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| Ruins of Lindisfarne PrioryThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) The caption reads, History Preserving the Monuments of Antiquity. The side View of Lindisfarne, or Holy Island Monastery, Northumberland. Pub. 25 May 1781 by S. Hooper The image is signed, S. Spurrow [...] Keywords: abbeys, castles, windows, arches, ruins, people, clouds, bare feet, nudity, colour Places shown: Lindisfarne; Northumberland; England Added: 2003-02-28 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1300x1589, 164x200, 548x670, 731x894, 975x1192 | Boy thumbing his nose out of a windowLes Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843) The frontispiece shows Jean-Paul Choppart, the boy the book is about, looking out of a circular stone window and thumbing his nose, or perhaps pretending to play the flute. He has curly hair. I am not [...] Keywords: boys, people, windows, cartoons, gestures, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-02-07 + S K L |
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174x200, 1767x2027, 663x760, 884x1014 | Fanny in the Library.Look at the Bright Side (1883) A girl sits in a chair gazin out of the window. She rests her chin on her arm. She has a ribbon in her hair tied in a bow, a dress that goes just over her knees, stockings, and shoes. The window has [...] Keywords: children, boredom, windows, people, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-06-18 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1118x1646, 136x200, 559x823 | Jacobean Houses in Frankwell, ShrewsburyEnglish Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922) These houses were built some time after 1620, so they are after the Tudor period. Keywords: tudor, houses, streets, windows, entrances, colour Places shown: Shrewsbury; Shropshire; England Added: 2004-03-04 + S K L R N |
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| 1120x1566, 143x200, 560x783 | Stanton Court: The Centre of West PointEnglish Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922) The porch and oriel projections are small, and gable-ended wings stretch forth. [p. xvi]. Nowadays you can stay at Stanton Court Cottages (I think this is the same place; it’s near Broadway, Worceste [...] Keywords: manors, windows, creeper, windows, entrances, colour Places shown: Stanton; Broadway; Worcestershire; England Added: 2004-03-04 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 119x200, 421x709, 562x947, 749x1262 | Colour plate: Morris DanceOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) This plate is inside the front cover, before the title-page, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to call it a frontispiece: it doesn’t face the title page. It shows some jesters, harlequins and dancers [...] Keywords: morris dancing, dancers, costumes, robin hood, maid marian, medieval costumes, jesters, men, women, kings, queens, colour, stained glass, windows, page images Places shown: none Added: 2019-01-30 + S K L |
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134x200, 1703x2550, 501x750, 852x1275 | H Sperling: HorrifiedModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901) Heinrich Sperling was a German artist known for painting animals, especially dogs and horses, but also cats. His paintings were full of realism but also often humour. Here, in Entsetzt (Horrified), a [...] Keywords: animals, pets, dogs, cats, surrealism, windows, colour Places shown: none Added: 2020-03-01 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1152x864, 1600x1200, 2384x1600, 267x200, 800x600 | Plate III. Gloucester Cathedral. West Front and South Side.The Cathedral Churches of England (1925) Gloucester Cathedral was built 900 years ago (it was completed in 1100); it was originally the Abbey of St. Peter, part of a Benedictine monastery. Here we see the towers and spires, the gothic windo [...] Keywords: cathedrals, churches, towers, windows, gothic, gothic architecture, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour Places shown: Gloucester; Gloucestershire; England Added: 2010-05-22 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent).Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century (1929) The lord and lady are dining on the daïs, the retainers grouped round the hearth. Notice the dog and the jester. From a model of the Great Hall at Penshurst. Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, New York [...] Keywords: interiors, windows, halls, manors, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England Added: 2005-07-08 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Reading Abbey (Background 1)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) Version of the Reading Abbey engraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper). Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England Added: 2004-10-09 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Reading Abbey (Coloured version)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) Version of the Reading Abbey engraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and then coloured (by Liam Quin). Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour, backgrounds, wallpaper Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England Added: 2004-10-09 + S K L R N |
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1036x752, 1382x1003, 1842x1337, 275x200, 777x564 | Reading Abbey, Plate 1The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) Publish’d the 24th of May 1784 by S. Hooper. The abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I of England, who was buried here. The abbey was closed at the Reformation, and used as a private home for a ti [...] Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England Added: 2004-10-09 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1107x1400, 158x200, 554x700, 830x1050 | 92.—Kirby HallEnglish Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922) 92. – The Porch and Hall Windows.
As seen through the central arch of the loggia. Keywords: manors, windows, entrances, arches, ruins, clouds, colour Places shown: Corby; Northamptonshire; England Added: 2003-11-27 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1045x1375, 152x200, 570x750, 684x900 | 112.—Interior of Norman Tower, Pevensey.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) But the most important and interesting adaptation to another period of the Roman Pevensey is the Norman keep, the form of which is indicated on the Plan 106, at the south-east, and which was evidently [...] Keywords: castles, ruins, interiors, norman architecture, windows, walls, people, greyscale Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England Added: 2012-07-11 + S K L R N |
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