Items in London

The Tower Of London Castle Diagram (wallpaper version)

A version of The Tower of London woodcut with the borders and letters removed (and stretched vertically by about 5%) to make a cool wallpaper.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, castles, towers, battlements, boats, water, moats

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2009-02-11

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The Tower of London

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

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2009-02-11

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Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey

A printing office, with an engraver (I think) at left, a proof-reader, a typesetter (at the back) next to the person operating the press itself, and, at right, a boy wearing tights and I think barefoo [...]

Keywords: typography, printing, children, pictures of books, books, people, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-01-21

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Chapel of Henry VII., Westminster Abbey

“Beyond the Confessor’s Chapel, and beyond the imposing Chantry of Henry V., is Henry VII.’s splendid chapel, in the Perlendicular style, with a richly decorated ceiling of fan tracery, and lined with [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, interiors

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-06-02

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Westminster Hall

“Westminster Hall, built [...] by [William] Rufus, and rebuilt by Richard II., is one of the largest chambers in the world, its fine timbered roof unsupported by pillars. Innumerable are its historic [...]

Keywords: halls, interiors, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-05-18

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Orange Court – Drury Lane

People sit in the streets in a narrow alley; a barefoot girl carries a child; washing hangs out to dry. On our way to the City on the tide of Labor we light upon places in which the day is never aired [...]

Keywords: poverty, people, street scenes, bare feet, children

Places shown: Drury Lane; London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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The Butcher, Newport Market Alley

A bearded butcher chops meat, seemingly on a tree-stump, surrounded by his customers. “What! you have no district markets in London! People buy their meat and vegetables in these horrible little shops [...]

Keywords: people, poverty, beards, shopkeepers, food

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-10-27

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Newgate – Exercise Yard

Prisoners walk in a circle in a stone-walled prison courtyard that admits very little light. The guards look on, wearing smarter clothes and top hats. Newgate’s sombre walls suggest sad thoughts on t [...]

Keywords: punishments, prisons, people

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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Lemonade Vendor

A man with long straggly hair wearing a top hat and an old coat is selling lemonade from a bucket with wooden cups tied to it. “The reader will perceive, in the scenes which have caught the attention [...]

Keywords: people, poverty, costumes

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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109. Window from Sir Paul Pindar’s House, Bishopsgate.

Now in the Victoria and Albert Musem [London]. Bishopsgate Street is in London.

Keywords: windows

Places shown: Bishopgate; London; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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The Tower of London

“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

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-03-27

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St. George’s Chapel, Windsor

The round tower is one of the famous London landmarks, another part of Windsor Castle. The image caption also said, Publish’d the 9th of June 1784 by S. Hooper. T Bonnor scup dirext. [i.e. engraved]; [...]

Keywords: castles, chapels, streets, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Windsor; London; England

Added: 2006-05-30

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