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  • Geography: Niagara Falls, seen from a distance. Coloured lithograph, ca.1890.
  • Oxford: Friar Bacon's study, with the river. Line engraving.
  • Hamburg, Germany: panoramic view. Tinted lithograph by W. Heuer.
  • Geography: a grouping of the highest mountains and waterfalls, and the longest rivers. Coloured mixed method engraving after C. V. Monin.
  • Saint Camillus de Lellis rescuing lives and offering shelter from the flooding Tiber, Rome. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.
  • Oxford: twelve views of the city as seen from the surrounding countryside or river. Aquatint.
  • City of Oxford: from the river and meadows. Line engraving.
  • Bains de Poitevin, Paris: public steam baths with ground plan. Engraving by Benard after J.R. Lucotte.
  • Aqueduct, Lisbon, Portugal: panoramic view over the Valley of Alcantra. Coloured line engraving by T. Bowles after R. Black.
  • Rivers running in the wilderness, with serpents and fire between them; representing the stage of 'multiplication' in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • Yangtze river, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Grimsel hospice at Ospital on the Grimselsee, near the source of the river Aar. Etching by Michel after J.J.F. Le Barbier.
  • A gentlemen's dinner looking out onto the river. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • Textiles: tapestry dyeing, a vat in an interior with dyers at work (top), washing cloth in a river (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Bains de Poitevin, Paris: public steam baths with ground plan. Engraving by Benard after J.R. Lucotte.
  • Gangā and the river Ganges falling from heaven, while Shiva waits below to stem the fall with Nandi bull, Parvati and the sage Jahnu. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • Birds of the river estuary shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Strasbourg, France: women washing clothes. Lithograph.
  • Yangtze river, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • A bridge over the river Aar near its source. Etching by E.A. Giraud after J.J.F. Le Barbier.
  • Crimean War: showing the strait Bosphorus and the hospital at Scutari, Turkey. Process print.
  • A jauari palm tree (Astrocaryum jauari Mart.) growing on a river bank in Guyana. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.
  • Bains Vigier, Pont Royal, Paris: the bathing house. Engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1837, after B. Ferrey.
  • Textiles: tapestry dyeing, two boilers (top), washing (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • St. Winifred's Well, Flintshire, Wales. Coloured line engraving.
  • City of Norwich, Norfolk. Line engraving.
  • The child Aaron being led away by Moses' father, after abandoning Moses in the bullrushes. Etching by C. Bouzonnet-Stella, 1672, after N. Poussin, 1654.
  • The controlled explosion of an underwater mine to clear rocks in the East River between Harlem and the Bronx, New York. Wood engraving.
  • Sadler's Wells and the New River, with the city in the background. Engraving by A. Cruse after B. Lens, 1730.
  • Krishna seated in a tree above a river with the gopis' clothes and making the gopis plead for their garments. Chromolithograph.