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City walls

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  • 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.
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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.

    Lecomte, Hippolyte, 1781-1857. | 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.

    Salisbury, Frank O. (Frank Owen), 1874-1962. | 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.

    Wierix, Jeronimus, 1553-1619. | Reference: 20982i
    Part of: Vita divae Mariae virginis.
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