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Ruins of Lindisfarne Priory, in Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England more

abbeys, castles, windows, arches, ruins, people, clouds, bare feet, nudity, colour

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Image title: Ruins of Lindisfarne Priory
Source: Grose, Francis: “The Antiquities of England and Wales” (1783)
Place shown: Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England
Keywords: abbeys, castles, windows, arches, ruins, people, clouds, bare feet, nudity, colour
Status: out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested

Notes:

The caption reads, History Preserving the Monuments of Antiquity. The side View of Lindisfarne, or Holy Island Monastery, Northumberland. Pub. 25 May 1781 by S. Hooper The image is signed, S. Spurrow sc.

Death is represented as a naked winged man with a scythe, reaping away our past; History is a woman in a white dress, preventing him.

External link to a haunting picture of Lindisfarne Priory by S. Lowrey

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