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Concept

Fortification

Images

  • A ruler enthroned defending a fortress from the invading British. Gouache drawing.
  • Sarawak: interior of the Baram Fort. Photograph.
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.
  • Men sitting to smoke by the citadel of Jerusalem. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe after D. Roberts, 1841.
  • The Bastille, Paris. Line engraving by J.F. Borgnet after J.M. Gudin (?).
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Catalogue

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    • Online

    Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

    Lecomte, Hippolyte, 1781-1857. | Date: 1820 | Reference: 24451i
    • Pictures
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    Crimean War: a blazing battle in and around the harbour at Sevastopol, details of the French and English ships are given. Wood engraving, 1855.

    | Date: 14 April 1855 | Reference: 24466i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Dell' arte militare

    Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642) | Date: Middle 17th century | Reference: MS.299
    Part of: Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)
    • Pictures

    A doum palm tree (Hyphaene thebaica) on the African plains, sheltering 3 people. Wood engraving, c. 1873.

    | Date: [1873-1876] | Reference: 20966i
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    • Online

    Chaos in the aftermath of battle with the dead and wounded being attended to as the armies retreat. Engraving by J. J. Kleinschmidt after G. P. Rugendas I.

    Rugendas, Georg Philipp, 1666-1742. | Reference: 24446i
    Part of: Grosse Schlachtenszenen fuer Lothar Franz Graf von Schoenborn
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