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Periodical illustrations

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Images from the collections

Images of Periodical illustrations

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  • Boer War: wounded soldiers being escorted off the hospital train at Durban from Ladysmith. Watercolour by F. Dadd, 1899.
  • Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna): flowering plants growing in woodland. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • The interior and exterior of a working brewhouse. Engraving, c. 1747.
  • Harvest time in a hop-garden at Farnham, Surrey. Wood-engraving, c. 1835.
  • Chang Yu-sing the Chinese giant, with his wife, King-Foo and Chung Mow, a dwarf. Wood engraving, 1865.
  • A flowering alpine milkwort (Polygala chamaebuxus var. grandiflora). Chromolithograph, c. 1878, after H. Moon.
  • A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
  • Boer War: the reading-room at the field hospital, Wynberg, South Africa. Halftone, 1900, after R. Thomas.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers bringing in the wounded to an open air Japanese field hospital. Wash drawing by G. Soper, 1904, after a photograph by J. Ruddiman Johnston.
  • Boer War: the grave of men of the Naval Brigade who were killed in the battle of Graspan. Halftone, c. 1899, after H. E. Miles.
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Works from the collections

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    A houseleek (Sempervivum arachnoideum): flowering plant. Coloured engraving, c. 1788.

    | Date: 1788 | Reference: 25807i
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    A plant (Monsonia speciosa): flowering stem and leaf Coloured engraving, c. 1789.

    | Date: 1 February 1789 | Reference: 25812i
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    The evolution of a fox riding a goose into a writer seated at his typewriter (or a pianist?) - which in turn evolves into accordion, bellows, money-bag, and handcuffs; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.

    Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867. | Date: 1863 | Reference: 12101i
    Part of: The origin of species, dedicated by natural selection to Dr. Charles Darwin
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    Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

    | Date: 1834 | Reference: 27454i
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    Work on a coffee plantation in Guatemala. Wood-engravings by G. Andrews, 1877, after E. Muybridge.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 20 October 1877 | Reference: 25225i
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Related topics

Botany
Plants, Cultivated
Plants, Ornamental
Flowers
Horticulture
Orchidaceae
Soldiers
South African War, 1899-1902
Hospitals, Military
South Africa

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