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  • Men resting their camels and smoking by Jacob's Well at Shechem, Palestine. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe after D. Roberts, 1839.
  • Malaya: a white hunter resting in the shade as native Malays wait nearby in long grass. Pen drawing by J. Taylor, c. 1879.
  • An ambulance corps at work in the field. Halftone.
  • Malaya: a line of white men out hunting accompanied by native Malays. Transfer lithograph after J. Taylor, c. 1879.
  • Burma: a wounded political officer being carried on a stretcher. Wood engraving by P. Naumann, 1889, after W.B. Wollen.
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    Men resting to smoke by the ruins of Baalbeck, Lebanon. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe after D. Roberts, 1839.

    Roberts, David, 1796-1864. | Date: [1843] | Reference: 25479i
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    An ambulance corps at work in the field. Halftone.

    | Reference: 24324i
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    Men resting their camels and smoking by Jacob's Well at Shechem, Palestine. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe after D. Roberts, 1839.

    Roberts, David, 1796-1864. | Date: [1842] | Reference: 25481i
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    Shooting skirmish below mountains, Afghanistan. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 27038i
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    A Scotsman with a rifle, sword and shield guarding barrels (of tobacco?). Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.

    | Reference: 25012i
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