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1024x768, 1600x1200, 302x200, 785x519 | 1787.—Hunting.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Men hunting deer with dogs and horses. In the background a church steeple, reminding us that this is supposed to be a typical country scene. Keywords: hunting, sports, animals, churches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-10-26 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1021x940, 1361x1253, 1814x1670, 217x200, 765x704 | 1788.—Hawking.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “There was one sport exclusively confined to the noble and wealthy orders of society—hawking—which chiefly flourished and declined during the present period [the first half of the 17th century]. To a [...] Keywords: hunting, sports, people, birds, trees, falconry, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-04-28 + S K L |
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1280x1549, 165x200, 539x652, 719x870, 960x1162 | 1789.—The Grand FalconerOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The Grand Falconer is an hereditary position that dates from medieval times, and belongs to the Duke of St. Albans. The man shown here wears a Middle-Eastern-style head-dress with a diadem and carries [...] Keywords: people, falconry, swords, dogs, animals, castles, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-05-08 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 1790.—Shooting.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A hunting party, with men shooting at birds and perhaps animals using crossbows and rifles, and with hunting dogs to retrieve the things they killed. I somehow doubt that these are people who need to [...] Keywords: people, sports, hunting, weapons, animals, dogs, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2009-01-14 + S K L |
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| 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480 | 1800.—Tric-trac, by Teniers.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Four men are playing at dice, a game called tric-trac. A discarded clay pipe on the floor, together with a wine-jug and an open tankard, hint at moral excesses. The men wear seventeenth-century costum [...] Keywords: art, paintings, people, games, dice, beards, gaming, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-12-02 + S K L |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 1801.—A Knotted Garden.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Let us now follow [William Shakespeare] into his retirement (about 1604) at the place so associated with all his early hopes and struggles, and joys and sorrows—Stratford—the place that was evidently, [...] Keywords: shakespeare, gardens, houses, backgrounds, wallpaper, houses, greyscale Places shown: Stratford; Warwickshire; England Added: 2011-05-27 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1016x1212, 1354x1616, 168x200, 762x909 | 1802.—Bowling Green.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A depiction of lawn bowling in the sixteenth century; the people are richly dressed, and one has laid down a sword and plumed hat on the ground. The surroundings include a tall fountain and hedges wit [...] Keywords: games, bowling, people, hedges, costumes, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2010-05-12 + S K L |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 1805.—Arthur’s Show.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The engraving shows the interior of a large tent or pavillion, with a banner reading Socitie of Prince Arthur hanging from the ceiling, festooned with a garland. There is a round table and, in the fro [...] Keywords: archery, weapons, events, soldiers, contests, gaming, gluttony, monks, people, costumes, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Mile End; London; England Added: 2012-12-05 + S K L R N |
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1105x1457, 149x200, 611x820, 815x1093 | 1951.—Battle at WorcesterOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) At top – View of Worcester. (From an old [as of 1845] Print.) The battle was fought on the foreground meadows. In the centre, the flight of [King] Charles before the Parliamentary Soldiers; designed [...] Keywords: battles, horses, weapons, churches, towers, houses, towns, horses, greyscale Places shown: Worcester; Worcestershire; England Added: 2004-04-14 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1128x960, 235x200, 846x720 | 2029.—A Parallel of some of the principal Towers and Steeples built by Sir Christopher WrenOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) 1, St. Dunstan in the East. 2, St. Magnus. 3, St. Benet, Gracechurch-street. 4, St. Edmund the King, Lombard-street. 5, St. Margaret Pattens. 6, Allhallows the Great. 7, St. Mary Abchurch. 8, St Much [...] Keywords: towers, churches, greyscale Places shown: London; England Added: 2004-05-17 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1067x1593, 134x200, 1423x2125, 600x896, 800x1195 | 2045.—Infantry Armour, 1625 (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court; engraved in Skelton’s Armour)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “Armour, on the decline at the close of the last period, continued to be used through the [English] Civil Wars, though it did not exactly justify James I’s characteristic praise—that it not only saved [...] Keywords: soldiers, armour, weapons, swords, shields, people, helmets, greyscale Places shown: England Added: 2006-03-18 + S K L |
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304x636, 406x850, 542x1134, 96x200 | 2046.—Pikeman, 1635. (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court.)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A soldier from the English Civil war. “The trained bands were the ridicule of the Cavaliers, as being composed of apprentices, artisans, and shopkeepers of London; they were called the “thimble and bo [...] Keywords: soldiers, armour, weapons, swords, people, helmets, beards, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-06-12 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 141x200, 589x836, 884x1254 | 2047.—Soldier of Trained Band, 1633Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “One of our military [wood-]cuts represents a soldier of the Trained Bands, 1638 (Fig. 2047).” (p. 211) See Fig. 2046 for more detail. Keywords: soldiers, armour, weapons, guns, hats, beards, weapons, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-06-12 + S K L |
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282x750, 376x1000, 501x1333, 669x1778, 75x200, 892x2371 | 2048.—Cuirassier, 1645 (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) See Fig. 2045. Keywords: soldiers, people, armour, knights, swords, helmets, greyscale Places shown: England Added: 2006-03-18 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1120x1826, 123x200, 460x750, 560x913 | 2055.—Fair Lemons and Oranges.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) A woman with apron tied at her waist carries two baskets, one under her arm and one balanced on her head and resting on top of her broad-brimmed hat; the baskets are filled with fruit. She is a fruit- [...] Keywords: people, street vendors, beggars, women, baskets, fruit, selling, aprons, greyscale Places shown: London; England Added: 2014-02-17 + S K L R N |
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