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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.

Boer War: wounded soldiers lying inside a hospital train. Halftone, c.1900.

Eight plants, including an orchid, a magnolia and a cactus: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

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

A plant (Monsonia speciosa): flowering stem and leaf Coloured engraving, c. 1789.

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.

Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

Work on a coffee plantation in Guatemala. Wood-engravings by G. Andrews, 1877, after E. Muybridge.

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Periodical illustrations

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Images of Periodical illustrations

Works from the collections

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

A plant (Monsonia speciosa): flowering stem and leaf Coloured engraving, c. 1789.

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.

Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

Work on a coffee plantation in Guatemala. Wood-engravings by G. Andrews, 1877, after E. Muybridge.

Periodical illustrations

Images from the collections

Images of Periodical illustrations

Works from the collections

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

A plant (Monsonia speciosa): flowering stem and leaf Coloured engraving, c. 1789.

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.

Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

Work on a coffee plantation in Guatemala. Wood-engravings by G. Andrews, 1877, after E. Muybridge.

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