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Architecture fig. 1a, Column from LindisfarneThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This engraving of a fluted column is taken from Architecture, and is one of several columns in that picture that are taken from Lindisfarne Priory, built in (or slightly after) A.D. 1093. The columns [...]

Keywords: columns, norman architecture, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-09-01

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Architecture (full page print)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The characteristic marks of this [early Norman] style are these: The walls are very thick, generally without buttresses; the arches, both within and without, as well as those over the doors and window [...]

Keywords: architecture, pillars, columns, norman architecture, colour

Places shown: England

Added: 2014-08-30

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I.—Detail of Façade of the Old Museum, Berlin, with sculpture group.Monumental Architecture (1910)

I.—Old Museum, Berlin: Detail of Façade, with Sculpture Group “The Amazon.” Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Architect. Kiss, Sculptor. These steps sre indeed of monumental proportions! The naked woman in th [...]

Keywords: sculpture, statues, entrances, columns, animals, lions, people, bare feet, nudity, weapons, neoclassical, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: BerlinBerlin; Germany

Added: 2005-08-17

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One Bay of the “Angel Choir,” Interior, Lincoln CathedralEnglish Cathedrals (1910)

A view as if one were standing in the chancel between the stone Rood Screen and the small step leading up to the sanctuary with its alter, and looking to the side of the great building. The architectu [...]

Keywords: decorated style, gothic architecture, transitional architecture, cathedrals, interiors, columns, windows, tracery, churches, chuch architecture, stonework, pillars, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-04-07

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IV.—West Front of Buckingham Palace.Monumental Architecture (1910)

The lack of a flag probably means the King (at the time) was not at home. Thewing on the left today is the Queen’s private disco and mosh pit.

Keywords: palaces, architecture, photographs, buildings, columns, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2012-06-09

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Interior of the Temple Church.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Temple Church was built by (or for) the Knights Templar in London in the 12th Century. Some time after the Knights Templar were destroyed (in 1307) the temple was given by Edward II to the Knights [...]

Keywords: interiors, colour, churches, people, ceilings, columns, arches, pillars, costumes

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2012-08-13

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43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [interior view]Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

Clerestories.—Those Norman churches which were built with aisles seem all to have had clerestories. I do not know of a Norman nave with original aisles without some indication that there was a cleres [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, religion, buildings, columns, pillars, arches, pews, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Cliffe; Kent; England

Added: 2010-08-10

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46. The South Nave Arcade, Melbourne, Derbyshire, with stilted Norman arcade.Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

Like the pre-Conquest builders [i.e. before 1066], the Normans knew only one form of arch, th semicicular, with its variants, the segmental (used when the height was limited) and the stilted (46) or h [...]

Keywords: churches, arches, norman architecture, gothic architecture, interiors, pews, columns, pillars, greyscale

Places shown: Melbourne; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2010-08-10

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The Sanctuary, National War Shrine, EdinburghIn Search of Scotland (1929)

The Shrine is the highest building in Edinburgh. It rises from virgin rock. Its walls spring from jagged ledges. In shape it is a sanctuary facing north with an east and west transept. [...] The ke [...]

Keywords: war memorials, shrines, interiors, arches, gothic architecture, stonework, masonry, columns, gates, colour

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2014-08-22

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VI. Sunrise Behind the Temple of Concord, GirgentiIn the Land of the Temples (1915)

The Land of Temples is the land of effects—and they must be seized when they are seen. I had no idea of making this drawing; but as I reached the temple, the sun rose behind it, and I never saw it so [...]

Keywords: ruins, temples, sunrises, greek architecture, pillars, columns, sunrises, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: GirgentiGirgenti; Sicily

Added: 2011-01-25

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New Post Office, LondonYouth’s Instruction (1830)

“March 1830. The New Post-Office, London. (With an Engraving) The magnificent building recently opened as the new metropolitan Post-Office is situated near the junction of Cheapside and Newgate-stree [...]

Keywords: columns, neoclassical, carriages, horses, people, streets, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2005-08-19

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733.—Oxford Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The picture shows great stone pillars or columns supporting semicircular arches, tall ceilings, and, in the foreground, perhaps a choirmaster’s chair and a choir stall with two books seemingly strewn [...]

Keywords: norman architecture, cathedrals, churches, interiors, arches, pillars, columns, church architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2025-04-13

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Whitley CourtPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

Witley Court was badly damaged by a fire in 1937, some 60 years after this picture was made. The description in the book tries hard, i think, to hide the writer’s disdain for the self-made. WHITLEY CO [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, victorian excess, opunlence, columns, houses, parks, colour

Places shown: Witley Court; Great Witley; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2020-11-01

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931.—Chapter House, Salisbury.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The chapter-house is 58 feet in diameter, internally, and 52 feet high to the vaulting. (p. 258) [...] The chapter-house (Fig. 931) is an interesting building. Internally it is very beautiful and hig [...]

Keywords: interiors, cathedrals, windows, churches, religion, gothic architecture, arches, gothic arches, tracery, vaulting, vaulted ceilings, columns, mullions, greyscale

Places shown: Salisbury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2018-10-18

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Old Bologna (1850s)Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

A montage in the style of a vintage postcard. Piazza Maggiore [main square]. Palazzo Governatio [Government palace]. Piazza de S. Domenico [Saint Dominic’s Square]. Torri degli Asinelli e Garisendi [A [...]

Keywords: bologna, buildings, medieval, cities, cityscapes, views, arches, cloisters, colonnades, columns, towers, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Bologna; Emilia-Romagna Italy

Added: 2024-12-08

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The Parthenon.Elements of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1825)

The engraving (probably a wood-cut) features a fairly rough drawing of the Parthenon; it was presumably made from a drawing from no later than the early 1800s. There is no credit to any artist that I [...]

Keywords: temples, ruins, views, religion, pillars, columns, architecture, ancient greek remains, ancient greece, greyscale

Places shown: Athens; Greece

Added: 2016-11-11

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The Ruins of Palmyra.Elements of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1825)

Palmyra is an ancient city now in Syria, but when this book was written it was in Turkey. The ruined Temple of Bel معبد بل) on the right in this engraving has since largely been destroyed by a right-w [...]

Keywords: temples, ruins, views, religion, pillars, columns, greyscale

Places shown: Palmyra; Syria

Added: 2016-11-11

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p. 161. Arch of Severus, Column of Phocas and S. MartinaMediaeval Rome (1901)

“The great Pontiff [Pope Gregory the Great] died in 604. Four years later a fine Corinthian pillar, taken froms ome ancient building, was erected in the Forum [in Rome] to commemorate the worst of all [...]

Keywords: columns, ruins, pillars, roman remains, temples, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2003-04-16

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A Dance of ShepherdessesMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1881)

The drawing reproduced as an engraving shows three women, barefoot and in ankle-length short-sleeved dresses. One is seated, playing divided pipes; she’s sitting on the steps of a circular neo-Classic [...]

Keywords: dance, dancing, people, women, bare feet, temples, columns, music, pipes, sheep, animals, trees, water, pillars, spring, fecundity, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-26

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Ladies at the Roman PalaceThe Idler (1797)

The ladies and the ruined temple illustrate Essay XXI (21) in William Shenstone’s Essays on Men and Manners (1797): I was, methought, transported into a winding valley, on each side of whose area, so [...]

Keywords: people, costumes, temples, columns, buildings, bare feet, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-07-15

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