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Penshurst Place, KentAncestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

“In this fourteenth-century castle lived the great English liberal, Algernon Sidney, the friend and counsellor of William Penn, who had a hand in drawing up the famous “Frame of Government” for the Pr [...]

Keywords: manors, trees, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

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On the SerpentineThe Circling Year (1870)

A night-time Winter scene in Victorian London: it’s the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park, and it’s frozen over with ice. People are skating, carrying burning torches to light their way; in the foreground [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, ice, winter, holidays, skating, bridges, crowds, torchlight, roast chestnuts, people, trees, lakes, rivers, colour

Places shown: Hyde Park; London; England

Added: 2018-06-09

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Holly-Branch and Storm WindParis Avant l’Histoire (1885)

Branche-de-Houx et Vent d’Orage. Storm Wind and Holly Branch seem to be the names of the man and woman in the picture, respectively. The cresecent-shaped object depicts a terracotta object that was fo [...]

Keywords: people, bare feet, costumes, spirit, religion, bronze age, ancient history, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-07-29

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Courtyard of an Egyptian HouseLa Civilizacion (1881)

This could almost be the atrium of a modern hotel, but it’s a drawing (speculatively, presumably) of an ancient Egyptian house built to surround a central courtyard that seems perhaps to have a glass [...]

Keywords: ancient egypt, interiors, people, statuary, decoration, ornament, pillars, yellow, bare feet, colour

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2018-07-18

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Costumes, 1480The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

Captions under the people in the picture read: Judge; Gentleman; Lady of rank; Courtier; Lady of quality. The room, unsurprisingly, is styled in the manner of the late fifteenth century; the clothes a [...]

Keywords: costumes, people, interiors, manors, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: England

Added: 2014-01-17

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The Christmas WagonThe Circling Year (1870)

A covered wagon, drawn by four pairs of horses, crosses a snow-covered stone bridge over a river in this chromolithograph. I’m not sure whether the wagon brings gifts or relatives or is coming to take [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, chromolithographs, colour, horses, wagons, carts, bridges, snow, winter, rivers, water, trees, people, cold, travel

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2018-02-21

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08: Græca MetricaOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, greek, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2000-09-14

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The Lost City Under the SeaJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

A naked bearded man sits on the spire of a cathedral in an underwater city and gazes upon the town; large fish and a jellyfish swim past. He is crowned with coral. The picture is delicate, printed in [...]

Keywords: poetry, poems, cityscapes, views, cities, underwater, floods, flooded, people, men, nudity, bare feet, fish, spires, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-09-06

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Monk BarRed Book Of York (1901)

Monk Bar here is a gate (a barrier, if you will) that dates from the 14th century. The portcullis still works. I don’t know if Monk Bar Pharmacy is still there, with a post office and selling horse [...]

Keywords: gateways, entrances, towers, colour

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2004-04-25

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Plate 15.—Ragland CastleHistory of Wales (1853)

Ragland Castle, Monmouthshire.Drawn by H. Gastineau. Engraved by H. Adlard.There are more pictures of Ragland Castle (also called Raglan Castle) in this gallery, and another in Oman’s Castles book. [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, water, people, trees, birds, ducks, towers, overgrown, colour

Places shown: Raglan; Monmouthshire; Wales

Added: 2004-02-25

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Plate 15.—Ragland Castle (Wallpaper Edition)History of Wales (1853)

Ragland Castle, Monmouthshire

Drawn by H. Gastineau. Engraved by H. Adlard.

This version is cropped to make a screen background (desktop wallpaper); there’s also the original uncropped version.

Keywords: castles, ruins, water, trees, birds, ducks, towers, overgrown, backgrounds, wallpaper, colour

Places shown: Raglan; Monmouthshire; Wales

Added: 2004-02-25

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The Tower of LondonTurrets Towers and Temples (1899)

The main keep (the White Tower) was probably build around 1070, so it’ll be having its thousandth birthday soon.

Keywords: castles, towers, colour

Places shown: London; Middlesex; England

Added: 2004-03-20

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Chapel of San Lorenzo at S. Benedict’s, SubiacoRome (1905)

This painting by Alberto Pisa shows the inside of the upper church of Sacro Speco, at the Benedictine monastery at Subiaco, near Rome, in Italy. The frescoes (wall-paintings) are from the fourteenth [...]

Keywords: interiors, frescoes, art, chapels, churches, shrines, religion, colour

Places shown: Subiaco; Rome; Italy

Added: 2011-02-27

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Baronial hall, Penshurst PlaceAncestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

“On the left are the buttery and the kitchens and, separated from the stone passage by a screen of carved oak panels, is the Great Hall, the glory and wonder of the castle, with its open timber roof, [...]

Keywords: interiors, fireplaces, manors, furniture, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

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The Post-Office at PenshurstAncestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

Perhaps Tudor or older?

Keywords: houses, gravestones, chimneys, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

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A Guid Gangin’ PleaReminiscences of Scottish Life and Character (1911)

A Guid Gangin’ Plea, From a water-colour drawing by Henry W. Kerr, A.R.S.A., R.S.W. An older gentleman sits at a writing desk with a quill pen in his mouth; he is holding what appears to be an opened [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, writing, colour

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2009-02-07

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152. Swakeleys, Middlesex (cir. 1630).The Growth of the English House (1909)

If Inigo Jones made no use of a transitional style, others did so. Swakeleys in Middlesex (Fig. 152) is a case in point. Here mullioned windows are still retained, but the cornices, breaking out into [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, buildings, architecture, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Ickenham; Midlesex; England

Added: 2011-02-26

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Little people at the door—wallpaperEl Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

This is a detail from little people at the door to the house in the forest, showing the children at an old stone house in a clearing in a scary ancient forest.

Keywords: wallpapers, backgrounds, illustrations for children, fear, scary, spooky, forests, little people, littles, perrault, night-time, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-09-01

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Cloisters of the LateranMediaeval Rome (1901)

p. 153. Cloisters of the Lateran
See the entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia for more information.

Keywords: arches, villas, lions, interiors, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2003-04-16

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DecemberHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 1543)An old tonsured man wearing a monk’s robe and a gown is supping lustily from a giant bowl of liquid. He rides a goat, representing the lasciviousness of the pagan festivals at December, as [...]

Keywords: people, bowls, winter, animals, goats, monks, calendars, months, december, christmas, religion, wassail, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-11-06

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