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Cisterns

Images

  • Water tank in St. Giles in the Fields, London. Wood engraving, 1858.
  • Tobacco Bay, Bermuda: ships in the bay, and a source of fresh water for them on land. Aquatint by J. Wells after Porgay, 1803.
  • Mountain side view of the Terrace-cisterns at Aden. Wood engraving.
  • Antioch, Turkey: the Medina gate. Engraving by Le Pagelet and C. Niquet after L.F. Cassas.
  • An ancient cistern near Lentini, Val di Noto, Sicily. Coloured aquatint after L. Mayer, 1812.
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Catalogue

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    Cistern (?) and pipes on board the hospital ship H.M.S. Inflexible. Glass positive, ca. 1919.

    | Date: [1919] | Reference: 588080i
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    Tobacco Bay, Bermuda: ships in the bay, and a source of fresh water for them on land. Aquatint by J. Wells after Porgay, 1803.

    Porgay, pseud. | Date: 28 Feb.y 1803 | Reference: 36840i
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    Antioch, Turkey: the Medina gate. Engraving by Le Pagelet and C. Niquet after L.F. Cassas.

    Cassas, Louis François, 1756-1827. | Date: [germinal an. VI [1798]] | Reference: 2851354i
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    An ancient cistern near Lentini, Val di Noto, Sicily. Coloured aquatint after L. Mayer, 1812.

    Mayer, Luigi, active 1776-1792. | Date: 1812 | Reference: 36183i
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    Water tank in St. Giles in the Fields, London. Wood engraving, 1858.

    | Date: 1858 | Reference: 36881i
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