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Life on board a container ship – in pictures
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What should you keep your eyes on the skies for in 2026? Discover this year's standout moments with Royal Observatory astronomers
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Second Opium War: Battle of Fatshan Creek, 1857
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Studies of sails (Drawing)
Sketch of the profile of a female head (Drawing)
View into a room with long dining table and benches and a large fireplace (Drawing)
Right-hand side of a landscape sketch with a fort on a hill on a river in China (continued from previous page) (Drawing)
Slight sketch of a figure of a sailor using flag signals (on reverse) (Drawing)
Slight sketch of two figures seated at a piano (Drawing)
Slight sketch of a head and shoulders (on reverse) (Drawing)
Slight sketch of rooftops of a town (on reverse) (Drawing)
Study of the structure of the head and shoulders of a figure (Drawing)
Right-hand side of slight sketch of view of distant buildings among trees (continued from previous page) (Drawing)
Study of a head (Drawing)
Sketch of two houses, with inscription (Drawing)
Sketch of the Cheshire cat, from Alice in Wonderland in a tree (Drawing)
Left-hand side of river landscape sketch with buildings on bank (on reverse and continued onto next page) (Drawing)
Unidentified scribbles (Drawing)
Second half of a landscape study, possibly of a village named Hawkedon, (continued from previous page) (Drawing)
Left-hand side of landscape sketch of mountains beside water (continued onto next page) (Drawing)
Sir John Corbett Sketchbook, ca.1857 (Sketchbook)
Shanghai harbour, 1861, crowded with shipping including sampans (continued from PAI1353) (Drawing)
Sketch of scene on Chusan Island, mountains and trees, with colour notes (Drawing)
Right-hand side of a river landscape sketch with a fort and inscription, 'Fort taken 1st June 1857 near Hyacinth Isld.' (continued from previous page) (Drawing)
Study of the ruins of the temple of the Parthenon in Greece, inscribed (Drawing)
Right-hand side of sketch of Junks in Fatshan Creek with inscription (continued from previous page) (Drawing)
Sketch of Rio Harbour, Rio de Janeiro (continued from PAI1359) (Drawing)
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