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Chester, from the Alford Road.The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

Probably this view was drawn from the road between Chester and Aldford, as it’s written today, at the bank of the River Dee.

Keywords: views, cityscapes, cows, animals, water, rivers, boats, towers, trees, fences, cities, cityscapes, towers, churches, buildings, cathedrals, greyscale

Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2018-08-07

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Frontispiece: Dinant, Showing Old Castle and CathedralThe Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

The building with the elongated dome structure is the main church, the thirteenth century Notre Dame de Dinant. When we fared forth into the streets of Dinant the morning after our arrival, we found a [...]

Keywords: views, cityscapes, churches, mountains, rivers, water, colour, art, buildings, houses, rooves

Places shown: Dinant; Wallonia; Namur; Belgium

Added: 2018-08-24

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Frontispiece: A Dream: Tertiary Man.Paris Avant l’Histoire (1885)

A naked man sits in a tree hugging his knees, his bare feet dangling. Behind him is a lake or river with elephants grazing. A bird wades through a marsh in the foreground. The man has short hair and a [...]

Keywords: people, nudity, bare feet, trees, elephants, animals, rivers, water, birds, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2014-01-21

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A Dream: Tertiary man (Ultra HD TV version)Paris Avant l’Histoire (1885)

A detail cropped to a widescreen format from the Frontispiece showing the naked youth sitting in a nest in a tree, with the river and elephants behind him.

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, widescreen, people, prehistory, nudity, bare feet, trees, elephants, animals, rivers, water, birds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-01-21

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Cartoon: barefoot boy fishingVictorian Trade Cards (1890)

A boy wearing a broad-brimmed sun-hat, a shirt, ragged breeches held up with suspenders, and who has bare feet, stands on a rock by a river and holds a fishing rod. A well-dressed and carefully-manicu [...]

Keywords: cartoons, humour, people, boys, fishing, men, bare feet, drawings, water, rivers, outdoors, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-01-13

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113.—The Thames at Coway Stakes.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Tall trees sway either side of a dirt road down which a cart is pulled way from us by a pair of heavy horses; two women and a dog approach us on the same road. In the background a barge is pulled alon [...]

Keywords: views, rivers, water, carts, trees, roads, people, boats, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Coway Stakes; Weybridge; Surrey; England

Added: 2012-08-14

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Cividale: Il Ponte Del DiavoloIllustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

The Devil’s Bridge in Cividale del Friuli This bridge over the River Natisone was built in the 1440s, supposedly by the devil, who wanted the soul of the first to cross in exchange for its constructio [...]

Keywords: bridges, arches, water, medieval architecture, perspective, foreshortening, boulders, rocks, rivers, water, greyscale

Places shown: Cividale del Friuli; Udine; Italy

Added: 2021-02-21

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View of St. Paul’s Cathedral from the ThamesAlt-England (1888)

This is an unusual view of Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece, which replaced an earlier cathedral founded in A.D. 64 after it burned down in the Great Fire of London. We see a man leaning out of a st [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, circles, windows, sailing boats, ships, boats, churches, domes, london, rivers, river thames, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2022-06-03

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She was throwing his line herself.Cassell’s Family Magazine (1889)

The picture accompanies the first chapter of Mr. Trench of Brasenose: The Romance of a Long Vacation by Mary L. Armitt. But presently Lillie became aware that another “boy” was fishing in a pool clos [...]

Keywords: romance, fishing, people, couples, men, women, water, rivers, rocks, outdoors, courting, courtship, hats, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-02-03

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Tales of Perrault: Little ThumbEl Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

Little Thumb got up very early and went to the edge of a stream; he filled his pockets with little white pebbles. This is from the fairy tale of Little Thumb, written by Charles Perrault and published [...]

Keywords: forests, rivers, streams, boys, nighttime, dark, woods, illustrations for children, fairy tales, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-06-14

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Plate 6.—Fall of the Teify.History of Wales (1853)

Henry G. Gastineau painted this waterfall on the River Teify in 1832.

Samuel Fisher made an engraving based on this painting, although I am not sure if he did this version.

Keywords: rivers, trees, water, waterfalls, colour

Places shown: Cenarth; Cardiganshire; Wales

Added: 2003-10-26

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The God and the ReedDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

Pan, shown in this painting as a bearded and shirtless man with the legs of a goat, a satyr, sits back on a riverbank laughing; he holds a flute. In the river we see water-lillies and in the backgroun [...]

Keywords: art, mythical creatures, gods, summer, music, goats, men, people, trees, rivers, water, flowers, water lillies, dandelions, grass, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-10-02

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The Picket’s Off Duty ForeverWorld’s Best Music (1900)

A soldier lies dead under a full moon at the edge of a forest, with the river Potomac in the background, presumably the Potomac River in America. It appears to be a scene from the American Civil War, [...]

Keywords: american civil war, war, soldiers, death, spooky, full moon, moons, forests, trees, rivers, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: America

Added: 2012-09-02

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Fort Dufferin and the moat, MandalayTravels In The Far East (1909)

Mandalay was the capital of Burma until the British captured the country in 1885. After that, the headquarters of the region were based here, in Fort Dufferin. Today Mandalay is one of the largest c [...]

Keywords: temples, rivers, reflections, greyscale

Places shown: Fort Dufferin; Mandalay; Mandalay Division; Myanmar

Added: 2008-02-17

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They Crossed the Delaware in SafetyThe American Boy’s Life of Washington (1870)

The picture shows a boat of perhaps sixteen men in a small row-boat; George Washington stands near the stern looking behind anxiously for any sign of the British troops. Near the front, implausibly, s [...]

Keywords: george washington, people, boats, soldiers, snow, xmas, rivers, water, american uprising, traitors, rowing, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-12-02

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Bougie and the Atlas MountainsThe Tricolor on the Atlas; Algeria and the French Conquest (1855)

This stunning and beautiful chromolithograph shows a view of a small town in Algiers, with the Atlas Mountains in the background. The engraving is captioned Bougie and the Atlas Mountains; the modern [...]

Keywords: views, mountains, cities, towwns, buildings, people, animals, bare feet, rivers, water, walls, animals, camels, colour

Places shown: Béjaïa; Algeria

Added: 2018-05-04

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Bayeux from the MeadowsCathedral Cities of France (1907)

Bayeux itself is a quiet country town, built up one low hill and down another—a town of long streets and grey-shuttered houses, possessing three principle interests—the Cathedral, the Seminary Chapel [...]

Keywords: cityscapes, views, cathedrals, spires, rivers, meadows, art, colour

Places shown: Bayuex; Ca;vados; Normandy; France

Added: 2013-07-03

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The Pilgrims met on coming out of the river.The Select Works of John Bunyan (1864)

An illustration for Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan): Now, upon the bank of the river, on the other side, they saw the two shining men again, who there waited for them. Wherefore, being come out of th [...]

Keywords: angels, people, men, pilgrims, rivers, water, cherubs, wings, christianity, mythical creatures, religion, costumes, john bunyan, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-06-05

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Mickleham PriorySussex Painted (1906)

Ths priory shown here was by 1906 a private dwelling; there was a priory in the village of Mickleham as far back as 1253; there was a church in the village mentioned in the Domesday Book in the 11th c [...]

Keywords: colour, manors, rivers, water, towers

Places shown: Mickleham; Sussex; England

Added: 2010-05-06

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Heron BridgeThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

Heron Bridge appears to be just South of Chester, near Chester Meadows, probably in what is now called Handbridge, near Boughton. The picture shows a path with a gate or stile in a fence, cows ankle-d [...]

Keywords: rivers, bridges, water, cows, animals, trees, houses, birds, fences, country scenes, greyscale

Places shown: Heron Bridge; Chester; England

Added: 2019-01-15

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