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  • Jesuit observatory, Beijing, China: bronze astronomical instruments displayed on decorative stands. Photograph, ca. 1860.
  • Jesuit observatory, Beijing, China: bronze astronomical instruments with decorative bronze dragons. Photograph, ca. 1860.
  • Jesuit observatory, Beijing, China: bronze astronomical instruments with decorative bronze dragons. Photograph, ca. 1860.
  • The promenade leading to the Observatory, Baths, and Library, Clifton, Bristol. Steel engraving by W. Wallis after himself, 1836.
  • The Royal Observatory, Greenwich Hill, seen from below. Coloured aquatint after T. H. Shepherd, 1824.
  • The Royal Observatory, Greenwich Hill, top, and the view of Greenwich and London seen from the hill, below. Coloured engraving, 1723.
  • The Old (now 'La Specola') and New Observatories, Florence, Italy. Reproduction of a pen drawing by A. Pochini.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. Engraving by H. Hulsbergh after C. Campbell, 1715.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with houses either side, ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1745.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, the river front vista, with the Queens' House and Royal Observatory in the distance: many people walking about. Engraving by J. Newton after T. Lancey.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, small houses either side. Engraving by J. Boydell after himself, 1753.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. Engraving, c. 1708, by J. B. Bruhl.
  • The promenade leading to the Observatory, Baths, and Library, Clifton, Bristol. Steel engraving by W. Wallis after himself, 1836.
  • India: a ruined observatory and battery with distant view of Hindoo Rao's house. Photograph by F. Beato.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving by T. Higham, 1843, after G. Moore.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, the river front vista, with the Queens' House and Royal Observatory in the distance: many people walking about. Engraving by J. Newton after T. Lancey.
  • Jesuit observatory, Beijing, China: astronomical instruments on display. Photograph, ca. 1860.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: with the statue of King George II in place. Engraving.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. Engraving.
  • Jesuit observatory, Beijing, China: bronze astronomical instruments with decorative bronze dragons. Photograph, ca. 1860.
  • Greenwich, with people in the foreground, London in the distance. Engraving by H. Wallis after J. Philips.
  • Oxford: cityscape view from the north. Etching by J. Whessell, 1825, after himself.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. Engraving by J. Kip, 1720.
  • London, seen from beside Flamsteed House in Greenwich park. Lithograph by T. S. Boys after himself, 1842.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. Engraving, 1699.
  • Galileo Galilei: panorama of the city of Florence seen from the Torre del Gallo (Count Galletti's museum of Galileo) outside Florence. Process print.
  • Top, the house where Isaac Newton was born, Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire; centre, a letter written by Isaac Newton from Trinity College Cambridge, 20 June 1682; bottom, interior of the observatory in Newton's house on St. Martin's Street, London. Etching by C.J. Smith, 1836.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with houses either side, ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles, 1745.
  • Galileo Galilei: the Torre del Gallo and Villa Galletti with the old Galileo observatory in Arcetri. Process print.
  • The Royal Observatory, Greenwich Hill. Engraving.