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Dwellings

Images

  • Archaeology: famous houses of France. Mixed method engraving after A.M. Perrot.
  • Singapore: a large bungalow with people having drinks in the garden around a large traveller's palm (Ravenala madagascariensis) Photograph by J. Taylor, 1881.
  • Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
  • A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.
  • The house of Abraham Cowley in Chertsey. Line engraving by J. Basire.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    A path bordered by flowerbeds leading to a cottage

    Peters, Frederick, active approximately 1967 | Date: June 1967 | Reference: 3015859i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Red and black house and three trees in a field with horizontal stripes in black, red and blue in the background

    Parks, Margaret, active approximately 1966-1967 | Date: 30 September 1966 | Reference: PP/ADA/C/8/116/7
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Group cooking on a campfire with caravan and donkey in background

    Beatty, Elizabeth, active approximately 1968 | Date: 3 January 1968 | Reference: 2846790i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    A road, lined with pale blue houses, leading to an orange mountainside with houses built into it

    Gurr, Graham, active approximately 1976-1984 | Date: 31 August 1983 | Reference: 2971544i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    A human figure with the head of a dog being blown away from the door of an orange house

    P, D., active approximately 1950 | Date: 30 June 1950 | Reference: PP/ADA/C/8/118
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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