Shaft within a building housing staircases and landings

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Architecture: the geometry of a curved staircase. Engraving by A. Bell.

Hospice de la Charité, Rheims, France: staircase. Lithograph by A. Dauzats after himself.

Architecture: a dog-leg staircase and details. Engraving by A. Bell.

Architecture: an assortment of masons tools, blocks of stone, and a folding rule. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].

Christ Church, Oxford: interior of staircase leading to the hall. Etching by A.L. Brunet Debaines.

Eastman Dental Hospital, London: a view of the staircase. Process print, 1926.

Hydraulics: a fountain at Grenelle, Paris, with spectators. Wood engraving by C. W. Sheeres, 1857.

The British Museum: the entrance hall and staircase. Wood engraving C. D. Laing, 1849, after B. Sly after L. Collman.

The staircase, and two details of the woodwork, at 49 Great Ormond Street, Holborn. Pencil drawing, June 1882, attributed to J. P. Emslie.

Architecture: various details of staircase design. Engraving by A. Bell.

Christ Church, Oxford: staircase to the Hall. Etching.

The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, May 1932, before occupation. Photograph.

A woman descending the stairs of a steep staircase in the gloom falls into the arms of a man who is ascending. Coloured lithograph, 1844.

Carpentry: various types of helical staircase, plans and sections. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.

Cabinet-making: a design for a balustrade or decorative panel [?]. Pencil drawing.

St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth: the entrance hall, with a statue of Queen Victoria. Wood engraving by [J. I.].

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Staircases

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Images referencing Staircases

Works from the collections

A woman descending the stairs of a steep staircase in the gloom falls into the arms of a man who is ascending. Coloured lithograph, 1844.

Carpentry: various types of helical staircase, plans and sections. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.

Cabinet-making: a design for a balustrade or decorative panel [?]. Pencil drawing.

St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth: the entrance hall, with a statue of Queen Victoria. Wood engraving by [J. I.].

Architecture: an assortment of masons tools, blocks of stone, and a folding rule. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].

Staircases

Images from the collections

Images referencing Staircases

Works from the collections

A woman descending the stairs of a steep staircase in the gloom falls into the arms of a man who is ascending. Coloured lithograph, 1844.

Carpentry: various types of helical staircase, plans and sections. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.

Cabinet-making: a design for a balustrade or decorative panel [?]. Pencil drawing.

St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth: the entrance hall, with a statue of Queen Victoria. Wood engraving by [J. I.].

Architecture: an assortment of masons tools, blocks of stone, and a folding rule. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].

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