Flat, durable material used for flooring and roofing

Clayton's patent tile, brick and pipe machine.

Bacchus, Roman God of wine, mosaic pavement, Roman

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

The labelled interior of a boiler room at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.

Roman mosaic (tessellated) pavement, London

The interior of a room with steam and cold water pipes at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.

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

A seventeenth-century bath-house, or bagnio, at St. Giles, London. Wood engraving.

1 photograph : photoprint, silver gelatin

The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Hispano-Moresque pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 9.8 x 15.1 cm

xiv, 136 pages, 55 plates (part colour; including ports.) : colour frontispiece ; 30 x 23 cm

Early Netherlands maiolica : with special reference to the tiles at the Vyne in Hampshire / by Bernard Rackham.

1 print : lithograph ; image 15.7 x 23.2 cm

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Tiles

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Roman mosaic (tessellated) pavement, London

The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Hispano-Moresque pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.

A seventeenth-century bath-house, or bagnio, at St. Giles, London. Wood engraving.

Early Netherlands maiolica : with special reference to the tiles at the Vyne in Hampshire / by Bernard Rackham.

The interior of a room with steam and cold water pipes at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.

Tiles

Images from the collections

Images referencing Tiles

Works from the collections

Roman mosaic (tessellated) pavement, London

The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Hispano-Moresque pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.

A seventeenth-century bath-house, or bagnio, at St. Giles, London. Wood engraving.

Early Netherlands maiolica : with special reference to the tiles at the Vyne in Hampshire / by Bernard Rackham.

The interior of a room with steam and cold water pipes at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.

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