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Jesus calls the fishermen from the sea to be his apostles. Etching by J. Wachsmuth after J.C. Tardieu and C.J. Vernet.

Two fisherman are standing on a beach with their catch including skate and lobster. Lithograph.

Crimean War, France: fishwomen carrying the luggage of nurses at Boulogne. Wood engraving by W. Thomas.

A large family of fisher folk in Naples are gathered together around a fishing boat. Coloured lithograph by Gatti & Dura.

A fishing boat drawn up on to the beach at Scheveningen, surrounded by fishermen and a fishwife selling fish to customers. Etching by C. Weisbrod and engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1779, after P. Bout.

Three interlinked scenes of a fisherman with his nets, Cupid pointing an arrow at a young couple who are contemplating marriage and a physician. Etching.

Two fishermen are out in their boat, one is rowing and the other is looking at a lobster caught in the creel. Wood engraving by E. Bure after J.C. Hook.

A fisherman who has AIDS hauling in a net of fish from his boat as his female partner stands holding a fish in one hand while balancing a large bowl of fish on her head within a red and turquoise dotted decorative border; with the message who will catch the fish (when he has died?); an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph for Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.

A Japanese fisherman on a lake shore pulling in his nets. Watercolour, c.1860.

Fishermen at Brighton, and women outside a bathing hut at Brighton. Lithograph after L. Parez.

The sea at Marseilles: fishermen near a jetty and a round tower. Engraving by J. Aliamet after C.J. Vernet.

Soap ephemera. Box 3.

Jesus calls James and John from their boat; their father Zebedee stands behind them. Woodcut.

An Italian landscape: a man fishing with a rod and line in a river with rocky heights behind. Etching by F. Giuntotardi, 1813, after G. Poussin.

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The sea at Marseilles: fishermen near a jetty and a round tower. Engraving by J. Aliamet after C.J. Vernet.

Soap ephemera. Box 3.

Crimean War, France: fishwomen carrying the luggage of nurses at Boulogne. Wood engraving by W. Thomas.

Jesus calls James and John from their boat; their father Zebedee stands behind them. Woodcut.

An Italian landscape: a man fishing with a rod and line in a river with rocky heights behind. Etching by F. Giuntotardi, 1813, after G. Poussin.