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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.

Architecture: a tile works (above), details of equipment (below). Engraving by Bénard [after Lucotte?].

Architecture: diagrammatic roof trusses. Engraving [after S. H. Brooks?], 1850.

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.

Architecture: various ways of cutting materials to cover a roof. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.

J. Luce de Lancival, a professor and poet, with an artificial leg walking with a group of men. Etching.

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

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

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Architecture

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Works from the collections

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.

Architecture: various ways of cutting materials to cover a roof. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.

J. Luce de Lancival, a professor and poet, with an artificial leg walking with a group of men. Etching.

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

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

Architecture

Images from the collections

Images about Architecture

Works from the collections

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.

Architecture: various ways of cutting materials to cover a roof. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.

J. Luce de Lancival, a professor and poet, with an artificial leg walking with a group of men. Etching.

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

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

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