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Ostend (Belgium)

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  • The British military expedition against the Bruges-Ostend canal, 1798: Joseph Jekyll M.P provides two different reports on it by telegraph, using rolled-up newspapers as telescopes. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1798.
  • A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.
  • A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.
  • A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.
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    Unerlässliches Handbuch für Badegäste zu Ostende : enthaltend Angabe aller Mittel, um von Seebädern den sichersten und besten Erfolg in jedem gegebenen Falle zu ziehen / von Heinrich Noppe.

    Noppe, Henri. | Date: 1856
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    A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.

    Bry, Auguste, 1805-1880. | Date: 1850 | Reference: 24890i
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    Unerlässliches Handbuch für Badegäste zu Ostende : enthaltend Angabe aller Mittel, um von Seebädern den sichersten und besten Erfolg in jedem gegebenen Falle zu ziehen / von Heinrich Noppe.

    Noppe, Henri. | Date: 1856
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    The British military expedition against the Bruges-Ostend canal, 1798: Joseph Jekyll M.P provides two different reports on it by telegraph, using rolled-up newspapers as telescopes. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1798.

    Gillray, James, 1756-1815. | Date: June 23rd 1798 | Reference: 36180i
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    A man stepping in to the cold sea at Ostend; to the left a female bathing assistant holds the hands of a woman. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry.

    Bry, Auguste, 1805-1880. | Date: [between 1850 and 1859?] | Reference: 35329i
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