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A woman sitting on a chair making lace on a lace-pillow. Engraving by Thomas Sherratt after A.J. Woolmer.

An Indian man smoking a nariel, or cocoa nut hooka. Coloured stipple and line etching, c. 1804, after F. Solvyns.

Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: loading up the blanket bus in Gower Mews. Photograph, September 1918.

A torpid patient claims to his physician that his debility is a result of serving in the war. Coloured lithograph E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.

The angel, announcing the birth of Christ, gives a lily to the Virgin. Lithograph by F. Decraene after B. Murillo.

The adoration by the magi of Christ, shown as young and old. Etching by J. Basire the elder, 1794, after J. Carter, after a bas-relief in Long Melford church, Suffolk.

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Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: loading up the blanket bus in Gower Mews. Photograph, September 1918.

The adoration by the magi of Christ, shown as young and old. Etching by J. Basire the elder, 1794, after J. Carter, after a bas-relief in Long Melford church, Suffolk.

An Indian man smoking a nariel, or cocoa nut hooka. Coloured stipple and line etching, c. 1804, after F. Solvyns.

A torpid patient claims to his physician that his debility is a result of serving in the war. Coloured lithograph E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.

A woman sitting on a chair making lace on a lace-pillow. Engraving by Thomas Sherratt after A.J. Woolmer.