Items matching castles, colour (results page 21)

Peak Castle, Derbyshire: Plan of the Site.The Growth of the English House (1909)

Peak Castle is today known as Peveril Castle, and is high above the village of Castleton in the Peak District national park. “It is tolerably certain that romance had no part in the selection of this [...]

Keywords: castles, maps, plans, greyscale

Places shown: Peveril Castle; Castleton; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2005-10-16

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Reading Abbey (Coloured version)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Version of the Reading Abbey engraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and then coloured (by Liam Quin).

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey (Background 4)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Version of the Reading Abbey engraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and also made lighter and with reduced contrast, so it’s less distracting.

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey, Plate 1The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Publish’d the 24th of May 1784 by S. Hooper. The abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I of England, who was buried here. The abbey was closed at the Reformation, and used as a private home for a ti [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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The Harmony of the WorldAstrology (1806)

The Biblical references at the bottom of this picture as as follows:Genesis 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be [...]

Keywords: zodiac, astrology, planets, sun, heaven, stars, angels, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-01-17

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Untitled image, Mediaeval towerLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Untitled image; a man (the protagonist) sits outside a mediæval castle tower. He wears red boots and a long robe, a medieval scholar’s dress perhaps, and in the background a lady spares him a glance. [...]

Keywords: towers, people, scholars, christmas, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-04-21

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Floriated initial letter T, coloured versionOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I coloured a decorative initial capital letter T that was at the start of a chapter.

Keywords: initials, lettert, colour, leaves, gold, yellow, green, colour, floriated initials

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-04-17

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76.—The Herefordshire Beacon.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There are disagreements about whether the Herefordshire Beacon is the remains of an iron-age hill fort or perhaps is an unfinished Norman motte-and-bailey castle of the 11th century; an excavation in [...]

Keywords: celts, earthworks, castles, hills, views, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Colwall; Malvern; Herefordshire; England

Added: 2007-07-24

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4.—Urizen kneels.First Book of Urizen (1794)

A full-page illustration of a naked man kneeling; Urizen himself, I presume; he crouches naked on one knee, his long white beard reaching down to lie on the ground next to his bare right foot. The ba [...]

Keywords: blake, occult, people, nudity, beards, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-17

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8. The Peak Castle, Derbysire (1176)The Growth of the English House (1909)

“The keep itself, which was built in 1176, is very similar in arrangement to the peel-towers of the Scottish border and to the towers which elsewhere formed the nucleus of many fortified houses. It pr [...]

Keywords: castles, plans, architecture, colour

Places shown: Peveril Castle; Castleton; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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BuckinghamshireThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A public domain map of the County of Buckinghamshire in England, from 1783. Places marked on the map include the following: The Hundreds: A. Newport; B. Buckingham; C. Cottslow; D. Ashenden; E. Alesbu [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Buckinghamshire; England

Added: 2005-11-04

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Osanna in ExcelsisLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The phrase, Osanna in Excelsis (moer commonly written in English, Hosanna in Excelsis) in the form of a giant “E” with a decorative initial letter “O” containing angels, and a smaller E-within-the-e i [...]

Keywords: christmas, initials, angels, lettering, calligraphy, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-12-20

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89. Roman Lighthouse, Church and Trenches in Dover Castle.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In that curious record, in old French, of the foundation of the Castle of Dover, which we find in Dugdale’s ‘Monasticon,’ we are told that when Arviragus reigned in Britain, he refused to be subject t [...]

Keywords: lighthouses, castles, ruins, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Dover; Kent; England

Added: 2010-09-08

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Swash letter N with Three Kings and Mary and JesusThe Four Gospels (1931)

A decorative initial for the Adoration of the Magi. The Wise men from the East (the Gospels don’t say how many there were so tradition says there were three) arrived to worship the infant Jesus; this [...]

Keywords: lettern, initials, historiated initials, inhabited initials, christmas, epiphany, wise men, babies, bare feet, religion, christianity, nativity, biblical scenes, bible pictures, people, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-12-07

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5.—The Book RevealedFirst Book of Urizen (1794)

Urizen (?) holds a giant open book inscribed with strange symbols; the text is as follows: In living creations appear’d In the flames of eternal fury. 3. Sund’ring, dark’ning, thund’ring! Rent away wi [...]

Keywords: occult, people, beards, books, pictures of books, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-17

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Gardener’s BoyPictureseque Egypt Vol II (1878)

A boy, perhaps thirteen years old, has a large flower on his head and carries a garland; he is selling flowers from a basket.

Keywords: people, children, poverty, flowers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-12-28

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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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Decorative chapter head with styilized birds and green menSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

A decorative woodcut used above a chapter title at the start of the book. The image is a “foliate border” because it contains vines and leaves, but there are also two bird heads and two heads (in prof [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, mythical creatures, borders, birds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-10-20

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7. Peak Castle, DerbyshireThe Growth of the English House (1909)

Plan of the Keep Peak Castle is more commonly known as Peveril Castle. See also Fig. 8. “Above the upper chamber was the roof, originally of steep pitch (see section, Fig. 9). but which may have been [...]

Keywords: castles, plans, colour

Places shown: Peveril Castle; Castleton; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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92.—Kirby HallEnglish Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

92. – The Porch and Hall Windows.
As seen through the central arch of the loggia.

Keywords: manors, windows, entrances, arches, ruins, clouds, colour

Places shown: Corby; Northamptonshire; England

Added: 2003-11-27

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