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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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The shore was covered with men ready for battleAn Island Story (1920)

Men wearing tarrered rags or perhaps animal skins, and carrying spears and shields, watch from atop white cliffs as Roman galleys near the shore. The time depicted is about the first century C.E., or [...]

Keywords: people, soldiers, bare feet, ships, water, backgrounds, wallpaper, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: England

Added: 2009-05-06

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93.—Roman Galley.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An 1840s woodcut representing a Roman coin found in Britain; this coin shows a galley with cox and three (or six) oarsmen, or rowers. Counter to current practice, the rowers face forward. See Fig. 94 [...]

Keywords: boats, ships, slavery, people, roman coins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-09-16

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94.—Roman Galley.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The engraving shows a Roman coin, with a picture of a galley being rowed, whether by slaves or soldiers we cannot tell; the coinbears the words, ilicita avg s c cosiiipp. The galleys in which the cava [...]

Keywords: boats, ships, slavery, people, roman coins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-10-03

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95.—Roman GalleyOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A picture of a Roman coin showing a lighter sort of Roman galley, or rowing-boat. The rowers here appear to be wearing helmets, so presumably are soldiers rather than slaves. Compare with Fig. 94. d [...]

Keywords: boats, ships, soldiers, people, roman coins, coins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-11-03

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Ornament: steam shipPortraits and Principles of the World’s Great Men and Women (1897)

This woodcut of a steam-ship appeared at the end of a chapter, as decoration.

Keywords: ornaments, ships, boats, water, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-08

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The Missing Screw Steamer City of BostonIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

“THE CITY OF BOSTON. The fate of the Inman steamer City of Boston, which left the port of Halifax for Liverpool on Jan 28 [1870], has during the last two or three weeks been a subject of the most anxi [...]

Keywords: ships, waves, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-03-20

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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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Fowey: Entrance to the harbour.Round The Coast (1895)

“FOWEY.—This has been described as a miniature Dartmouth, and is a small seaport with a picturesque harbour at the mouth of the Fowey. This little place is 280 miles from London. In the old days it sh [...]

Keywords: water, boats, ships, views, towns, townscapes, greyscale

Places shown: Fowey; Cornwall; England

Added: 2007-03-27

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The Tower of LondonEngland (1898)

“London [...] was secured [for William] by the erection of a fortress which afterward grew into the Tower, but William desired to reign not as a conqueror but as a lawful king. At Christmas [A.D. 1066 [...]

Keywords: water, boats, ships, castles, towers, sails, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-03-27

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Map of New FranceArt in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

Map of “New France” (Canada). From the engraving by Benjamin Wright (circa 1608). “No maps [...] were better engraved or more individual in decorative embellishment than those of Benjamin Wright, whos [...]

Keywords: maps, ships, whales, greyscale

Places shown: Canada

Added: 2005-08-26

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Entrance to the harbour of Messina.South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

The harbour of Messina, today a large and modern city, was in the 1870s protected by a fort (still present). Today there is a large stone column with a statue on top of it very prominently placed on t [...]

Keywords: harbours, water, boats, ships, forts, people, hills, greyscale

Places shown: MessinaMessina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2015-10-14

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Seamen in great distress eat one anotherWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

These sailors have only a tattered sail on their mast, and are in a small lifeboat in a raging storm, with a sea inhabited by a strange giant fish. A sailor near the stern of the boat is about to be [...]

Keywords: boats, people, storms, ships, fish, waves, food, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-04

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The Tower of LondonThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

A woodcut showing a diagram of the Tower of London and its surringings. There are boats and conttages, battlements and towers, with the keep in the middle of it all. The letters annotating various pa [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, battlements, towers, boats, ships, moats, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2009-02-11

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September Harvest Page Template.Home Words for Heart and Hearth (1888)

A page template with three main text areas surrounded by a border featuring pheasant and grouse, rabbit, a country church with its lych-gate, nuts (acorns on the left, horse chestnut at centre-right), [...]

Keywords: autumn, september, thanksgiving, borders, harvest, nuts, churches, ships, fall, rabbits, animals, birds, plants, greyscale

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2017-03-05

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Nelson at Trafalgar.Great Men and Famous Women, vol. II (1894)

The picture shows Lord Horatio Nelson (1758 – 1805) at the Battle of Trafalgar, where he died. “The last battle in which Nelson was engaged was fought off Cape Trafalgar, October 21, 1805. The enemy w [...]

Keywords: ships, battles, people, portraits, rigging, men, costumes, sailors, hats, fire, smoke, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-30

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6.—Tinmouth CastleThe Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

Tinmouth Castle from the North, with a View of the Haven &c. Northumberland. There was a monastery at Tynemouth as early as the 6th century, and the fortifications were builtby the monks for protectio [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, people, cliffs, water, ships, greyscale

Places shown: Tynemouth; Northumberland; England

Added: 2009-11-28

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St. Peter Port, GuernseyThe British Isles (1905)

From the painting by Edwin Hayes, R.H.A., R.I. A sailing boat is tossed about on heavy swell in the English Channel with the port, and a larger sailing ship, in the background, along with a small stea [...]

Keywords: wavess, storms, boats, water, harbors, colour, art, sailing boats, ships, sails

Places shown: St. Peter Port; Guernsey; Channel Islands

Added: 2021-07-12

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