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City and town life

Images

  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
  • The angel of death (a winged skeletal creature) drops some deadly substances into a river near a town; representing typhoid. Watercolour, 1912, after R. Cooper.
  • The Caelian hill, Rome, seen from the Palatine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.
  • The Palatine hill, Rome, seen from the Aventine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The town and a changing civilisation / by David V. Glass.

    Glass, D. V. (David Victor), 1911-1978. | Date: [1935]
    • Books

    Headspace : the psychology of city living / Paul Keedwell.

    Keedwell, Paul | Date: [2017]
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    People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

    Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957. | Reference: 24007i
    • Books

    The streets of London : from the great fire to the great stink / edited by Tim Hitchcock and Heather Shore ; forword by Roy Porter.

    | Date: 2003
    • Books

    The lonely city : adventures in the art of being alone / Olivia Laing.

    Laing, Olivia | Date: 2016
All works (38)

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