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Front Cover for English CathedralsEnglish Cathedrals (1910)

This copy of the book is bound in blue buckram cloth with gold (foil-stamped) lettering: ENGLISH CATHEDRALS BY Mrs. Schvyler Van Rensselar With Illustrations bu Joseph Pennell. The writing (after the [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, blue, lettering

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Added: 2020-10-15

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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 i [...]

Keywords: 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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Title page, English CathedralsEnglish Cathedrals (1910)

ENGLISH CATHEDRALS Canterbury · Peterborough · Durham Salisbury · Lichfield · Lincoln · Ely · Wells Winchester · Gloucester · York · London by Mrs. Schuyler van Renssalaer, author of “Henry Hobson Ric [...]

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Added: 2020-10-15

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Initial letter I with Transitional CapitalEnglish Cathedrals (1910)

This letter “I” is set about a sketch of an English “transitional” capital from the Galilee Chapel of Durham cathedral. The decorated top-part of a pillar is called a capital, and transitional architc [...]

Keywords: capitals, sketches, architecture, historiated initials, letteri, initials, pillars, architecture, transitional architecture, cathedrals, greyscale

Places shown: Durham; County Durham; England

Added: 2025-03-31

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One Bay of the “Angel Choir,” Interior, Lincoln CathedralEnglish Cathedrals (1910)

A view as if one were standing in the chancel between the stone Rood Screen and the small step leading up to the sanctuary with its alter, and looking to the side of the great building. The architectu [...]

Keywords: decorated style, gothic architecture, transitional architecture, cathedrals, interiors, columns, windows, tracery, churches, chuch architecture, stonework, pillars, greyscale

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Added: 2025-04-07

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The Exchequer Gate and the West Front of the Cathedral.English Cathedrals (1910)

At Lincoln [Cathdral,] Lancet-Pointed work is again preponderant, but Decorated work is very conspicuous and singularly fine, Norman features still remain, and Perpendicular art completes the majestic [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, street scenes, crowds, drawings, greyscale

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-09-11

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The West Front, From the Minster-yard.English Cathedrals (1910)

The Exchequer Gate [...] admits us into a small paved square—the Minster-yard—surrounded on three sides by low ecclesiastical dwellings. Filling the whole of the fourth side, just in front of us, ri [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, street scenes, costumes, victoriana, crowds, drawings, buildings, arches, entrances, colour

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-09-11

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