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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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261.—Knole, Kent.

Plate 261 - The West Side of the Green Court.

Keywords: manors, creeper, windows, doors, entrances, chimneys, courtyards

Places shown: Knole; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-12

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25. Haddon Hall, Derbyshire

“The most complete and most interesting house of this period [the fourteenth century] is the well-known Haddon Hall in Derbyshire. It consists of two courts (Fig. 24), the hall being placed in the win [...]

Keywords: castles, manors, courtyards, windows, entrances, arches, towers

Places shown: Bakewell; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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The Old Hall, Corpus Christi College

Corpus Christi college was founded in A.D. 1352. “Before turning to the more modern aspect of Cambridge, the subject demands that something should be said of those notable periods of prosperity, the f [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings, courtyards, creeper, windows

Places shown: Corpus Christi College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-08-17

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The Kitchen Wall, Peterhouse

“But the history of the English Universities must be considered as that of communities into whose lives colleges were introduced for a social rather than a scholastic purpose. Cambridge grew into a se [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings, courtyards

Places shown: Peterhouse College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-28

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Magdalen Cloisters

The tower is also featured in several paintings by Haslehust’s illustrations of Oxford.

Keywords: colleges, cloisters, entrances, courtyards, creeper, gothic, churches, towers, people, arches, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-04

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Nevilles Court, Trinity College

Hmm, this one came out better, I’m encouraged to try some more.

Keywords: colleges, courtyards, windows, gothic, spooky

Places shown: Trinity College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2004-03-11

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