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1106x767, 1475x1023, 288x200, 830x575 | Methley HallOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “Methley Hall, or Methley Park, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, seven miles south-east from Leeds, is the seat of the Saviles, Earls Mexborough, which family have held the manor for several centuries [...] Keywords: interiors, windows, ceilings, arches, stairs, colour, furniture, manors, halls Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England Added: 2005-08-24 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Methley Hall, Wallpaper VersionOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A version of the Methley Hall coloured engraving; this version has been cropped slightly so that it’s the right size for a computer desktop background, or wallpaper. No, I don’t know why some people p [...] Keywords: backgrounds, manors, colour, interiors, windows, ceilings, arches, stairs, furniture, wallpaper Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England Added: 2005-08-24 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 2132x1463, 2560x1600, 267x200, 500x313, 800x600 | 1423.—Hever Castle. (From an Original Sketch)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Anne Bullen [Anne Boleyn] behaved throughout the whole affair with the utmost prudence. Shehad determiend to be the king’s wife, not his mistress; and from that determnation ensued events, the import [...] Keywords: castles, cattle, sheep, animals, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Hever; Kent; England Added: 2008-03-03 + S K L R N |
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1437x1126, 255x200, 893x700 | Wolsey’s Hall at Hampton CourtOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) In 1514, in the parish of Hampton, Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York began building a magnificent palace on the north bank of the River Thames... Tudor Histor Web page.“The passage to Wolsey’s Hall is [...] Keywords: interiors, flags, people, windows, colour, manors, castles Places shown: East Molesey; Surrey; England Added: 2004-03-04 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 1532.—Interior of the Beauchamp TowerOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The Beauchamp Tower in the Tower of London; the tower was built in the thirteenth century during the reign of King Edward I. It’s named after Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, who was imprisoned ther [...] Keywords: castles, interiors, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: LondonLondon; England Added: 2005-08-17 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 1672.—Hulme Hall, Lancashire.—Front View.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Hulme Hall, Lancashire (Fig. 1672), may be looked on as a fair specimen of the very numerous timber-houses that form so conspicuous a class in the domestic architecture of Elizabeth’s time. And most [...] Keywords: buildings, architecture, tudor houses, towers, houses, people, horses, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Newton Heath; Lancashire; England Added: 2011-01-07 + S K L R N |
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1748x1260, 277x200, 874x630 | 1675.—North side of the Priory Cloisters, Christ’s Hospital.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Christ’s Hospital is a charity-funded boarding school founded in the sixteenth century and still open today. It’s also known as the bluecoat school because of the school uniform My father (Eric Quin) [...] Keywords: buildings, exteriors, acrches, doors, schools, children, boys, people, windows, chimneys, greyscale Places shown: Horsham; Essex; England Added: 2018-01-30 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1324x1724, 154x200, 576x750 | Staircase at Claverton, SomersetshireOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) (From Richardson’s ‘Elizabethan Architecture.’) This ornate portico leads to a hallway with a wide staircase climbing upward; there’s a carved animal, perhaps, on the newel post at the foot of the sta [...] Keywords: staircases, steps, interiors, elizabethan architecture, entrances, doorways, arches, colums, gothic architecture, greyscale Places shown: Claverton; Somerset; England Added: 2018-06-06 + S K L R N |
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1024x774, 1552x1173, 265x200 | Hall at Ockwell’s, Berkshire.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Coloured in the original book.“The old manor-house of Ockwells is situated about one mile westward from bray, in Berkshire. It is one of those mansions built chiefly of timber framework, of which man [...] Keywords: windows, interiors, colour, paneling, people, animals, furniture Places shown: Bray; Berkshire; England Added: 2004-03-04 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1101x1284, 172x200, 661x770, 826x963 | 1731.—Gray’s Inn Hall.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) o Gray’s Inn Hall (Fig. 1731) is superior to that of Lincoln’s Inn or the Inner temple, and little inferior to the Middle Temple Hall. Its chief architectural attractions are its timber roof, carved [...] Keywords: interiors, halls, windows, ceilings, rafters, greyscale Places shown: London; England Added: 2007-08-22 + S K L R N |
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1219x716, 1625x955, 340x200, 914x537 | 1734.—Man and Woman in Stocks.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “A stockes to staye sure and safely detayne Lazy, lewd leu[?]terers that lawes do offend.”(Harman’s ‘Caveat,’ &c.) “The stocks are still, we believe, occasionally used [1845], though the sooner they t [...] Keywords: punishments, people, bare feet, beer, stocks, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2005-01-18 + S K L |
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1005x896, 1340x1195, 224x200, 2680x2389, 752x670 | 1736.—Genings and BluntOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Nicholas Blunt was a Counterfeit Crank; that is, he pretended to be a sick person who went by the name of Nicholas Genings. The man pictured here (in and out of disguise) was caught, and “whip’t at a [...] Keywords: people, criminals, disguises, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-02-27 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1112x942, 2223x1883, 236x200, 750x635 | 1737.—Portraits of Poets At the time of ShakespeareOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A montage of eight portraits of famous sixteenth-century men who were poets. The portraits have individual oval frames and sometimes oxtangonal inner frames, and there are vines and perhaps acanthus l [...] Keywords: people, poets, portraits, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-06-26 + S K L |
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