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Civil engineering: the Conway box girder bridge, viewed from entrance level. Coloured lithograph by G. Hawkins after himself.

St John's Gate, Clerkenwell, London: the south side. Engraving by J. Peltro.

Architecture: an assortment of masons tools, blocks of stone, and a folding rule. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].

A ruined gateway, with weeds growing out of the top of the piers, labelled in a blind central window: "Greenwich Hospital". Pen drawing with wash.

The building of a ziggurat, perhaps the Tower of Babel; bricks are burned and chiselled. Etching.

Architecture: an assortment of arches, and blocks of stone. Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.

Architecture: an assortment of arches, a block of stone, and a pair of dividers. Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.

An ornate stone frame in which four atlantes support an entablature on which a scholar and Hercules support the globe of the earth. Engraving, 1569.

Civil engineering: one of the piers of the Hungerford Bridge, London. Lithograph.

St Bartholomew's Priory, London: a vaulted passage. Etching by J. Storer, 1804.

Architecture: tessellated ceilings, roof timbers, and coffers. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].

Architecture: setting out diagrams for stone arches, and a catenary. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].

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Architecture: tessellated ceilings, roof timbers, and coffers. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].

Architecture: an assortment of arches, a block of stone, and a pair of dividers. Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.

St John's Gate, Clerkenwell, London: the south side. Engraving by J. Peltro.

Architecture: an assortment of masons tools, blocks of stone, and a folding rule. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].

Architecture: setting out diagrams for stone arches, and a catenary. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].