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Michael Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution: Prince Albert and his sons in the audience. Wood engraving, 1856, after A. Blaikley.

Figures outside the Royal Institution. Line engraving by G. Aikman, 1841, after G.M. Kemp.

Boer War: article "Women in the war", with an illustration of Queen Victoria with families of reservists at Windsor. Text by A. Hugh Fisher, and halftone after S. Begg, 1900.

Sakuntala with two women surprised by King Dushyanta. Chromolithograph.

The London Hospital, Whitechapel: the ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the new wing. Wood engraving, 1864.

Boer War: Queen Victoria presenting flowers to a wounded soldier during a visit to the Herbert hospital, Woolwich. Halftone after S. Begg, 1900.

The chair on which the Duke of York (1763-1827?) died. Coloured engraving, ca. 1827.

A procession of carriages watched by crowds lining the streets, with soldiers on parade: a hot-air balloon flies overhead. Coloured engraving, 1814.

Boer War: Queen Victoria being presented with flowers by a Victoria Jubilee Nurse at the Viceregal Lodge, Dublin. Halftone, c. 1900, after W. Hatherell after W. C. Mills.

The London Hospital, Whitechapel: King Edward VIII and Queen Alexandra in the Finsen Light room. Process print after a drawing by A. Forestier, c.1903.

A king sits drinking at a table surrounded by revelling courtiers and a man about to vomit. Engraving after J. Jordaens, c. 1640.

Page 14: two portraits of Raja Dena Nath and Mohid Khan King of Kabul. Watercolour drawing.

Who's who in British history : beginnings to 1901 / general editor, Geoffrey Treasure ; authors and contributors, Ian Dawson [and others].

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The London Hospital, Whitechapel: King Edward VIII and Queen Alexandra in the Finsen Light room. Process print after a drawing by A. Forestier, c.1903.

The chair on which the Duke of York (1763-1827?) died. Coloured engraving, ca. 1827.

A king sits drinking at a table surrounded by revelling courtiers and a man about to vomit. Engraving after J. Jordaens, c. 1640.

Page 14: two portraits of Raja Dena Nath and Mohid Khan King of Kabul. Watercolour drawing.

Who's who in British history : beginnings to 1901 / general editor, Geoffrey Treasure ; authors and contributors, Ian Dawson [and others].