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Keith Marshall; Christmas Daffodils; 2024
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Elizabeth II (1926-2022)
Photograph by Joel Rouse, Ministry of Defence, 2015
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William Byrd (c.1540-1623)
18th-century engraving
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James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
Engraving by GJ Stodart from a photograph by Fergus of Greenock
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Edward Jenner (1749-1823)
Wellcome Collection
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William Caxton (1421-1491)
19th-century etching
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George Stephenson (1781-1848)
Portrait by Atkinson after Lucas, 1849
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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
The University of Texas at Austin
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John Harrison (1693-1776)
Engraving by Philippe Joseph Tassaert, 1768
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