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Reading Abbey (Background 1) The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Version of theReading Abbeyengraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper).

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey (Background 2) The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Version of theReading Abbeyengraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and also made darker and with reduced contrast, so it’s less distracting.

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey (Background 3) The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Version of theReading Abbeyengraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and also made lighter and with reduced contrast, so it’s less distracting.

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey (Coloured version) The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Version of theReading Abbeyengraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and then coloured (by Liam Quin).

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey (Background 4) The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Version of theReading Abbeyengraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and also made lighter and with reduced contrast, so it’s less distracting.

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey, Plate 1 The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Publish’d the 24th of May 1784 by S. Hooper.The abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I of England, who was buried here.The abbey was closed at the Reformation, and used as a private home for a time [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey, Berkshire. The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Engraving dated 1773. The paper is slightly buckled, sorry.

There is alsoanother image of Reading Abbey.

There is anewer scanof this engraving.

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, people, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 1999-10-28

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Reading Abbey Plate 2 The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

“This plateshewsthe south view of the remains of this once magnificent abbey, majestic even in its ruins!” (p. 17)The engraving is signed:Jan 24 1773 Godfrey Sc.I scanned this once before: theolder sc [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, people, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-11-15

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389.—Ruins of reading Abbey in 1721. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Reading Abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I; it became very wealthy, no doubt in part because of the corruption that was endemic to the Roman Catholic Church. At the Dissolution of the Monasteri [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches, people, animals, wallpaper, backgrounds, anglosaxon remains, greyscale

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2005-05-22

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