Structure, typically enclosed with a roof and walls, standing more or less permanently in one place

Comédie-Française, Paris: a corridor used as a hospital in the Franco-Prussian War showing nurses treating patients. Photograph by Fiorillo after A. Brouillet, 1870.

The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: exterior view. Photograph, c.1932.

Divinity School, Oxford: interior of hall with coat of arms. Coloured engraving by D. Loggan after himself.

Divinity School, Oxford: great hall. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1837, after F. Mackenzie.

Christ Church, Oxford: interior of staircase leading to the hall. Etching by A.L. Brunet Debaines.

Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, Hampshire: hall. Coloured etching by J. Le Keux after O. Carter.

Magdalen College, Oxford: new hall. Lithograph.

Christ Church, Oxford: interior of hall. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1833, after F. Mackenzie.

The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: frontage during final stages of construction by Trollope & Colls, 1931. Photograph.

Christ Church, Oxford: halls of residence. Wood engraving by J. Walmsley, 1866, after J. Gascoine after T.N. Deane.

Building: specimens of decorative brickwork. Engraving.

A path bordered by flowerbeds leading to a cottage

1 print : line engraving ; image 11.3 x 15.1 cm

1 drawing watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper

A road, lined with pale blue houses, leading to an orange mountainside with houses built into it

Head and shoulders of a man, and the exterior of a building, on a piece of folded paper

Houses with onion-domes floodlit among tower blocks

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A path bordered by flowerbeds leading to a cottage

Christ Church, Oxford: interior of hall. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1833, after F. Mackenzie.

A road, lined with pale blue houses, leading to an orange mountainside with houses built into it

Head and shoulders of a man, and the exterior of a building, on a piece of folded paper

Houses with onion-domes floodlit among tower blocks

Buildings

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A path bordered by flowerbeds leading to a cottage

Christ Church, Oxford: interior of hall. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1833, after F. Mackenzie.

A road, lined with pale blue houses, leading to an orange mountainside with houses built into it

Head and shoulders of a man, and the exterior of a building, on a piece of folded paper

Houses with onion-domes floodlit among tower blocks

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