Items by Jackson,J.

Priot Bolton’s Garden-house at Canonbury

From the house we pass to the lawn, which is terminated by a wall with a raised and embowered terrace, from which we look over on the other side to the kitchen-garden, the New River, and thence onward [...]

Keywords: gardens

Places shown: Islington; London; England

Added: 2009-04-27

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1787.—Hunting.

Men hunting deer with dogs and horses. In the background a church steeple, reminding us that this is supposed to be a typical country scene.

Keywords: hunting, sport, animals, churches, wallpapers, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-26

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79.—Symbols of Rome.

“In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantr [...]

Keywords: weapons, mythology, animals, children, nudity

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-07-05

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1054.—Kelso.

“Among the less distinguished classes of monachism [sic, meaning monasticism] that also sprang out of the original Benedictine, may be mentioned that to which Kelso Abbey, in the town of Kelso, Roxbur [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, towers, people

Places shown: Kelso; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-08-16

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866.—Jean Froissart

Jean Froissart was a historian who lived from 1337 to 1410 (roughly).

Wood-Nuttal Encyclopædia entry for Jean Froissart

Keywords: people, portraits

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-12

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1056.—Jedburgh

“The Black Canons were introduced into Scotland about the same time as in England. One of their houses was at Jedburgh, the inmates [sic] of which came from Beauvais in France, early in the twelfth ce [...]

Keywords: abbeys, churches, ruins, christmas

Places shown: Jedburgh; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-09-12

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