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Images from the collections

Images about Walls

14 images from works
  • Civil engineering: sections of various dock walls. Engraving, c.1861.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with part of London Wall in the foreground, and a muck-raker scraping at the cobblestones. Etching by J. T. Smith, 1814, after himself, June 1812.
  • Malta: view of Grand Harbour and buildings along Barriera wharf towards Fort Lascaris and Upper Barrakka. Photograph by H. Agius, c. 1881.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with part of London Wall in the foreground, and a muck-raker scraping at the cobblestones. Etching by J. T. Smith, 1814, after himself, June 1812.
  • Architecture: details of reinforced garden walls. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Horsemen assembled outside the city walls at Kabul, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Malaya: Fort Cornwallis on Penang Island. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1881.
  • Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital with medical staff and four tents. Collotype, 1904.
  • A bas-relief sculpture of a gardener, dated 1670. Line engraving, c. 1791.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with three people in the foreground. Etching by J. T. Smith after himself, 1814.
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Works from the collections

27 works

    • Archives and manuscripts

    "The tired man is exhausted"

    Bishop, Mary (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990 | Date: November 1970 | Reference: 2897621i / 2897622i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    A tree viewed from inside an arched opening in a brick wall

    Lewis, Muriel, active approximately 1967-1968 | Date: 14 December 1967 | Reference: PP/ADA/C/8/93/16
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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    Horsemen assembled outside the city walls at Kabul, Afghanistan. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 27050i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    "His kind of girl"

    Lewis, Muriel, active approximately 1967-1968 | Date: 11 March 1968 | Reference: 3000578i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    "Dream"'

    Gurr, Graham, active approximately 1976-1984 | Date: 10 August 1983 | Reference: 2971500i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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