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Frontispiece: Charles the King walked for the last time through the streets of LondonAn Island Story (1920)

King Charles is followed by a priest, and surrounded by soldiers with lances. He wears 17th-century costume. [King Charles I] had been foolish, he had been wicked, but now, in the face of death, he b [...]

Keywords: royalty, soldiers, people, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2009-05-05

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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

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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

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45.—Coronation ChairOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The celebrated stone which now forms the seat of the coronation chair of the sovereigns of England is a flat stone, nearly square. It formerly stood in Argyleshire, according to Buchanan; who also sa [...]

Keywords: royalty, chairs, rocks, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster Abbey; Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-07-09

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The Coronation ChairOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The celebrated stone which now forms the seat of the coronation chair of the sovereigns of England is a flat stone, nearly square. It formerly stood in Argyleshire, according to Buchanan; who also say [...]

Keywords: colour, chairs, royalty, interiors, cathedrals

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2012-11-17

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Houses of Parliament from the River, temp Charles II.London (Volume II) (1841)

The Houses of Parliament in Westminster, in the time of King Charles II, so between (roughly) 1650 and 1685; this is of course long before th 19th century changes, and before Big Ben was built.

Keywords: government, buildings, royalty, water, towers, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2009-04-21

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Brewer’s Vat.London (Volume IV) (1841)

A giant beer-barrel at a brewery in London in the 1840s. “The wonderful magnitude of the great London breweries is a familiar source of wonderment. The stacks of casks that might reach, placed side by [...]

Keywords: beer, barrels, people, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-06-04

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210.—Edward the Confessor’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey,—now used as the Pix office.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Under its original name of the Isle of Bramble or thorn-ea, Westminster was a place of importance before London existed. [...] “The Saxon king Sebert (597 – 616) built a monastery on the site now occ [...]

Keywords: abbeys, churches, castles, anglosaxon remains, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2005-03-17

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211.—Windows from the Palace of WestminsterOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The windows are supposed here to be of Saxon origin; that is, dating between A.D. 440 and A.D. 1100 or so. “A doorway remaining of the old palace at Westminster exhibits the triangular arch (Fig. 212) [...]

Keywords: windows, arches, anglosaxon remains, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2005-05-05

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[p.210] The Tower of LondonLondon (Volume II) (1841)

A birds-eye view: a map or plan of the castle. From a Print published by the Royal Antiquarian Society, and engraved from the Survey made in 1597, by W. Haiward and J. Gascoigne, by order of Sir J. Pe [...]

Keywords: castles, maps, plans, diagrams, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2005-07-15

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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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Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster AbbeyPentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges (1891)

A printing office, with an engraver (I think) at left, a proof-reader, a typesetter (at the back) next to the person operating the press itself, and, at right, a boy wearing tights and I think barefoo [...]

Keywords: typography, printing, children, pictures of books, books, people, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-01-21

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IV.—West Front of Buckingham Palace.Monumental Architecture (1910)

The lack of a flag probably means the King (at the time) was not at home. Thewing on the left today is the Queen’s private disco and mosh pit.

Keywords: palaces, architecture, photographs, buildings, columns, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2012-06-09

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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

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Priot Bolton’s Garden-house at CanonburyLondon (Volume II) (1841)

From the house we pass to the lawn, which is terminated by a wall with a raised and embowered terrace, from which we look over on the other side to the kitchen-garden, the New River, and thence onward [...]

Keywords: gardens, greyscale

Places shown: Islington; London; England

Added: 2009-04-27

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Man putting up a posterLondon (Volume V) (1843)

A man us using a pair of brooms on long poles to stick up a poster advertising an auction on a wall already plastered with advertising posters. He wears a top hat but his trousers have holes and patc [...]

Keywords: advertisements, people, posters, hats, victorian costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2019-02-27

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524.—Plan of the Priory of St. Bartholomew.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This twelfth-century priory (founded in 1123) was largely ruined, but the church was restored starting in the 1860s; this plan of the area was published in 1840 and predates any restoration work. Of t [...]

Keywords: plans, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Smithfield; London; England

Added: 2012-08-15

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525.—The Crypt, St. Bartholomew’s Church.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A dark stone-vaulted crypt extends as far as we can see; a man walks away from us, holding a burning taper out to light his way and carrying a heavy key. In the foreground a wine-barrel serves to hold [...]

Keywords: crypts, people, drinking, barrels, darkness, interiors, churches, arches, pillars, lamps, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2013-06-04

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Jailer walking into the darkOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A man walks with a lighted taper into the back of the crypt. In the foreground we see empty wine-bottles and a wine-barrel (or beer-barrel). This is a detail taken from a larger picture, The crypt of [...]

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, crypts, darkness, spooky, people, darkness, arches, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2013-06-04

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527.—The Western Entrance, Interior, St. Bartholomew’s church.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There can be no doubt that we have the original walls, pillars, and arches of the twelfth century; the massive, grand, and simple style of the whole tells truly through the date of their erection. (p. [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, norman architecture, people, arches, pillars, windows, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2013-09-24

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