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Title Page, Old England Alt-England (1888)

Alt-England: Eine Studienreise durch London und die Grafschaften zwischen Kanal und Piktenwallvon Adolf Brennecke Gänzliche Neubearbeitung der 2 und 3 Abteilung der Nordlandfahrten.Which is, Old Engla [...]

Keywords: titel pages, colour, typography, page images

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-06-03

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Front Cover Alt-England (1888)

The front cover of this book about Old England features sailing ships at the coast, near a cliff surmounted by a lighthouse.

Keywords: book covers, colour, ships, rigging, lighthouses, cliffs

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Added: 2022-06-03

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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 [...]

Keywords: 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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Fountains Abbey Alt-England (1888)

This is a spectacular view of the ruins of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. I found a photograph from approximately the same angle in a page on theHistoric UKWeb site.The abbey was founded in 1139, some [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, churches, arches, windows, stonework, greyscale

Places shown: Aldfield; Ripon; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2022-06-03

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Eagle Tower, Caernarfon Alt-England (1888)

Der Adlerturm von Schloss Carnarvon WalesThis engraving, very much in the stype of a pencil or charcoal sketch, shows one corner of Caernarfon Castle in Wales, the Eagle Tower, with its crenellated ba [...]

Keywords: castles, battlements, sketches, towers, turrets, harbours, birds, ruins, mediaeval architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Caernarvon; Gwynedd; Wales

Added: 2022-12-06

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