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  • A mat-making couple. Gouache drawing.
  • A king holding court. Ink drawing.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • Basket weavers. Gouache drawing.
  • Page 159: two images of women in their traditional costume. Watercolour drawing.

Catalogue

    • Books

    Where India goes : abandoned toilets, stunted development and the costs of caste / Diane Coffey and Dean Spears.

    Coffey, Diane | Date: 2017
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    The ragged trousered philanthropists / Robert Tressell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Miles.

    Tressell, Robert, 1870-1911. | Date: 2005
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    An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

    Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. | Date: [ca, 1840?] | Reference: 20044i
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    Who shall be educated? : the challenge of unequal opportunities / W. Lloyd Warner, Robert J. Havighurst and Martin B. Loeb.

    Warner, W. Lloyd (William Lloyd), 1898-1970. | Date: [1946]
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    Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914 / Louise Hide Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

    Hide, Louise | Date: 2014
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