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A woman who has fallen down a well being rescued by a man praying to Sansovino's Virgin and Child. Watercolour.

Malvern Wells, Great Malvern, Worcestershire. Wood engraving by W. Radclyffe after W.H. Wood.

The funeral of Mrs Susannah Wesley at Bunhill Fields, the Methodist cemetery: a key to the identities of the mourners. Etching.

Malvern, Great Malvern, Worcestershire: with a plan of the town. Lithograph.

Tunbridge Wells, Kent: view of the parade. Engraving by I. Taylor.

St Bernard's Well, Edinburgh, Scotland. Coloured line engraving by W. Poole.

Tunbridge Wells, Kent: panoramic view from Mount Emphraim. Tinted lithograph.

Well, St. Austell, Cornwall. Etching by J. Rowe, 1810, after S. Prout.

St. Bernard's Well, Edinburgh, Scotland. Line engraving by W. Byrne, 1803, after G. Walker.

St. Ann's Well, Great Malvern, Worcestershire. Etching.

Malvern, Great Malvern, Worcestershire: plan of town. Lithograph.

Island of Chios (Scio, Khio): a well in a garden. Etching by J. Dambrun after J.B. Hilair.

Page 62: a man quenching his thirst from a water carrier. Watercolour drawing.

St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales: interior. Etching by G. Cuitt, 1813.

At the desire of the proprietors of the new Iron Pear-Tree Water, and fully to satisfy the Public in this particular, I hearby declare... no public trial of the waters was made by us... / Erasmus King.

A bull resting in an enclosure outside a thatched cottage in England. Etching by R. Hills, 1802.

A letter from a clergy-man in the diocese of Bath and Wells, to another in London; in vindication of the Bishop of that diocese, from the calumnies and falsities cast on his Lordship; in a ... pamphlet, entitled, A letter to a clergy-man in the country, c

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Water Wells

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A letter from a clergy-man in the diocese of Bath and Wells, to another in London; in vindication of the Bishop of that diocese, from the calumnies and falsities cast on his Lordship; in a ... pamphlet, entitled, A letter to a clergy-man in the country, c

Water Wells

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Images featuring Water Wells

Works from the collections

A letter from a clergy-man in the diocese of Bath and Wells, to another in London; in vindication of the Bishop of that diocese, from the calumnies and falsities cast on his Lordship; in a ... pamphlet, entitled, A letter to a clergy-man in the country, c

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