Items matching children taken from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) (results page 1)

79.—Symbols of Rome. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-07-05

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1315.—Weston Church. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An English village church, with an unusually short tower. Probably the building shown here dates from the fourteenth and fifteenth cenuries; it was extensively restored in the 1890s, some fifty or mor [...]

Keywords: churches, graveyards, people, religion, funerals, death, sadness, children, greyscale

Places shown: Weston; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2010-08-23

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1387.—Leaping through a Hoop. (ANcient MS. engraved in Strutt’s Sports) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A boy, barefoot, stands with arms outstretched; perhaps he has been running. He is about to jump or leap through a ring or hoop held by his two smiling play-mates. ...and if the boys leap through thei [...]

Keywords: games, sports, children, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-08-11

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