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The age of Charles I: painting in England, 1620-1649: [catalogue of an exhibition held at the Tate Gallery, 15 November 1972 - 14 January 1973].

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London, Tate Gallery Publications, 1972.

1972

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The engraved works, of Sir Joshua Reynolds; a catalogue raisonné of the engravings made after his paintings from 1755-1822, with descriptions of the states of each plate, biographical sketches of the persons represented, a list of pictures which have been engraved, names of the possessors, and other particulars. New, enl. ed. with addition of plates and an index.

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Amsterdam, G. W. Hissink [1973]

1973-1884

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMDG (Reynolds) 74-1313Item locationSchwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308
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Early Victorian portraits. [Catalogue]

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London, H. M. Stationery Office, 1973.

1973

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMAVY (London) 75-420 v. 2Item locationOffsite
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John Hamilton Mortimer A. R. A., 1740-1779: paintings, drawings, and prints.

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[London, Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, 1968]

1968

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Early Georgian portraits / John Kerslake.

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London : H.M. Stationery Off., 1977.

1977

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMAVY+ (London) 79-480 v. 2Item locationSchwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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The Royal College of Physicians of London: portraits.

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London, J. & A. Churchill, 1964-77.

1964-1977

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFM 79-60 v. 2Item locationOffsite

A catalogue of engraved legal portraits, views, and trials. For sale by Sweet & Maxwell, Ltd., London, 1903.

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[London, 1903]

1903

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMDZ 78-2265Item locationSchwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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National Portrait Gallery in colour / edited by Richard Ormond ; with an introd. by John Hayes.

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New York : St. Martin's Press, 1979.

1979

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMAVY (London) 80-571Item locationOffsite

Dictionary of British portraiture / edited by Richard Ormond and Malcolm Rogers ; with a foreword by John Hayes.

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New York : Oxford University Press, c1979-1981.

1979-1981

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Pre-Raphaelite portraits / Andrea Rose.

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Yeovil, Somerset, England : Oxford Illustrated Press ; Newbury Park, Calif. : Distributed by Haynes Publications, c1981.

1981

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Catalogue of the portraits in Christ's, Clare and Sidney Sussex Colleges / by J. W. Goodison.

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Cambridge, England : [University of Cambridge], 1985.

1985

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A face for any occasion : some aspects of portrait engraving / Sara Stevenson.

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[Edinburgh] : Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, 1976.

1976

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The Royal Society catalogue of portraits / by Norman H. Robinson ; with biographical notes by Eric G. Forbes.

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London : The Society, 1980.

1980

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMAVZ (London) 86-4534Item locationSchwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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The British face : a view of portraiture 1625-1850 : Colnaghi, 19th February to 29th March, 1986.

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London : P & D Colnaghi, c1986.

1986

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Eye to eye : a new look at old portraits / Duncan Thomson.

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Edinburgh : Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, 1980.

1980

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJAY C-218Item locationOffsite

The National Portrait Gallery at Bodelwyddan Castle / Susan Foister.

Book/Text

London : National Portrait Gallery Publications, 1988.

1988

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The Georgians : eighteenth-century portraiture & society / Desmond Shawe-Taylor.

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London : Barrie & Jenkins, 1990.

1990

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The Martial face : the military portrait in Britain, 1760-1900 : an exhibition by the Department of Art, Brown University, January 26-March 3, 1991, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Book/Text

Providence, R.I. : The University, c1991.

1991

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The British portrait, 1660-1960 / with an introductory essay by Sir Roy Strong and contributions from Brian Allen ... [et al.].

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Woodbridge, Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club, 1991.

1991

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FormatBook/TextCall number3-MBT 92-10107Item locationSchwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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The National Portrait Gallery collection / by Susan Foister ... [et al.] ; with an introduction by John Hayes.

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London : National Portrait Gallery Publications ; New York, NY, U.S.A. : Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, c1988.

1988

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FormatBook/TextCall number3-MAVZ+ (London) 89-24508Item locationSchwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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The English face / David Piper ; edited by Malcolm Rogers.

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London : National Portrait Gallery, 1992.

1992

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Leaving portraits from Eton College : Dulwich Picture Gallery, 18 July-20 October 1991.

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[London : The Gallery, 1991]

1991

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FormatBook/TextCall number3-MBT 94-9960Item locationSchwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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Portraits, memoirs, and characters of remarkable persons from the reign of Edward the Third to the Revolution : collected from the most authentic accounts extant / by James Caulfield.

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London : Printed for R.S. Kirby, 1813

1813

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FormatBook/TextCall numberAGH (Caulfield, J. Portraits, memoirs, and characters of remarkable persons. 1813) v. 3Item locationOffsite
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Calcographiana: the printsellers chronicle and collectors guide to the knowledge and value of engraved British portraits.

Book/Text

London, G. Smeeton, and sold by J. Caulfield, 1814.

1814

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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOF (Caulfield, J. Calcographiana: the printseller's chronicle and collector's guide)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Effigies of the most famous English writers from Chaucer to Johnson, exhibited at the Grolier club, New-York, December, 1891.

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[New York, The De Vinne press, 1891]

1891

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FormatBook/TextCall numberA p.v. 232 no. 1-11Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Catalogue of an highly interesting collection of engraved British portraits, (including a few foreign), connected with the history and literature of Great Britain, the British colonies, and the United States of America, &c., &c ... Now on sale at prices affixed by John Stenson ....

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London, S. and J. Brawn [186-?]

186

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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOF (Stenson, John, firm, printsellers, London. Catalogue of an highly interesting collection of engraved British portraits)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The national portrait gallery of illustrious and eminent personages, chiefly of the nineteenth century. With memoirs, by W. Cooke Taylor ....

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London, P. Jackson [1846-48]

1846-1848

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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOF (Taylor, W. C. National portrait gallery of illustrious and eminent personages) v. 3-4Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOF (Taylor, W. C. National portrait gallery of illustrious and eminent personages) v. 1-2Item locationOffsite

A catalogue of the very valuable collection of British portraits ... the property of the late eminent amateur James Bindley ... Which will be sold at auction, by Mr. Sotheby ....

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London, Wright and Murphy, printers [1819]

1819

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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOF (Bindley, J. Catalogue of the very valuable collection of British portraits)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Catalogue of the first [-third] special exhibition of national portraits ... on loan to the South Kensington museum. April 1866 [-April 13, 1868]

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London, Printed by Strangeways and Walden [1866-68]

1866-1868

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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOF (Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington, Eng. Catalogue of the first [-third] special exhibition of national portraits. (3 v. in 2)) v. 3 Exhibition 1868Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Catalogue of the first [to third] exhibition[s] of national portraits ... on loan to the South Kensington Museum ...

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London, Printed by Strangeways and Walden [1866-68]

1866-1868

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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOF (Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington, Eng. Catalogue of the first [-third] special exhibition of national portraits. (3 v. in 1)) v. 1-3 Exhib. REV. ED.Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The biographical mirrour, comprising a series of ancient and modern English portraits, of eminent and distinguished persons, from original pictures and drawings.

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London, S. and E. Harding, 1795-[1802]

1795-1802

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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOO (Biographical mirrour) v. 3 (A.L.A. Index)Item locationOffsite
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Catalogue of the exhibition of portraits : on loan in the New Galleries of Art, Corporation Buildings.

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Glasgow : William Munro, 1868.

1868

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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOE p.v. 1 no. 1- 11Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315
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Portrait sketches of the public characters of Calcutta, published in the "India Review", "India Medical"... from 1838 to 1850.

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[Calcutta? : s.n., between 1863 and 1880].

1863-1880

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FormatBook/TextCall numberBGR (Grant, C. Portrait sketches of the public characters of Calcutta)Item locationOffsite

The University portraits; compiled by D. Talbot Rice. Biographies by Peter McIntyre.

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Edinburgh, Published for the University Court by the University Press, 1957.

1957

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FormatBook/TextCall numberD-11 2777Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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The Royal College of Physicians : portraits / edited by Gordon Wolstenholme, the portraits described by David Piper.

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Churchill, 1964.

1964

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FormatBook/TextCall numberF-11 634Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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A collection of portraits to illustrate Granger's Biog. hist. of England and Noble's continuation to Granger : forming a supplement to Richardson's copies of rare Granger portraits.

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London : T. and H. Rodd, 1820-1822.

1820-1822

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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOO+ (Collection of portraits to illustrate Granger's Biog. hist. of England) v. 1-2Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOO+ (Collection of portraits to illustrate Granger's Biog. hist. of England) v. 1-2Item locationOffsite

Portraits of illustrious persons in English history / drawn by G. P. Harding from original pictures; with biographical and historical notices by Thomas Moule.

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London : J. R. Smith, 1869.

1869

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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOO++ (Harding, G. P. Portraits of illustrious persons in English history)Item locationOffsite

Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain. Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country. With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions by Edmund Lodge, Esq. F.S.A ...

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London, Harding and Lepard, 1835.

1835

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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOO+ (Lodge, E. Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain) v. 11-12Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOO+ (Lodge, E. Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain) v. 9-10Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOO+ (Lodge, E. Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain) v. 7-8Item locationOffsite

[The drawing-room portrait gallery of eminent personages. Principally from photographs by Mayall in Her Majesty's private collection, and from the studios of the most celebrated photographers in the kingdom. Engraved on steel by D.J. Pound. With memoirs by the most able authors ...

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London, 1858-63]

1858-1863

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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOO++ ([Drawing-room portrait gallery of eminent personages]) v. 2Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOO++ ([Drawing-room portrait gallery of eminent personages]) v. 1Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberAOO++ ([Drawing-room portrait gallery of eminent personages]) 1860Item locationOffsite

Australian scrapbook.

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[Melbourne? 18--]

18

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FormatBook/TextCall numberBHH+++ (Australian scrapbook)Item locationOffsite

The National Portrait Gallery / by Charles Saumarez Smith.

Book/Text

London : National Portrait Gallery Publications, 1997.

1997

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FormatBook/TextCall number3-MAVZ (London) 97-12484Item locationSchwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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Yanks paint Brits : from Benjamin West to Nelson Shanks, from King George III to the Princess of Wales : [exhibition] April 24 to June 28, 1996 / Gregory Hedberg.

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New York, N.Y. : Hirschl & Adler Galleries, c1996.

1996

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FormatBook/TextCall number3-MCW 97-11680Item locationSchwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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Catalogue. Compiled and arr. by Major Sir Algernon Tudor-Craig.

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London, United Grand Lodge of England, 1938.

1938

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSKM (Freemasons. England. United grand lodge. Library and museum. Catalogue)Item locationOffsite

A catalogue [of the collections of Samuel Tyssen] ... which will be sold by auction, by Leigh, Sotheby and Son ...

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[London] Nichols and Son, printers [1801-02]

1801-1802

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FormatBook/TextCall number*GO (Tyssen, S. Catalogue)Item locationOffsite

Exhibition of English literary portraits, Grolier Club ... Nov. 4-19-1898.

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[New York, The De Vinne Press, 1898]

1898

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FormatBook/TextCall number3-AOE p.v. 2 no. 1- 8Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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FormatBook/TextCall number8-*KP (Grolier) (Grolier Club, New York. Exhibition of English literary portraits)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KP (Grolier) (Grolier Club, New York. Catalogue of etchings and drawings by Charles Méryon)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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The pictures and plate of the R.E. Headquarter Mess, Chatham ...

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Chatham, Royal Engineers Institute, 1909.

1909

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FormatBook/TextCall numberVWZH (Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham. Pictures and plate of the R.E. Headquarter Mess, Chatham)Item locationOffsite

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