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Jesus calls the fishermen from the sea to be his apostles. Etching by J. Wachsmuth after J.C. Tardieu and C.J. Vernet.

A young couple in sixteenth-century costume are sitting in a boat on the water, the man has a fishing rod in his hand. Chromotypograph after Louis Leloir.

A woman with shears holding a sheep; representing June. Engraving.

Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie.

Lourdes and Gave-de-Pau, Hautes Pyrénées, France: peasants fishing with the castle in the background. Lithograph, 1821, after M. Colston.

Well, St. Austell, Cornwall. Etching by J. Rowe, 1810, after S. Prout.

Crimean War, France: fishwomen carrying the luggage of nurses at Boulogne. Wood engraving by W. Thomas.

Fair Mount Water Works, Philadelphia: with Upper Ferry Bridge. Coloured engraving by Ferrer Sears & Co., 1830, C. Burton.

A landlord, while fishing, reads property advertisements in the newspaper and exclaims at the levels of rent being asked. Coloured lithograph by A.J.L. Jazet, 1843.

A beached basking shark lying next to a fishing trawler. Etching.

Sadler's Wells, with the New River running beside. Etching by F. W. Pailthorpe after R. C. Andrews, 1792.

Ship-building: two types of Japanese boat. Drawing by J. Smith, c.1833.

Rural life: nine scenes, including washerwomen, wood-cutters, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.

Rural life: seven scenes, including milking, gleaning, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.

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Crimean War, France: fishwomen carrying the luggage of nurses at Boulogne. Wood engraving by W. Thomas.

Sadler's Wells, with the New River running beside. Etching by F. W. Pailthorpe after R. C. Andrews, 1792.

Ship-building: two types of Japanese boat. Drawing by J. Smith, c.1833.

Rural life: nine scenes, including washerwomen, wood-cutters, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.

Rural life: seven scenes, including milking, gleaning, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.