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  • Women representing architecture and astronomy. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1803, after R. Corbould.
  • Architecture: tools, derricks, and windlasses. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Architecture: various walls and masonry details. Engraving by Bénard [after Lucotte?].
  • Architecture: masonry tools. Engraving by Bénard [after Lucotte?].
  • Architecture: the geometry of a curved staircase. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Architecture: two composite roof trusses. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Jesus sits in the spacious house of Martha and Mary. Etching by J-G. Caquet after Meunier after H. van Steenwyk the younger.
  • Architecture: various roof trusses. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • The French Hospital, Old Street, London: view of the front court. Engraving by B. Cole.
  • A general plan of the layout of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with a scale and north point. Coloured lithograph, 1858, after P. C. Hardwick.
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Works from the collections

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    The beauties of Ireland. Being original delineations, topographical, historical, and biographical, of each county / By J.N. Brewer. Illustrated with engravings, by J. & H.S. Storer, after original drawings, chiefly by Mr. Petrie.

    Brewer, J. N. (James Norris) | Date: 1825-1826
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    Architecture: various ways of cutting materials to cover a roof. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.

    | Date: 2 January 1848 | Reference: 44273i
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    J. Luce de Lancival, a professor and poet, with an artificial leg walking with a group of men. Etching.

    | Reference: 23103i
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    Architecture: wrought iron lock. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1846, after E. H.

    | Reference: 44365i
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    Asylum : inside the closed world of state mental hospitals / photographs by Christopher Payne ; with an essay by Oliver Sacks.

    Payne, Christopher, 1968- | Date: [2009], ©2009
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Related topics

Building
United Kingdom
Timber
London
Hospital Design and Construction
Hospitals
Housing
Roof trusses
Stone
Hospital Design and Construction

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