Items matching buildings

Leys Street.

An old (undated) photograph of Laystraat in Antwerp. I can see signs for the Norwich Union, and for a large hotel (Metropole?) and also for F. Dierckx.

Keywords: cities, buildings, street scenes, old photogrphs, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Antwerp; Belgium

Added: 2007-08-15

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Timber Houses, Coventry

Timber was largely used in the construction of houses, some speciments of which yet remain, the most celebrated being parts of Crosby Hall, in Bishopsgate, London. Coventry also contains some fine and [...]

Keywords: buildings, architecture

Places shown: Coventry; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2008-03-10

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4.—View on the Grand Canal

The Grand Canal, Venice; the Canal Grande is the largest canal in Venice.

Keywords: water, canals, colour, cities, buildings

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-05-22

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63.—Bronze Well-Head by Alberghetti—Courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale.

“Marco tells of magnificent feasts made by the Great Kaan on his birthday and on New Year’s Day. He delights in stories of the chase within the domain of Cublay’s palace of Chandu (perhaps the Xanadu [...]

Keywords: statuary, fountains, courtyards, architecture, buildings, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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Mermaid Street, Rye

Another old street is Mermaid Street, with its famous inn of that name and its beautiful timbered hospital In this street lived Samuel Jeakes, a well-known Rye worthy, born in 1623; he was a lawyer an [...]

Keywords: drawings, streets, buildings

Places shown: Rye; Sussex; England

Added: 2008-10-30

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Plate 3. Chipping Campden Church and Almshouses

Chipping Campden, Church and Almshouses

Chipping Campden was the home of William Morris, the founder of the Arts and craft movement in 19th century England.

Keywords: old photographs, villages, churches, buildings, streets

Places shown: Chipping Campden; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2008-08-30

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Prestbury Old Hall

The best picture I could find online of this building (or what seems to be the same building) has a caption saying “it used to be the Priest’s House and is thought to date from the year 1498.” If thi [...]

Keywords: buildings, architecture, windows, christmas

Places shown: Prestbury; Cheshire; England

Added: 2006-08-31

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The Nativity (1504)

One of a number of pictures that Albrecht Dürer [Duerer] made of the Nativity, i.e. the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, a significant religious event to people of the Christian religion. The birth here t [...]

Keywords: christmas, religion, buildings, people

Places shown: Bethlehem; Palestine

Added: 2006-11-12

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Court of an Egyptian House at the Time of the Khalifs

120x185mm, signed by Gustav Richter.

Keywords: entrances, buildings, steps

Places shown: Alexandria; Egypt

Added: 2006-01-03

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Water End

“The village of Sandridge, close by [St. Albans], prides itself upon the honour of being “Mrs. freeman’s” birthplace, regardless of the fact that Burwell Park in Eastern Lincolnshire puts in a simila [...]

Keywords: houses, manors, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Sandridge; Hertfordshire; England

Added: 2007-08-28

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Rothamstead

“About the same distance from Sandridge to Water End in the opposite direction stands another typical semi-Elizabethan and Jacobean mansion, which, far from degenerating in its old age, has put on a n [...]

Keywords: manors, buildings, houses, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-05

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Sheldonian Theatre from Title Page

The engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford where the book was printed. The engraving appears on the title page of each volume.

Keywords: buildings, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-11-11

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