Sewer Gallery

The rat that withdrew from the world. Illustration of the Fable by Jean de La Fontaine

JLJ4663151 The rat that withdrew from the world. Illustration of the Fable by Jean de La Fontaine. Painting by Philippe Rousseau (1816 - 1887), 1885. Oil on canvas. Dim: 0, 81 X 1, 00m. Lyon, Musee Des Beaux Arts - The rat who retired from the world. Illustration for the Fable of Jean de La Fontaine. Painting by Philippe Rousseau (1816-1887), 1885. Oil on canvas. 0.81 x 1 m. Fine Arts Museum, Lyon, France by Rousseau, Philippe (1816-87); Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France; (add.info.: The rat that withdrew from the world. Illustration of the Fable by Jean de La Fontaine. Painting by Philippe Rousseau (1816 - 1887), 1885. Oil on canvas. Dim: 0, 81 X 1, 00m. Lyon, Musee Des Beaux Arts - The rat who retired from the world. Illustration for the Fable of Jean de La Fontaine. Painting by Philippe Rousseau (1816-1887), 1885. Oil on canvas. 0.81 x 1 m. Fine Arts Museum, Lyon, France); Photo A© Photo Josse; French, out of copyright

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Section of the Thames Embankment

A section of the Thames Embankment, taken by the Charing Cross railway bridge, showing; (1) the subway, designed to hold the gas pipes, the water pipes, perhaps the telegraph wires, (2) the low level sewer, (3) Metropolitan and District Railway and (4) the tubular structure through which the pneumatic railway is to proceed from Charing Cross, under the bed of the Thames, towards the Waterloo Road Station of the Southwestern Railway. Date: 1867

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Transformations of Paris under the Second Empire, Haussmann Paris

XEE4404833 Transformations of Paris under the Second Empire, Haussmann Paris. The sewer from the Strasbourg train station to the Seine: view taken from the grand room on the day of the inauguration of the boulevard de Sebastopol. Visit of General Espinasse Minister of the Interior in 1858. by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Transformations of Paris under the Second Empire, Haussmann Paris. The sewer from the Strasbourg train station to the Seine: view taken from the grand room on the day of the inauguration of the boulevard de Sebastopol. Visit of General Espinasse Minister of the Interior in 1858.); Stefano Bianchetti; French, out of copyright

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