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19 images from works
  • Samson carries the gates of Gaza out of the city. Woodcut.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Etching by A. Tardieu after Guilbaut.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with part of London Wall in the foreground, and a muck-raker scraping at the cobblestones. Etching by J. T. Smith, 1814, after himself, June 1812.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by W.H. Mote, 1846, after J. Franklin after J.F. Overbeck.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with part of London Wall in the foreground, and a muck-raker scraping at the cobblestones. Etching by J. T. Smith, 1814, after himself, June 1812.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by J. Dambrun, 1793, after J.M. Moreau.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Wood engraving by F. Obermann.
  • 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.
  • The Virgin of Mercy responding to the intercessions of saints by protecting people from arrows symbolising disease; the Devil rules below, where plague attacks the land. Lithograph after L. Dottorini after Benedetto Bonfigli, 1464 (?).
  • Antioch, Turkey: remains of the old walls of the city, following the slope of a mountain. Engraving by J.B. Liénard after L.F. Cassas.
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    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.

    Hippolyte Lecomte | Date: 1820 | Reference: 24451i
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    Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by J. Barlow.

    | Reference: 23716i
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    Horsemen assembled outside the city walls at Kabul, Afghanistan. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 27050i
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    Rebuilding of the walls of the City of London: King Alfred the Great, on horseback, visits the building site and gives an order to the master builder. Colour process print after F.O. Salisbury, 1912.

    Frank O. Salisbury | Date: [1912?] | Reference: 2970979i
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    The aged Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary, meets Joachim by the Golden Gate at Jerusalem. Engraving by H. Wierix.

    Hieronymus Wierix | Reference: 20982i
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Death
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Widows
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Resuscitation
Jesus Christ - Miracles
Sons
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