Public thoroughfare in a built environment like a village or city

Romeo giving money to an apothecary for a poison that will enable him to kill himself. Mezzotint, 17--.

A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

Egypt: a street with a man smoking and riding a camel. Chromolithograph after C. F. H. Werner, 1873.

Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.

A street scene with a tall man offering snuff to a short, fat man. Coloured etching by W.P., 1827.

Crowded dark streets full of dead and dying people, bodies are being loaded on to a cart; representing cholera. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

Boer War: a large crowd in Cape Town on hearing news of the relief of Kimberley. Halftone, 1900, after J. Bruton.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire. Coloured engraving by P. Brannon, 1846.

A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.

A street tooth-drawer on his stall extracting a tooth from a patient. Wood engraving after C. Fripp (?).

The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.

1 print : wood engraving ; sheet 24 x 17.8 cm

Men, women and children are using roller skates as a mode of transport around the streets. Wood engraving.

1 map : engraving ; image and border 38.2 x 33 cm [partial]

Part of a map of the City of Westminster and the immediate environs. Engraving, 1764.

Sion College, London Wall, London: view of the north facade, with a man climbing a ladder to attend to a street lamp. Etching, 1800.

Caution : any person committing any annoyance or any nuisance whatever on any footway or foot-pavement, or on any road or way, within the District of the Hastings Local Board of Health.

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Men, women and children are using roller skates as a mode of transport around the streets. Wood engraving.

Part of a map of the City of Westminster and the immediate environs. Engraving, 1764.

Sion College, London Wall, London: view of the north facade, with a man climbing a ladder to attend to a street lamp. Etching, 1800.

A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.

Caution : any person committing any annoyance or any nuisance whatever on any footway or foot-pavement, or on any road or way, within the District of the Hastings Local Board of Health.

Streets

Images from the collections

Images referencing Streets

Works from the collections

Men, women and children are using roller skates as a mode of transport around the streets. Wood engraving.

Part of a map of the City of Westminster and the immediate environs. Engraving, 1764.

Sion College, London Wall, London: view of the north facade, with a man climbing a ladder to attend to a street lamp. Etching, 1800.

A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.

Caution : any person committing any annoyance or any nuisance whatever on any footway or foot-pavement, or on any road or way, within the District of the Hastings Local Board of Health.

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