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| 142x200, 587x830, 783x1107 | 1314.—Northleach church, GloucestershireOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Like many English churches, that at Northleach has been modified over the years. Although part of the aisle dates from the 12th century, most of the church is from the 14th and 15th centuries. [the c [...] Keywords: churches, windows, towers, gravestones, christmas, greyscale Places shown: Northleach; Gloucestershire; England Added: 2005-07-30 + S K L R N |
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1024x640, 1152x720, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 319x200, 960x600 | 1315.—Weston Church.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) An English village church, with an unusually short tower. Probably the building shown here dates from the fourteenth and fifteenth cenuries; it was extensively restored in the 1890s, some fifty or mor [...] Keywords: churches, graveyards, people, religion, funerals, death, sadness, children, greyscale Places shown: Weston; Warwickshire; England Added: 2010-08-23 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 164x200, 642x785, 7614x9312, 857x1048 | 1372.—Caxton. With Paper Marks.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “The famous mercer, William Caxton (Fig. 1372), came back to England with those few,and simple, and rude implements which had cost him so much wealth, labour, time, and anxiety to obtain; and then, fr [...] Keywords: portraits, people, typography, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-09-11 + S K L |
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1185x1028, 1580x1370, 1976x1713, 231x200, 577x500, 666x577, 889x771 | 1373.—Wood-cut of a Knight. (From Caxton’s ‘Game of the Chess’)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A fifteenth-century woodcut of a knight riding a horse; he bears the Fleurs-de-Lys, the French badge. This is from an early printed book, made for a book printed at Westminster Abbey by William Caxton [...] Keywords: knights, people, weapons, horses, fleurs de lys, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-06-19 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1177x950, 1569x1266, 2092x1688, 248x200, 662x534, 882x712 | 1376.—St. Albans Hawking PartyOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Falconry in the 15th century, with St. Albans Abbey in the background. The image is signed S. Johnson, which could be the name of the artist who drew the picture or of the engraver or both. Keywords: hunting, sports, people, birds, trees, abbeys, falconry, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-04-30 + S K L |
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1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x1024, 1280x960, 1400x1050, 1600x1200, 2048x1536, 267x200, 320x240, 640x480, 800x600 | 1377.—Whitsun Morris-Dance.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Whitsunday, or Whitsun, is the seventh Sunday after Easter, and is a time for a holiday. The Morris-dance was originally a Moorish dance. These days it involves men with white socks (always a bad sta [...] Keywords: dancing, people, holidays, morris dancersdancing, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2008-03-01 + S K L |
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1260x588, 1680x784, 429x200, 709x331, 945x441 | 1378.—Bowling Ball. (From a MS. in the Douce Collection.)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) [After the end of the Wars of the Roses, in the fifteenth century] the green sward that had been trampled by unaccustomed feet is re-levelled for the bowls (Fig. 1378) (p. 384) Here, the game appears [...] Keywords: games, people, bowling, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2010-05-10 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x512, 1600x800, 400x200, 800x400 | Two-wheeled plough. (From Harleian MS. No. 4374)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The two-wheeled plough here is pulled by a pair of oxen and has one man behind. Harleian MS. 4374 is Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, by Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesd [...] Keywords: ploughs, farming, agriculture, farming, farm machinery, people, poverty, work, rural, oxen, spring, wheels, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2013-04-26 + S K L |
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1024x768, 1280x720, 1280x800, 1366x768, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1600x900, 1680x1050, 352x200, 700x398, 800x600 | 1381.—Trap-Ball.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) This game may be similar to Ball-and-Trap or Knurr and Spell, two traditional English ball-games that are still played. If so, the ball is on a see-saw an the play will hit the other end of it to mak [...] Keywords: sports, games, people, balls, costumes, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-08-12 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x461, 1366x615, 1821x820, 444x200, 768x346 | 1384.—Golf, or Bandy-ball.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) (From a M.S. in the Douce Collection.) Two men play an ancient form of golf, called bandy-ball. The game was fashionable in the beginning of the 17th C. amongst the English gentry. Keywords: games, people, sports, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2010-05-14 + S K L |
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1143x1288, 178x200, 643x725, 857x966 | 1385.—The Dance in the ‘Garden of Pleasure:’ from the ‘Roman de la Rose.’—(Harl. MS. 4425.)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The Story of the Rose was a very popular mediæval French story about chivalry and knightly love. Here we have an engraving based on a painting in one particular manuscript copy made in about A.D. 1500 [...] Keywords: romance, people, costumes, castles, music, musical instruments, mythological figures, art, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2011-07-17 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1080x437, 1440x583, 1920x777, 495x200, 640x259, 810x328 | 1387.—Leaping through a Hoop. (Ancient MS. engraved in Strutt’s Sports)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A boy, barefoot, stands with arms outstretched; perhaps he has been running. He is about to jump or leap through a ring or hoop held by his two smiling play-mates. ...and if the boys leap through thei [...] Keywords: games, sports, children, people, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-08-11 + S K L |
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1038x702, 1384x936, 296x200, 779x527 | 1389.—Ancient Dice Box.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The government of Edward IV.—a thing of force—grows alarmed at the idea of any decrease of the materials of force, and so the popular sports are condemned, and the instruments used in them are to be d [...] Keywords: dice, games, diagrams, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2010-05-14 + S K L |
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