Items matching lighthouses (results page 1)

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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Paddle steamer on stormy seasIllustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

This vignette, with irregular sides, is engraved on the title page. It shows a steam-powered paddle-boat that’s also fitted with masts for sails, funnel belching smoke, with a amaller sailing boat in [...]

Keywords: ships, boats, storms, waves, water, lighthouses, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-02-21

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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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