Self-contained unit of accommodation (house, apartment, mobile home, houseboat or other structure) used as a home

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Archaeology: famous houses of France. Mixed method engraving after A.M. Perrot.

Singapore: a large bungalow with people having drinks in the garden around a large traveller's palm (Ravenala madagascariensis) Photograph by J. Taylor, 1881.

Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.

A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.

The house of Abraham Cowley in Chertsey. Line engraving by J. Basire.

Singapore: a large bungalow for British officers with tropical plants in the garden. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1880.

The interior of a house on the island of Nootka Sound, British Columbia, Canada, with some of its inhabitants encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by W. Sharp, 1784, after J. Webber.

Sarawak: the supporting poles of a Kayan tribal house and a Sea Dayak house under construction. Photograph.

Surgeon John Norton's House, Golden Square, London, (top) and an advertisement for "his assistant & successor" John Hayman. Engraving by Long, 1786.

A house set amidst trees within a condom situated in a barren desert setting with the word 'preservation' suggesting condoms are as safe as houses; an illustration by T. F. Barbier from 1987 representing an advertisement for safe sex by the GSG, Groupe SIDA Genève. Colour lithograph.

A street scene with building work going on: an old man holds his cap out to a well-dressed man who refuses to help him. Lithograph by Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé.

Malaya: a magistrate's house located by a Malay beach. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1881.

A path bordered by flowerbeds leading to a cottage

Red and black house and three trees in a field with horizontal stripes in black, red and blue in the background

Group cooking on a campfire with caravan and donkey in background

A road, lined with pale blue houses, leading to an orange mountainside with houses built into it

A human figure with the head of a dog being blown away from the door of an orange house

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Dwellings

Images from the collections

Images referencing Dwellings

Works from the collections

A path bordered by flowerbeds leading to a cottage

Red and black house and three trees in a field with horizontal stripes in black, red and blue in the background

Group cooking on a campfire with caravan and donkey in background

A road, lined with pale blue houses, leading to an orange mountainside with houses built into it

A human figure with the head of a dog being blown away from the door of an orange house

Dwellings

Images from the collections

Images referencing Dwellings

Works from the collections

A path bordered by flowerbeds leading to a cottage

Red and black house and three trees in a field with horizontal stripes in black, red and blue in the background

Group cooking on a campfire with caravan and donkey in background

A road, lined with pale blue houses, leading to an orange mountainside with houses built into it

A human figure with the head of a dog being blown away from the door of an orange house

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