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Front CoverAlt-England (1888)

The front cover of this book about Old England features sailing ships at the coast, near a cliff surmounted by a lighthouse.

Keywords: book covers, colour, ships, rigging, lighthouses, cliffs

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-06-03

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88.—Dover Cliffs.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The white cliffs of dover, complete with fishing boats. The plate is signed “SIBLY” but that could be the original artist or the engraver (or both). “In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B [...]

Keywords: cliffs, water, boats, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Dover; Kent; England

Added: 2008-09-17

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90.—Dover Cliffs.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The white cliffs of dover, complete with fishing boats in a storm, and with a barrel floating on a wave. “In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to [...]

Keywords: cliffs, water, boats, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Dover; Kent; England

Added: 2011-03-13

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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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383.—Rock of Bamborough with Castle.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There has been a settlement here for at Bamborough for hundreds of years; a castle was mentioned here in the year 547, but was probably over 100 years old even then. That castle was destroyed by Viki [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, battlements, walls, cliffs, animals, cattle, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Bamburgh; Northumberland; England

Added: 2014-07-03

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Victor Hugo amongst the rocks at JerseyVictor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

Victor hugo dans les Rochers de Jersey. This is an engraving based on a salted paper print from 1885 showing victor Hugo posing by Outcasts Rock in Jersey, where he was exiled. The original print is i [...]

Keywords: portraits, victor hugo, people, victorian gentlemen, rocks, cliffs, greyscale

Places shown: Jersey

Added: 2016-02-23

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6.—Tinmouth CastleThe Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

Tinmouth Castle from the North, with a View of the Haven &c. Northumberland. There was a monastery at Tynemouth as early as the 6th century, and the fortifications were builtby the monks for protectio [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, people, cliffs, water, ships, greyscale

Places shown: Tynemouth; Northumberland; England

Added: 2009-11-28

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