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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 119x200, 421x709, 562x947, 749x1262 | Colour plate: Morris DanceOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) This plate is inside the front cover, before the title-page, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to call it a frontispiece: it doesn’t face the title page. It shows some jesters, harlequins and dancers [...] Keywords: morris dancing, dancers, costumes, robin hood, maid marian, medieval costumes, jesters, men, women, kings, queens, colour, stained glass, windows, page images Places shown: none Added: 2019-01-30 + S K L |
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140x200, 579x825, 773x1101 | Title Page for Volume IOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) OLD ENGLAND: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal and POPULAR ANTIQUITIES. Volume I. London: Charles Knight &co., Ludgate Street. 1845. There is an inscription on the upper [...] Keywords: title pages, page images, colour Places shown: none Added: 2005-10-21 + S K L |
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1139x1590, 143x200, 641x894, 854x1193 | 1.—Ground Plan of Stonehenge in its present state.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) This plan of Stonehenge is, of course, from 1845 or earlier. “Keeping in view the ground plan of Stonehenge in its present state (Fig. 1), we will ask the reader to follow us while we describe the app [...] Keywords: plans, ruins, temples, megaliths, druids, stone circles, greyscale Places shown: Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England Added: 2005-02-01 + S K L R N |
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1307x500, 1742x666, 2323x888, 524x200 | 3.—Stonehenge. – Perspective Elevation, restored.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “The external appearance which the whole work would have if restored, is shown in the perspective elevation. (Fig. 3.)” (p. 3) Keywords: ruins, megaliths, temples, druids, stone circles, greyscale Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England Added: 2005-02-01 + S K L R N |
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1182x422, 562x200, 841x300 | 4.—Stonehenge: section 1 to 2 (Restored Plan, Fig. 2), 105 feet.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “The internal arrangment is exhibited in the section.” (p. 3) Keywords: plans, ruins, megaliths, temples, druids, stone circles, greyscale Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England Added: 2005-02-02 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480 | 5.—Stonehenge.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “The present arrangement of the ruin [of Stonehenge] is shown in Figs. 5 and 6.” (p. 3) Keywords: ruins, megaliths, temples, people, animals, sheep, druids, backgrounds, wallpaper, stone circles, greyscale Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England Added: 2005-02-02 + S K L R N |
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1000x719, 1334x959, 1778x1279, 278x200, 750x540 | 6.—StonehengeOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “The present [1845] appearance of the ruin [Stonehenge] is shown in Figs. 5 and 6.” (p. 3) “The description which we have thus given, brief as it is, may appear somewhat tedious; but it is necessary t [...] Keywords: ruins, megaliths, people, sheep, temples, druids, stone circles, greyscale Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England Added: 2005-02-11 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 7.—Druidical Circle at DarabOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Legend ascribes the foundation of the city to Darius, hence its name Darab-gerd (Darius-town) “Figures 7 and 8 represent a Druidical circle, and a single upright stone standing alone near the circle, [...] Keywords: megaliths, ruins, people, camels, druids, backgrounds, wallpaper, stone circles, greyscale Places shown: Darab; Fars; Persia Added: 2005-02-11 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 9.—Druidical Circle of JerseyOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “[...] the circle of Darab resembles the Druidical circle of Jersey (Fig. 9), although the circle [in Jersey] is very much smaller, and the stones of very inconsiderable dimentsions,—a copy in miniatu [...] Keywords: druids, megaliths, ruins, temples, backgrounds, wallpaper, stone circles, greyscale Places shown: Jersey Added: 2005-02-25 + S K L |
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1289x1053, 245x200, 725x592, 967x790 | 10.—Astronomical Instrument.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The precise description which Cæsar has thus left us if tghe religion of the Druids—a religion which, whatever doubts may have been thrown upon the subject, would appear to have been the prevailing re [...] Keywords: astrology, occult, druids, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2005-03-13 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1258x818, 1677x1090, 308x200, 943x613 | 11.—Gaulish Deity. Cernunnos.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The Celtic god Cernunnos is crowned with antlers. He is sometimes also called as Herne the Hunter, and may be the Green Man of British folklore. “[...] Under the church of Notre Dame, at Paris, were f [...] Keywords: spirit, druids, gods, religion, greyscale Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France Added: 2005-03-13 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1152x1436, 160x200, 648x808, 864x1077 | 13.—Two Druids. Bas-relief found at Autun.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) This carved likeness was found in an earth burial-mound, a barrow. “These remarkable monuments contain not only the bones and the ashes of the dead, but various articles of utility and ornament, domes [...] Keywords: people, beards, astrology, druids, robes, greyscale Places shown: Autun; Burgandy; France Added: 2005-02-13 + S K L R N |
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1232x580, 1643x773, 426x200, 924x435 | 14.—Druidial OrnamentsOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “These remarkable monuments contain not only the bones and the ashes of the dead, but various articles of utility and ornament, domestic utensils, weapons of war, decorations of the person, perhaps in [...] Keywords: druids, jewellery, greyscale Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England Added: 2005-03-17 + S K L R N |
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