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The shore was covered with men ready for battle An Island Story (1920)

Men wearing tarrered rags or perhaps animal skins, and carrying spears and shields, watch from atop white cliffs as Roman galleys near the shore. The time depicted is about the first century C.E., or [...]

Keywords: people, soldiers, bare feet, ships, water, backgrounds, wallpaper, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: England

Added: 2009-05-06

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93.—Roman Galley. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An 1840s woodcut representing a Roman coin found in Britain; this coin shows a galley with cox and three (or six) oarsmen, or rowers. Counter to current practice, the rowers face forward. See Fig. 94 [...]

Keywords: boats, ships, slavery, people, roman coins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-09-16

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94.—Roman Galley. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The engraving shows a Roman coin, with a picture of a galley being rowed, whether by slaves or soldiers we cannot tell; the coinbears the words, ilicita avg s c cosiiipp. The galleys in which the cava [...]

Keywords: boats, ships, slavery, people, roman coins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-10-03

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95.—Roman Galley Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A picture of a Roman coin showing a lighter sort of Roman galley, or rowing-boat. The rowers here appear to be wearing helmets, so presumably are soldiers rather than slaves. Compare with Fig. 94. d [...]

Keywords: boats, ships, soldiers, people, roman coins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-11-03

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Ornament: steam ship Portraits and Principles of the World’s Great Men and Women (1897)

This woodcut of a steam-ship appeared at the end of a chapter, as decoration.

Keywords: ornaments, ships, boats, water, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-08

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The Missing Screw Steamer City of Boston Illustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

“THE CITY OF BOSTON. The fate of the Inman steamer City of Boston, which left the port of Halifax for Liverpool on Jan 28 [1870], has during the last two or three weeks been a subject of the most anxi [...]

Keywords: ships, waves, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-03-20

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Fowey: Entrance to the harbour. Round The Coast (1895)

“FOWEY.—This has been described as a miniature Dartmouth, and is a small seaport with a picturesque harbour at the mouth of the Fowey. This little place is 280 miles from London. In the old days it sh [...]

Keywords: water, boats, ships, views, towns, townscapes, greyscale

Places shown: Fowey; Cornwall; England

Added: 2007-03-27

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The Tower of London England (1898)

“London [...] was secured [for William] by the erection of a fortress which afterward grew into the Tower, but William desired to reign not as a conqueror but as a lawful king. At Christmas [A.D. 1066 [...]

Keywords: water, boats, ships, castles, towers, sails, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-03-27

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Map of New France Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

Map of “New France” (Canada). From the engraving by Benjamin Wright (circa 1608). “No maps [...] were better engraved or more individual in decorative embellishment than those of Benjamin Wright, whos [...]

Keywords: maps, ships, whales, greyscale

Places shown: Canada

Added: 2005-08-26

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Seamen in great distress eat one another Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

These sailors have only a tattered sail on their mast, and are in a small lifeboat in a raging storm, with a sea inhabited by a strange giant fish. A sailor near the stern of the boat is about to be [...]

Keywords: boats, people, storms, ships, fish, waves, food, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-04

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The Tower of London The National and Domestic History of England Vol 2 (1878)

A woodcut showing a diagram of the Tower of London and its surringings. There are boats and conttages, battlements and towers, with the keep in the middle of it all. The letters annotating various pa [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, battlements, towers, boats, ships, moats, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2009-02-11

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Nelson at Trafalgar. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol II (1894)

The picture shows Lord Horatio Nelson (1758 – 1805) at the Battle of Trafalgar, where he died. “The last battle in which Nelson was engaged was fought off Cape Trafalgar, October 21, 1805. The enemy w [...]

Keywords: ships, battles, people, portraits, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-30

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