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Horses

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Pachyderms

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Images about Horses

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  • With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.
  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • The road entering Bath from the south side of the bridge. Steel engraving by J.B. Allen, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.
  • St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Engraving after T. H. Shepherd.
  • The blind school, Southwark. Coloured engraving by R. Acon, 1829, after T. H. Shepherd.
  • Directions : when giving a ball hold in hand before fire until soft ... / Francis Cupiss Limited.
  • A doctor out hunting: attacked by the hounds, having fallen from his horse. Coloured etching by J.H., 1842.
  • Rama fighting with his sons with the help of Hanuman over a horse sacrifice. Watercolour drawing.
  • A Jain horsegroom with his wife offering him a betel leaf. Gouache drawing.
  • Brick-making: a young woman is pulling a large wheelbarrow full of clay while a boy tips a barrow load into a pug-mill, to which a horse is attached by a yoke. Coloured aquatint with etching after W.H. Pyne, 1805.
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Works from the collections

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    Panoramic view of Buxton with a key to the sights. Line engraving by Newman & Co.

    | Reference: 15768i
    • Pictures
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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
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Remarks on Major's influenza drinks / [J. Major].

    Major, J. | Date: [1900?]
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Equitation, Italy, 16th century

    | Date: Late 16th century | Reference: MS.7024
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Keep dry : per : carriage paid through : Messrs. Smith & Sons, 44 Magdalen Street, Norwich / from Francis Cupiss Ltd., The Wilderness, Diss.

    Francis Cupiss Ltd. | Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]
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Related topics

Veterinary Drugs
Carriages and carts
Horse Diseases
Dogs
Costume
Cattle
Soldiers
Veterinary Medicine
London
Hospitals

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