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Frontispiece: Charles the King walked for the last time through the streets of London
An 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 be [...]
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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 is [...]
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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 [...]
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winter, street scenes, snow, people, cities, pillars, children, boys, men, snow shovels, victorian costume, top hats, colour
Places shown:
London
London; England
Added: 2018-01-20
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The Coronation Chair
Old 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 [...]
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colour, chairs, royalty, interiors, cathedrals
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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.
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government, buildings, royalty, water, towers, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
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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 [...]
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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 occup [...]
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abbeys, churches, castles, anglosaxon remains, greyscale
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Westminster; London; England
Added: 2005-03-17
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[p.210] The Tower of London
London (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. Pey [...]
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castles, maps, plans, diagrams, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
Places shown:
London
London; England
Added: 2005-07-15
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View of St. Paul’s Cathedral from the Thames
Alt-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 sto [...]
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cathedrals, circles, windows, sailing boats, ships, boats, churches, domes, london, rivers, river thames, greyscale
Places shown:
London
London; England
Added: 2022-06-03
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Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey
Pentateuch 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 [...]
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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.
John Nash, Architect.
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palaces, architecture, photographs, buildings, columns, greyscale
Places shown:
London
London; England
Added: 2012-06-09
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The Casuals
Magazine 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: [...]
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poverty, poor, victorian costumes, bare feet, men, women, people, children, street scenes, greyscale
Places shown:
London
London; England
Added: 2021-03-15
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Interior of the Temple Church.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
The Temple Church was built by (orfor) the Knights Templar in London in the 12th Century. Some time after the Knights Templar were destroyed (in 1307) the temple was given by Edward II to the Knights [...]
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interiors, colour, churches, people, ceilings, columns, arches, pillars, costumes
Places shown:
London
London; England
Added: 2012-08-13
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Priot Bolton’s Garden-house at Canonbury
London (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 [...]
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gardens, greyscale
Places shown:
Islington; London; England
Added: 2009-04-27
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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 [...]
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crypts, people, drinking, barrels, darkness, interiors, churches, arches, pillars, lamps, spooky, greyscale
Places shown:
London
London; England
Added: 2013-06-04
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Jailer walking into the dark
Old 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 Sa [...]
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wallpaper, backgrounds, crypts, darkness, spooky, people, darkness, arches, interiors, greyscale
Places shown:
London
London; England
Added: 2013-06-04
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