Items matching clocks (results page 1)

Jugend Magazine, January 1900, Front CoverJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

The front cover from Jugend Magazine from Issue Two, January 1900. It features a blindfolded woman barefoot, resting one foot on a wheel, holding a cornucopia from which roses are falling. She reaches [...]

Keywords: book covers, art, art nouveau, time, zodiac, astrology, people, bare feet, clocks, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-12

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262.—Knole, Kent.English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

Plate 260 - Bourchier’s Gate-house.

The home of the Sackvilles since 1603; it was first built in and around 1457 by Archbishop Bourchier.

Keywords: manors, castles, entrances, clocks, windows, towers, doors, colour

Places shown: Knole; Kent; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Bocardo, destroyed in 1771.Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

Lang says that the Bocardo Prison predated the University.

The image is signed “S. R.”

Keywords: churches, streets, carts, carriages, people, clocks, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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

Today, Charlecote Park is run by the National Trust; it is described there are a 16th century manor, although there had probably been a house there for some five hundred or more years. This picture, m [...]

Keywords: manors, buildings, houses, tudor architecture, arches, windows, clocks, colour

Places shown: Wellesbourne; Stratford-on-Avon; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2009-12-04

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1052.—St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle-upon-TyneOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Among the more important churches erected in the period of which we treat, that of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne holds an honourable place (Fig. 1052). It crowns a bold eminence, and forms from every point of [...]

Keywords: spires, churches, towers, people, shops, streets, clocks, houses, christmas, colour

Places shown: Newcatle-upon-tyne; Northumberland; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Historiated Initial Letter U With Clock and CherubAllegorien und Embleme, Vol II (1882)

This inhabited, or historiated, initial, features a clock with a bell on the top of it which a winged cherub is about to hit with a small hammer; there’s also a butterfly and a spiral motif. The clock [...]

Keywords: initials, letteru, clocks, cherubs, wings, bare feet, butterflies, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-08-30

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1732.—Clock at Hampton Court.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The clock does not appear to be mentioned in the book apart from this picture. It was installed at Hampton Court Palace in 1540, but the astronomical (or astrological) parts were lost in the early nin [...]

Keywords: clocks, astrology, machinery, greyscale

Places shown: Hampton Court Palace; Hampton Court; Middlesex; London; England

Added: 2016-04-29

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Queen Anne ClockThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878)

An sketch or line-drawing of an ornate clock from the early eighteenth century (C18, 18th C., the Queen Anne period). This is a detail from Specimens of Furniture, Time of Anne.

Keywords: furniture, clocks, clipart, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-16

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