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Images about Swimmers

6 images from works
  • Bathers at the banks of the Jordan river, with Achmet Aga, the governor of Jerusalem, with his guards, looking on. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.
  • Nine popular sports practitioners. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Swimmers, officials and spectators at the Paris Olympics. Photographic postcard by A. Pétin, 1924.
  • Swimmers, officials and spectators at the Paris Olympics. Photographic postcard by A. Pétin, 1924.
  • Boys bathing in the river by the playing fields, Eton College, Berkshire. Line engraving by J.T. Willmore after J.D. Harding.
  • Nine popular sports practitioners. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Works from the collections

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    Boys bathing in the river by the playing fields, Eton College, Berkshire. Line engraving by J.T. Willmore after J.D. Harding.

    Harding, James Duffield, 1798-1863. | Reference: 17521i
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    Bathers at the banks of the Jordan river, with Achmet Aga, the governor of Jerusalem, with his guards, looking on. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.

    Roberts, David, 1796-1864. | Date: [1843] | Reference: 36248i
    Part of: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia
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    Swimmers, officials and spectators at the Paris Olympics. Photographic postcard by A. Pétin, 1924.

    | Date: 1924 | Reference: 2046147i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
    • Books

    Leap in : a woman, some waves and the will to swim / Alexandra Heminsley.

    Heminsley, Alexandra, 1976- | Date: 2017
    • Books

    Turning : a swimming memoir / Jessica J. Lee.

    Lee, Jessica J., 1986- | Date: 2017

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Swimming

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