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21 images from works
  • The blind school, Southwark. Coloured engraving by R. Acon, 1829, after T. H. Shepherd.
  • Guy's Hospital, Southwark: the entrance courtyard, with a patient being carried in on a stretcher. Engraving by W. Woolnoth, 1799, after J. Elmes.
  • The blind school, Southwark. Coloured engraving, 1813.
  • Two men, possibly students, carrying home a drunken doctor laid out on a door, verse below. Lithograph.
  • The blind school, Southwark. Engraving by H. Wallis after A. W. Wray.
  • Guy's Hospital, Southwark: the entrance courtyard, with a patient being carried in on a stretcher. Engraving by W. Woolnoth, 1799, after J. Elmes.
  • Sion College, London Wall, London: view of the north facade, with a man climbing a ladder to attend to a street lamp. Etching, 1800.
  • Guy's Hospital: the entrance courtyard, with a patient being carried in on a stretcher. Engraving.
  • Guy's Hospital, Southwark: the entrance courtyard, with a patient being carried in on a stretcher. Engraving.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth. Wood engraving, 184-.
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    The blind school, Southwark. Engraving.

    | Date: 1851 | Reference: 38855i
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    Sion College, London Wall, London: view of the north facade, with a man climbing a ladder to attend to a street lamp. Etching, 1800.

    Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833. | Date: 20 July 1800 | Reference: 23424i
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    Guy's Hospital, Southwark: the entrance courtyard, with a patient being carried in on a stretcher. Engraving by W. Woolnoth, 1799, after J. Elmes.

    Elmes, James, 1782-1862. | Date: 1 May 1799 | Reference: 38937i
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    Guy's Hospital, Southwark: the entrance courtyard, with a patient being carried in on a stretcher. Coloured engraving by W. , 1799, after J.

    | Date: 1799 | Reference: 38942i
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    The blind school, and, in the distance, Bethlem Hospital, Southwark. Coloured engraving by T. Albutt after [W.?] Read.

    | Reference: 38832i
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Related topics

London
Carriages and carts
Courtyards
Patients
Guy's Hospital
Incurable diseases - Hospitals
Guy, Thomas.
Schools
Horses
Bethlem Royal Hospital

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