Items matching interiors (results page 3)

A Procession in the Catacomb of CallistusRome (1905)

Navigating the underground paths of the dead in Rome, carrying only a flickering torch to fend off the darkness! The note printed on the tissue-paper protecting this image reads: The nucleus of the gr [...]

Keywords: death, caves, people, roman remains, catacombs, interiors, colour, spooky

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-02-09

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420.—Warkworth CastleOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Interior of a Room in Warkworth Castle.

Keywords: interiors, windows, colour

Places shown: Warkworth; Northumberland; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [interior view]Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

Clerestories.—Those Norman churches which were built with aisles seem all to have had clerestories. I do not know of a Norman nave with original aisles without some indication that there was a cleres [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, religion, buildings, columns, pillars, arches, pews, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Cliffe; Kent; England

Added: 2010-08-10

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46. The South Nave Arcade, Melbourne, Derbyshire, with stilted Norman arcade.Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

Like the pre-Conquest builders [i.e. before 1066], the Normans knew only one form of arch, th semicicular, with its variants, the segmental (used when the height was limited) and the stilted (46) or h [...]

Keywords: churches, arches, norman architecture, gothic architecture, interiors, pews, columns, pillars, greyscale

Places shown: Melbourne; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2010-08-10

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Cells at town hall, Boston, England, where the Pilgrim Fathers were confinedAncestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

A photograph of a prison, jail or gaol, showing the iron bars of open cell doors. According to the extract from the book that follows, the “Pilgrim Fathers” (a group of Puritans, a sort of fanatical [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, cages, interiors, corridors, spooky, pilgrim fathers, greyscale

Places shown: Boston; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2006-02-20

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Prison Cells (wallpaper version)Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

A version of Prison Cells... for use as a computer desktop background image (root wallpaper or whatever you call it on your system). I cropped the image and increased the contrast to make it more atm [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, cages, interiors, corridors, wallpaper, backgrounds, pilgrim fathers, greyscale

Places shown: Boston; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2006-02-20

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The Cathedral of YorkTurrets Towers and Temples (1899)

Better known today as York Minster. The cathedral church of St. Peter was founded in the 7th century; the present building was begun in 1172, but took 300 years to complete.

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2004-03-21

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A Boyar Wedding FeastModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band I (1887)

This engraving is of a Russian wedding feast among the Russian nobility. The groom has seen the bride’s face for the first time and is about to kiss her; the bride does not look very eager. I wouldn’t [...]

Keywords: paintings, art, weddings, feasts, celebrations, indoors, interiors, windows, meals, feasts, tables, people, brides, grooms, greyscale

Places shown: Russia

Added: 2020-11-12

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Meeting-Hall of the Brewers’ GuildAntwerpia

Waterhuis. — Vergaderzaal der Brouwersgilde. La Maison Hydraulique. — Sall de réunion de la Corporation des Brasseurs. Das Wasserhaus. — Versammlungssaal der Brauersgilde. The Waterhouse. — Meeting-Ha [...]

Keywords: interiors, tables, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Antwerp; Belgium

Added: 2007-05-02

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Festival at the East London Hospital For Children on New Year’s EveIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

FESTIVAL AT THE EAST LONDON HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN. From among the entertainments given on a New-Year’s Eve at the different hospitals and charitable institutions in London, we have selected for illust [...]

Keywords: christmas, trees, new year, people, children, hospitals, health, interiors, dickens, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-15

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The Sanctuary, National War Shrine, EdinburghIn Search of Scotland (1929)

The Shrine is the highest building in Edinburgh. It rises from virgin rock. Its walls spring from jagged ledges. In shape it is a sanctuary facing north with an east and west transept. [...] The ke [...]

Keywords: war memorials, shrines, interiors, arches, gothic architecture, stonework, masonry, columns, gates, colour

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2014-08-22

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525.—The Crypt, St. Bartholomew’s Church.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A dark stone-vaulted crypt extends as far as we can see; a man walks away from us, holding a burning taper out to light his way and carrying a heavy key. In the foreground a wine-barrel serves to hold [...]

Keywords: crypts, people, drinking, barrels, darkness, interiors, churches, arches, pillars, lamps, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2013-06-04

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Jailer walking into the darkOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A man walks with a lighted taper into the back of the crypt. In the foreground we see empty wine-bottles and a wine-barrel (or beer-barrel). This is a detail taken from a larger picture, The crypt of [...]

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, crypts, darkness, spooky, people, darkness, arches, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2013-06-04

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527.—The Western Entrance, Interior, St. Bartholomew’s church.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There can be no doubt that we have the original walls, pillars, and arches of the twelfth century; the massive, grand, and simple style of the whole tells truly through the date of their erection. (p. [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, norman architecture, people, arches, pillars, windows, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2013-09-24

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Interior of the Temple Church.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Temple Church was built by (or for) the Knights Templar in London in the 12th Century. Some time after the Knights Templar were destroyed (in 1307) the temple was given by Edward II to the Knights [...]

Keywords: interiors, colour, churches, people, ceilings, columns, arches, pillars, costumes

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2012-08-13

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567.—Chapel in Canterbury Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“[...] an ancient chair in the chapel of the Holy Trinity, formed also of grey marble, in pieces, which is used for the enthronization of the Archbishops of the See, and which, sayeth tradition, was t [...]

Keywords: chairs, furniture, interiors, cathedrals, churches, arches, windows, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2006-08-26

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577.—Interior of Lincoln Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Nave, unequalled, it is supposed, in the world for its combined magnitude and beauty of proportion, and the curious Galilee porch, so richly decorated, are among the next additions; the use of the [...]

Keywords: interiors, cathedrals, churches, windows, pews, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2011-04-25

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589.—Durham Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Durham Cathedral is a UNESCO world heritage site today. It was built in the 11th century and so is almost a thousand years old. But it still works. partial alterations, improvements, and some importan [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, interiors, pillars, churches, people, shadows, light, greyscale

Places shown: DurhamDurham; England

Added: 2012-08-17

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Oiling the Wheels.Home Words for Heart and Hearth (1888)

A bearded man stands next to a machine made from giant cogs and wheels; he is oiling an axle. In the background behind him is a counter where a person stands facing away from us and towards a man on t [...]

Keywords: machinery, people, interiors, wheels, cogs, mysterious mechanisms, steampunk, victorian costumes, men, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-02-02

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Get Up and Bar the DoorSome British Ballads (1919)

The house-wife carries a hot pan of stew by the handle, a cat sits on the hearth by, one assumes, the fire, and the husband looks to his wife even as she in turn looks to the door. It fell about the [...]

Keywords: people, interiors, cottages, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-09-22

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