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Two men, possibly students, carrying home a drunken doctor laid out on a door, verse below. Lithograph.

A brick built entrance to an underground water tunnel system in Greenwich Park, London.

Technology: a special hinge, and a stove. Engraving by W. Kelsall after C. Varley.

The doorway to the Turkish bath, El-Télet, Cairo (?). Lithograph by L.A. Asselineau after A.C.T.E. Prisse d'Avennes.

Technology: a door-closing mechanism: long section, cross-section, and details. Engraving by G. Gladwin after himself.

Architectural details of the hospital, Beaune. Line engraving by Sauvageot after L. Gaucherel and A. Verdier.

Cwm Avon Church, Glamorgan. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1860, after J.P. Seddon.

Technology: a door-closing mechanism. Engraving by J. B. Taylor after C. Varley.

A man hides behind one door as the young woman he has been with moves to greet a newly-arrived couple, appearing through another door. Stipple engraving, 1786.

An old dragon tree (Dracaena draco) with a gash in its stem releasing its "dragon's blood" resin and a door in its trunk. Aquatint with etching by R. G. Reeve after J. J. Williams, c.1819.

A prayer to Allah. Oil (?) painting.

Architecture: a church doorway with wrought ironwork at Woking, Surrey. Watercolour painting by [R J G R], 1851.

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

A brown door with brown and blue shapes either side and a small figure below

Building: an interior perspective of a hallway, showing stairs and interior fittings. Etching by W. A. Beever, 1850, after S. H. Brooks.

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Doors

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Images about Doors

Works from the collections

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

Technology: a door-closing mechanism: long section, cross-section, and details. Engraving by G. Gladwin after himself.

A brown door with brown and blue shapes either side and a small figure below

Cwm Avon Church, Glamorgan. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1860, after J.P. Seddon.

Building: an interior perspective of a hallway, showing stairs and interior fittings. Etching by W. A. Beever, 1850, after S. H. Brooks.

Doors

Images from the collections

Images about Doors

Works from the collections

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

Technology: a door-closing mechanism: long section, cross-section, and details. Engraving by G. Gladwin after himself.

A brown door with brown and blue shapes either side and a small figure below

Cwm Avon Church, Glamorgan. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1860, after J.P. Seddon.

Building: an interior perspective of a hallway, showing stairs and interior fittings. Etching by W. A. Beever, 1850, after S. H. Brooks.

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