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Rocks

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  • Lourdes and Gave-de-Pau, Hautes Pyrénées, France: peasants fishing with the castle in the background. Lithograph, 1821, after M. Colston.
  • Men resting their camels and smoking by the approach to Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe after D. Roberts, 1839.
  • Hong Kong: distillery and china sugar refinery at East Point, c. 1871. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • Ancient rock-cut watch-tower overlooking the valleys of El Ghor and Akabah. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Japanese huts and trees on two outcrops of rock either side of a channel of water. Watercolour.
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    [Theophrastou peri tōn lithōn biblion] = Theophrastus's history of stones. With an English version, and notes ... Also, Observations on the new Swedish acid, and of the stone from which it is obtained; and with an idea of a natural and artificial method of fossils / By John Hill.

    Theophrastus. | Date: 1774
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    Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées: pilgrims gathered at the cave of Massabielle. Lithograph.

    | Reference: 20359i
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    Vignette title to part one of Oriental Scenery. Aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.

    Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840. | Date: 1795 | Reference: 27232i
    Part of: Oriental scenery
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    Hong Kong: distillery and china sugar refinery at East Point, c. 1871. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

    Floyd, William Pryor. | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 29773i
    Part of: Places in South China, Hong Kong, Macao and Japan. Photographs by William Pryor Floyd, ca. 1873.
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    Ancient rock-cut watch-tower overlooking the valleys of El Ghor and Akabah. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.

    Roberts, David, 1796-1864. | Date: [1849] | Reference: 35575i
    Part of: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia
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