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407 images from works
  • The Physic Garden, Chelsea: a view showing the pair of cedar trees, and the statue of Sloane in the centre of the garden. Lithograph by H. Warren after J. Fuge.
  • Astronomy: the surface of the moon. Engraving.
  • A brown bear climbing up a tree. Etching by J. Tookey after J. C. Ibbetson.
  • Muscle Innervation
  • Japanese maple (Acer palmatum): branch with leaves. Watercolour.
  • City of Oxford: view from the river. Etching by Letitia Byrne.
  • The shepherds observe the newly-born Jesus Christ. Etching by Annibale Carracci, ca. 1606.
  • Hyde Park, near Kensington Palace: ladies and children drinking from a spring and eating a picnic. Engraving by J. Godby, 1802, after Mary Spilsbury.
  • An incantatory ceremony in a village watched by men with spears. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, ca. 1920.
  • Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.
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    Gardens: a gardener tying the trunks of young trees to support posts. Engraving.

    | Reference: 496889i
    • Books

    Ozone pollution : impacts of carbon sequestration in Europe / Harry Harmens and Gina Mills, editors.

    | Date: 2012
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Scene of various birds in a garden

    Rowlands, Gwyneth, 1915-2009 | Date: c.1960s-1970s | Reference: PP/ADA/C/8/134/57
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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    Pittville Spa from the river and grounds, Cheltenham. Line engraving by W. Radclyffe after G. Dinsdale.

    Dinsdale, George, active 1808-1829. | Reference: 16655i
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    Jak tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus) with fruit in the Society Islands. Pen drawing.

    | Reference: 22094i
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