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Bird's-eye view prints

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Images of Bird's-eye view prints

116 images from works
  • Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch, Southgate, Middlesex: bird's eye view with detailed floor plan and key. Wood engraving by Laing after Daukes.
  • The Pool of Bethesda, Jerusalem, Israel. Coloured lithograph by D. Roberts, 1839.
  • Jesus College, Cambridge: bird's eye view with a key and coat of arms. Line engraving.
  • The Temple of Solomon: aerial view, with flames billowing from the sacrificial altar. Wood engraving.
  • The bath house and cold baths of Bungay, Suffolk with a description of the baths. Line engraving.
  • Gloucester Infirmary, England: with floor plan and printed text. Wood engraving.
  • The plain of Troy. Engraving by W. Skelton.
  • Mexico: reconstruction of the teocal (Aztec pyramidal temple) of Cholula. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1820.
  • Southwark, London: map of the borough with key. Etching, 1755.
  • Leiden pest house, bird's-eye view. Etching.
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    Higham-Ferrers College, Northampton, England. Etching by S. & N. Buck, 1729.

    | Date: 1729 | Reference: 18069i
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    Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

    Scotin, Gérard Jean-Baptiste, II, 1698-1733. | Reference: 21893i
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    The city of Bologna. Engraving by M. Merian, 164-.

    Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650. | Date: [between 1640 and 1649?] | Reference: 2992652i
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    The plain of Troy. Engraving by W. Skelton.

    | Date: [1824?] | Reference: 2143637i
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    Bethlehem. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.

    Roberts, David, 1796-1864. | Date: [1843] | Reference: 36793i
    Part of: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia
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