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  • Peter walks on water towards Christ. Etching.
  • A man influenced by the fashion for hydropathy stands in the rain and encounters a friend. Lithograph, c. 1845.
  • Hydraulics: a lever-operated pump. Engraving by J. Cleghorn after C. Varley.
  • Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.
  • A boy drinking water from a dollar note: water sanitation in Kenya. Colour lithograph by AMREF, ca. 2000.
  • Geography: Niagara Falls, seen from a distance. Coloured lithograph, ca.1890.
  • Bagnigge Wells: the exterior, with heaps of wood and stone in the foreground. Etching by C. J. Smith, 1844.
  • Engineering: a steam engine. Engraving c.1861.
  • An elephant and a leopard confront each other on opposite sides of a stream in an Indian desert. Coloured lithograph by E. Leroux after A.-G. Decamps, 1853.
  • Agriculture: a Chinese rice plantation with workers sowing the rice, and operating a treadmill chain-bucket for water. Engraving by W. Weatherhead, c. 1840, after T. Allom.
  • Engineering: a portable pumping engine, used in Egypt. Coloured lithograph, [post 1875].
  • Saint John the Baptist baptises Christ; an angel with a book descends from above. Wood engraving by the Dalziel brothers, 1854, after W.O. Williams after Giotto.
  • Children hold a book up to a personified water droplet: sanitation campaign in Morocco. Colour lithograph by Moroccan Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Engineering: a pump for irrigating fields. Engraving, [post 1861].
  • God and two cherubs make water flow from the ass's jaw that Samson has used to kill the Philistines. Etching by B. Audran after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • Hydraulics: a water-wheel with a pressure relieving device, end elevation and plan. Engraving by J. B. Taylor after J. Pinchback.
  • Engineering: hydrostatics, illustrations of pressure gradients. Engraving.
  • Hydraulics: diagrams showing water pressure. Engraving by Mutlow, 1810, after J. Farey.
  • Engineering: a multi-cylinder steam engine. Engraving c.1861.
  • Hydraulics: pumps, and a steam-engine. Engraving by J. Moffat after J. Farey, ca. 1813.
  • Bagnigge Wells, London: two alluring, fashionably-dressed women, one plucking rosebuds. Mezzotint, 1780.
  • St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales. Line engraving.
  • Geography: water spouts at sea. Engraving by C. Heath after H. Salt.
  • In front of a grand palace, Moses draws water from a rock. Etching by J. Le Pautre.
  • A child drinking a glass of water: importance of treating water in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Moses draws water from the rock, and the Israelites quench their thirst. Etching by J. Le Pautre.
  • Hydraulics: three devices. Woodcut, 1659.
  • Hydraulics: diagrams of water pressure and capillary action. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1806.
  • Hydraulics: a lobed water-pump mechanism. Engraving by Mutlow after Blunt.
  • Hydraulics: three devices, including a pump, a clock, and a drinking fountain. Woodcut, 1659.