141x200, 1589x2258, 528x750, 794x1129 | Frontispiece: St. Paul’s Catheral from Cheapside.English Cathedrals (1910) St. Paul’s Cathedral in London replaced a much older building that was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1666. It was designed by Sir Christopher Wren. In the foreground a boy with a dustpan and trowel i [...] Keywords: churches, cathedrals, domes, buildings, roads, street scenes, children, horses, carriages, carts, trees, greyscale Places shown: London; Longon; England Added: 2020-10-15 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 152x200, 1802x2375, 569x750, 901x1188 | Frontispiece: The Snow Sweepers (1865)The Circling Year (1870) A man in boots and tall hat, scarf, jacket and rolled-up trousers, stands on the steps of a grand front porch with stone columns while two faces peer out of a window in this city scene. A boy on the s [...] Keywords: winter, street scenes, snow, people, cities, pillars, children, boys, men, snow shovels, victorian costume, top hats, colour Places shown: LondonLondon; England Added: 2018-01-20 + S K L R N |
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1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 319x200 | View From City Walls (Widescreen Version)Red Book Of York (1901) A version of View from the City Walls cropped for use as a screen background. Choose the size nearest to your computer’s monitor resolution. There is also a 1600x1200 (4:3) version. Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, cathedrals, cityscapes, buildings, people, views, street scenes, greyscale Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England Added: 2008-09-23 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 117x200, 1457x2500, 437x750, 729x1250 | III. – Morning in Amsterdam.Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band I (1895) Morgen in Amsterdam Morning in Amsterdam. The church in the background might be St Nicolaas’ in Amsterdam. Von den jüngeren deutschen Landschaftsmalern hat sich Hans Hermann rasch einen bedeutenden Ru [...] Keywords: art, people, buildings, impressionist paintings, cities, street scenes, morning, greyscale Places shown: Amsterdam; North Holland; Netherlands Added: 2019-02-13 + S K L R N |
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| 1024x768, 1600x1200, 2125x1617, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Guildford Castle, SurreyOld English Country Cottages (1906) the entrance to Guildford castle, Surrey One of the features of the Surrey cottage, indeed of all those counties where tile was the principal roofing material, is the skill with which the tiling is ad [...] Keywords: castles, street scenes, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Guildford; Surrey; England Added: 2008-08-19 + S K L R N |
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1550x875, 354x200, 775x438 | The CasualsMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) The oil painting on which this engraving was based was exhibted under the title, Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward, at the Royal Academy in 1874; it was made to illustrate a scene from Dickens [...] Keywords: poverty, poor, victorian costumes, bare feet, men, women, people, children, street scenes, greyscale Places shown: LondonLondon; England Added: 2021-03-15 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1079x1079, 1439x1439, 1918x1918, 200x200, 809x809 | Ancient Half-Timbered Houses, Foregate StreetThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875) “Turning now from the outside of the walls to the inside, we must remember that the four Roman Streets, intersecting one another at right angles, have always been the features which determined the who [...] Keywords: houses, street scenes, horses, carts, greyscale Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England Added: 2006-10-11 + S K L R N |
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1517x1758, 172x200, 759x879 | Lantern-carrierLondon (Volume I) (1841) A bearded man wearing a broad-brimmed hat and wearing a heavy winter coat walks forward carrying a spear in his left hand and a lit lantern, or lanthorn, in his right. ‘Lanthorn, and a whole candle li [...] Keywords: people, street scenes, lanterns, weapons, spears, beards, winter, greyscale Places shown: LondonLondon; England Added: 2012-12-15 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 2048x1536, 267x200, 800x600 | Leys Street.Antwerpia Laystraat. Rue Leys. Leystrasse. Leys street. An old (undated) photograph of Laystraat in Antwerp. I can see signs for the Norwich Union, and for a large hotel (Metropole?) and also for F. Dierckx. Keywords: cities, buildings, street scenes, old photogrphs, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Antwerp; Belgium Added: 2007-08-15 + S K L R N |
Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required | 1360x1095, 248x200, 750x604 | Old Curiosity Shop, LondonFamous Scenes and Cities (1894) Charles Dickens’ story The Old Curiosity Shop was published in 1840; the photograph here dates from 1893 or so and shoes the London shop of H. Poole, Waste Paper Dealer; on the side of the building, u [...] Keywords: dickens, london, shops, streets, street scenes, cobbles, signs, windows, fog, greyscale Places shown: LondonLondon; England Added: 2020-09-19 + S K L R N |
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1230x1230, 1538x1538, 200x200, 692x692, 923x923 | 5th November: Guy FawkesHone’s Everyday Book (1826) Boys carry a stuffed dummy, a straw-stuffed effigy of Guy Fawkes, through a town; the figure is arranged on a chair supported by two poles, a litter. In the background people watch, or raise their hat [...] Keywords: people, children, street scenes, religion, greyscale Places shown: England Added: 2007-08-31 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Street Music—1789.London (Volume I) (1841) Dayes, who published a collection of street views about 1789, has given us the group which concludes our paper. Here we have the organ, the triangle, the tambourine, and the hurdy-gurdy,—each strivi [...] Keywords: musicians, street scenes, poverty, busking, people, instruments, animals, children, dogs, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-12-23 + S K L |
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1600x1600, 200x200, 675x675, 900x900 | The Exchequer Gate and the West Front of the Cathedral.English Cathedrals (1910) At Lincoln [Cathdral,] Lancet-Pointed work is again preponderant, but Decorated work is very conspicuous and singularly fine, Norman features still remain, and Perpendicular art completes the majestic [...] Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, street scenes, crowds, drawings, greyscale Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England Added: 2008-09-11 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1254x1013, 1673x1351, 2091x1688, 248x200, 700x565, 941x760 | The West Front, From the Minster-yard.English Cathedrals (1910) The Exchequer Gate [...] admits us into a small paved square—the Minster-yard—surrounded on three sides by low ecclesiastical dwellings. Filling the whole of the fourth side, just in front of us, ri [...] Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, street scenes, costumes, victoriana, crowds, drawings, buildings, arches, entrances, colour Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England Added: 2008-09-11 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1220x852, 200x140, 2440x1705, 750x524 | The old tollbooth in Canongate, EdinburghNorthland Journeys, Part I (1881) Die alte Tolbooth in Canongate The old tollbooth is actually rather large and ornate, and dates from 1591. It is the building on the right-hand side of the street, with the clock and the turrets, or b [...] Keywords: streets, buildings, medieval architecture, turrets, wagons, carts, people, street scenes, greyscale Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland Added: 2025-05-02 + S K L R N |
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163x200, 1962x2404, 612x750, 981x1202 | 2089.—Barbican. (Designed from old maps and Elevations, temp. James and Charles I.)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) An old-world street in London, with half-timbered houses overhanging narrow streets and alleys. Old London Bridge (Fig. 2090) has been already described; it will be sufficient to say of Barbican (Fig. [...] Keywords: streets, street scenes, houses, buildings, roads, dogs, old england, tudor houses, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-11-14 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 100x200, 1435x2866, 717x1433 | Fraile mendicante, en Venecia.El Mundo Ilustrado (1883) A mendicant friar begging on the streets of Venice. The illustration accompanies an article about Venice. In it, we see a long narrow street, less than six feet wide, paved with flagstones. The buildi [...] Keywords: street scenes, people, transactions, commerce, buying, paying, men, women, alleyways, priests, religion, christianity, mendicant priests, costumes, cities, greyscale Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy Added: 2018-09-18 + S K L R N |
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