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Frontispiece: Alnwick CastlePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 2 (1870)

A colour engraving, printed using multiple plates (or stones) each engraved for a different colour. We see in the foreground a stone bridge over a river, with a tomb of, or monument to, a dog on it. T [...]

Keywords: towers, castles, bridges, battlements, turrets, trees, parks, people, fishing, stately homes, manors, buildings, exteriors, colour

Places shown: Alnwick; Northumberland; England

Added: 2023-02-24

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Frontispiece: Cathedral o MessinaSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

This engraving was published in 1877; since then, the cathedral was damaged in an earthquake in 1919 and mostly rebuilt, only to be bombed in the Second World War and again partly rebuilt. In spite of [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, churches, architecture, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Messina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2012-05-29

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Chester, from the Alford Road.The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

Probably this view was drawn from the road between Chester and Aldford, as it’s written today, at the bank of the River Dee.

Keywords: views, cityscapes, cows, animals, water, rivers, boats, towers, trees, fences, cities, cityscapes, towers, churches, buildings, cathedrals, greyscale

Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2018-08-07

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Frontispiece: United States Capitol, WashingtonElements of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1825)

Engraving (probably a woodcut) of the US Capitol building in Washington, DC. The building was burned down in the War of 1812 by the British (from Canada), and this engraving was made before the new c [...]

Keywords: buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Washington; DC; USA

Added: 2009-01-25

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Frontispiece: Dinant, Showing Old Castle and CathedralThe Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

The building with the elongated dome structure is the main church, the thirteenth century Notre Dame de Dinant. When we fared forth into the streets of Dinant the morning after our arrival, we found a [...]

Keywords: views, cityscapes, churches, mountains, rivers, water, colour, art, buildings, houses, rooves

Places shown: Dinant; Wallonia; Namur; Belgium

Added: 2018-08-24

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Frontispiece: St. Paul’s Catheral from Cheapside.English Cathedrals (1910)

St. Paul’s Cathedral in London replaced a much older building that was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1666. It was designed by Sir Christopher Wren. In the foreground a boy with a dustpan and trowel i [...]

Keywords: churches, cathedrals, domes, buildings, roads, street scenes, children, horses, carriages, carts, trees, greyscale

Places shown: London; Longon; England

Added: 2020-10-15

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Sheldonian Theatre from Title PageThe Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary (1745)

The engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford where the book was printed. The engraving appears on the title page of each volume.

Keywords: buildings, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-11-11

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Windsor Castle, The Royal ResidencePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

The history of Windsor Castle is the history of England and of England’s Kings and Queens. [...] The building is worthy of England, and of the long and illustrious line of monarchs who have sat upon o [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, buildings, water, boats, flags, views, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Windsor; Berkshire; England

Added: 2009-11-18

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4.—View on the Grand CanalVenice (1907)

The Grand Canal, Venice; the Canal Grande is the largest canal in Venice.

Keywords: water, canals, colour, cities, buildings, colour

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-05-22

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49.—Huts in a Cingalese Village.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Cingalese people are the natives of Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka. “Of the domestic buildings of the early Britons there are no remains, if we except some circular stone foundations, which may have [...]

Keywords: people, forests, buildings, trees, views, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Sri Lanka

Added: 2005-08-30

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Houses of Parliament from the River, temp Charles II.London (Volume II) (1841)

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.

Keywords: government, buildings, royalty, water, towers, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2009-04-21

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Wilton HousePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

It was hard to do justice to the delicate colours of this 8-colour printed plate of Wilton House in Wiltshire. WILTON HOUSE, WILTON, WILTSHIRE.—EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY. Wilton House is an impo [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, buildings, trees, water, colour

Places shown: Wilton; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2007-02-10

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View From City Walls (Widescreen Version)Red Book Of York (1901)

A version of View from the City Walls cropped for use as a screen background. Choose the size nearest to your computer’s monitor resolution. There is also a 1600x1200 (4:3) version.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, cathedrals, cityscapes, buildings, people, views, street scenes, greyscale

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2008-09-23

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103.—Ruins of the Ancient Church of Reculver.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Roman remains still existing at Reculver are less interesting than those at Richborough, chiefly because they are of less magnitude and are more dilapidated. Very close to the ruins of the ancient [...]

Keywords: ruins, churches, anglosaxon remains, buildings, towers, spires, water, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Reculver; Kent; England

Added: 2011-03-28

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The Kitchen Wall, PeterhouseCambridge (1920)

“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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Howsham Hall.Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

A man on a horse, with a gun and hunting-dogs, approaching a country manor-house over snow. It looks like a storm is coming. There are ancient trees here. The text accompanying this is as follows: H [...]

Keywords: manors, buildings, snow, people, trees, dogs, winter, colour, christmas

Places shown: Malton; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2007-02-15

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128.—Amphitheatre at Pompeii.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This engraving shows, in poor perspective, a large circular amphitheatre. In the background we see Mount Ætna gently smoking, and in the foreground various people in Victorian costume disporting thems [...]

Keywords: roman remains, antiquities, amphitheatres, architecture, buildings, people, sports, greyscale

Places shown: Pompeii; Campania; Italy

Added: 2020-08-04

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131.—Wall of Severus, on the Sandstone Quarries, Denton Dean, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The engraving shows a part of Hadrian’s Wall, calling it the Wall of Severus in a confusion common since the 17th century. Hadrian’s Wall here seens to go along the edge of a bank, so that the land be [...]

Keywords: roman remains, ruins, walls, people, cliffs, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Hadrian’s Wall; Denton Dean; Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Northumberland; England

Added: 2018-04-13

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III.—View in Radcliffe SquareThe Charm of Oxford (1920)

“The visitor to Oxford often asks—“Where is the University?” The proper answer is: “The University is everywhere,” for the colleges are all parts of it. But if a distinction must be made, and some b [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, buildings, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-01-31

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7.—House of Jacques Cœur at Bourges (Begun 1443)Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

“‘Second only in importance to the churches and religious buildings come the military and domestic buildings of the Gothic period (Fig. 7).” A perspective view of a complex house with a courtyard. Jac [...]

Keywords: buildings, diagrams, rooves, towers, manors, greyscale

Places shown: Bourges; Cher; France

Added: 2006-08-08

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