. The National Gallery of Scotland online catalogue calls it "Landscape with Cephalus and Procris (or St John and the Magdalene)": there is no sign that the man is a hunter like Cephalus or that the woman had been shot by mistake as Procris was

1 print : engraving, with etching ; platemark 40.7 x 55.1 cm

A road by a river outside a town: a distraught woman lying by the side of a road is recognized by a man who grasps her by the wrist. Engraving by W. Woollett.

In the background is a mountain or hill

1 print : etching ; platemark 22.8 x 16 cm

A corpulent man with a stick; representing a traveller. Etching by R. Brichet, 1784, after J. F. de Göz.

Brenthurst third series

xix, 295 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.

Flora Herscheliana : Sir John and Lady Herschel at the Cape 1834 to 1838 / Brian Warner, John Rourke.

1 print : drypoint ; platemark 29.6 x 22.2 cm

An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animals bladder. Drypoint.

volumes : illustrations, plates, portraits, maps, plans, facsimiles ; 31 cm

Le tour du monde : nouveau journal des voyages / publié sous la direction de M. Édouard Charton; et illustré par nos plus célèbres artistes.

A doum palm tree (Hyphaene thebaica) on the African plains, sheltering 3 people. Wood engraving, c. 1873.

1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 35 x 46.5 cm

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A man begging for alms at the side of a road is holding out his cap to a traveller on horseback. Engraving by James Peake, 1777, after J. Courtois, il Borgognone.

A road by a river outside a town: a distraught woman lying by the side of a road is recognized by a man who grasps her by the wrist. Engraving by W. Woollett.

A corpulent man with a stick; representing a traveller. Etching by R. Brichet, 1784, after J. F. de Göz.

Flora Herscheliana : Sir John and Lady Herschel at the Cape 1834 to 1838 / Brian Warner, John Rourke.

An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animals bladder. Drypoint.

Le tour du monde : nouveau journal des voyages / publié sous la direction de M. Édouard Charton; et illustré par nos plus célèbres artistes.

A doum palm tree (Hyphaene thebaica) on the African plains, sheltering 3 people. Wood engraving, c. 1873.

A wealthy family arriving at a hotel and being greeted by the proprietor. Engraving.

A forest of doum palms (Hyphaene thebaica) in French Sudan, with a travelling group of men and horses. Wood engraving, c. 1867.

En Marinelæges Dagbog i Vestindien og ved Østersøescadren / [af] William E. Wiinstedt ; ved Jørgen H. Barfod.

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A man begging for alms at the side of a road is holding out his cap to a traveller on horseback. Engraving by James Peake, 1777, after J. Courtois, il Borgognone.

A road by a river outside a town: a distraught woman lying by the side of a road is recognized by a man who grasps her by the wrist. Engraving by W. Woollett.

A corpulent man with a stick; representing a traveller. Etching by R. Brichet, 1784, after J. F. de Göz.

Flora Herscheliana : Sir John and Lady Herschel at the Cape 1834 to 1838 / Brian Warner, John Rourke.

An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animals bladder. Drypoint.

Le tour du monde : nouveau journal des voyages / publié sous la direction de M. Édouard Charton; et illustré par nos plus célèbres artistes.

A doum palm tree (Hyphaene thebaica) on the African plains, sheltering 3 people. Wood engraving, c. 1873.

A wealthy family arriving at a hotel and being greeted by the proprietor. Engraving.

A forest of doum palms (Hyphaene thebaica) in French Sudan, with a travelling group of men and horses. Wood engraving, c. 1867.

En Marinelæges Dagbog i Vestindien og ved Østersøescadren / [af] William E. Wiinstedt ; ved Jørgen H. Barfod.

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