Houses of Parliament from the River, temp Charles II.
The Houses of Parliament in Westminster, in the time of King Charles II, so between (roughly) 1650 and 1685; this is of course long before th 19th century changes, and before Big Ben was built. [more...]
[$]A woodcut of the teenaged boy Milton, the famous poet, when he was nineteen years old. I’m sure I didn’t have such a frilly neck as a boy.
[$]Priot Bolton’s Garden-house at Canonbury
From the house we pass to the lawn, which is terminated by a wall with a raised and embowered terrace, from which we look over on the other side to the kitchen-garden, the New River, and thence onwards towards London. At each extremity of this wall is an octagonal garden-house, built by Prior Bolton—the one to the left having a [...] [more...]
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