Items matching castles, colour (results page 23)

Sonnet Introduction BorderLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The border and decoration from page 103. An angel, wearing a toga, but with bare feet and bare-legged, beckons to the writer, depicted as a monk with a robe and medieval pointed shoes. I included fai [...]

Keywords: monks, angels, robes, borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-13

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104.—Plan of Porchester Castle, Hants.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

[...] the fact is certain that in several of the undoubted Roman castles, or camps, is a small building of cruciform shape, placed not far from the centre of the enclosure. At Porchester (Fig. 104) an [...]

Keywords: plans, castles, roman remains, ruins, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Porchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2011-06-05

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105.—General View of the Ruin of Pevensey Castle.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Anderida, the sea-fort of Sussex, is held by some to be Hastings, by others to be East Bourn. It is not our purpose to enter upon any controversial discussion of such matters; but it appears to us [...]

Keywords: ruins, castles, roman remains, norman architecture, trees, people, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-06-22

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106.—Plan of Pevensey Castle.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

On the north side was a few years since a fragment of a supposed Saxon keep, held to be an addition to the original Roman Castrum (Fig. 109). But the most important and interesting adaptation to anoth [...]

Keywords: maps, plans, castles, roman remains, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-06-24

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The Signs and PlanetsAstrology (1806)

A TABLE exhibiting at one View the Natures Dignities, Triplicities & Affections of the Signs and Planets.

Opposite Vol I p. 107.

Keywords: astrology, occult, charts, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-03-10

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107.—Walls and Gate, Pevensey.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Here, as at Richborough, have the Roman galleys anchored; sheltered by the bold promontory of Beachy Head from the south-west gales, and secured from the attacks of pirates by the garrison who guarded [...]

Keywords: ruins, roman remains, castles, towers, walls, people, sheep, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-07-24

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108.—Walls, Pevensey.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The walls at Pevensey Castle show some Roman features as well as later additions. The external towers, which are indicated on the plan, are quite solid; some of these have been undermined and have fal [...]

Keywords: ruins, roman remains, castles, towersruins, people, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-08-09

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109.—Supposed Saxon Keep, Pevensey.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Sheep graze in the foreground; in the background a stone archway frames a tunnel through heavy masonry, a ruined tower. The ruin on this side is highly picturesque, large masses of the original wall h [...]

Keywords: ruins, castles, towers, arches, sheep, animals, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-07-25

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The Well of KnowledgeThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

The jester leads the donkey (or mule) to the well of knowedge (written, quaintly, “Knowledge. HerWelle”) but, stubbronly, the mule refuses to drink. The mule is wearing the board and gown of a univers [...]

Keywords: colour, humour, jesters, wells, sketches, cartoons

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-07

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Letter KOld English Country Cottages (1906)

A decorative initial capital K from page 11. Judging by the carefully-trimmed shrubbery I’d say the initial was made for the book.

Keywords: initials, letterk, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-07-31

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110.—Sally Port, Pevensey.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The ponderous walls of the Roman dominion are almost merged in the greater interest of the moated keep of the Norman conquest. It will be sufficient for us here to present engravings of the Norman wor [...]

Keywords: castles, walls, arches, entrances, ruins, norman architecture, people, animals, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-07-27

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111.—Norman Keep, Pevensey.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A ruined castle with broken towers overgrown with ivy looms in the background on a hill or mound; in the foreground people admire the view; to emphasise the pastoral nature of the scene there are also [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, ruins, towers, ivy, people, animals, norman architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-08-09

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112.—Interior of Norman Tower, Pevensey.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

But the most important and interesting adaptation to another period of the Roman Pevensey is the Norman keep, the form of which is indicated on the Plan 106, at the south-east, and which was evidently [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, interiors, norman architecture, windows, walls, people, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-07-11

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Page 113. Four Footed Beasts.Buch der Natur [Book of Nature] (1481)

Cow and camel, Elk and Elephant (or is that a unicorn on the right?), lion and horse, rabbit and hound!

The page has only this illustration, no text.

Keywords: animals, paintings, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-10

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115. Love Hath So Long Possessed MeLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Full page image showing the sonnet and also the decoration. I have scanned the angel separately, as the next image. Love hath so long possess’d me for his own And made his lordship so familiar That he [...]

Keywords: page images, colour, angels, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-13

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Angel from page 115La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The angel from page 115. The angel carries a music book (I think, or possibly a harp), and kneels with hands clasped as if in prayer. He wears a white robe and has golden wings. I cut out this detail [...]

Keywords: angels, christmas, colour, religion

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-13

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CambridgeshireThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A public domain map of the County of Cambridgeshire in England, from 1783. Places marked on the map include the following: Abbingtons, Arrington, Audre, Batsham, Bedelhey, Bigleswade (Bedfordshire), B [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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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 also another image of Reading Abbey.

There is a newer scan of this engraving.

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, people, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 1999-10-28

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Section II, Accidents of Arms, TincturesThe Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

Keywords: page images, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2003-02-26

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The Kitchen Wall, PeterhouseCambridge (1920)

“But the history of the English Universities must be considered as that of communities into whose lives colleges were introduced for a social rather than a scholastic purpose. Cambridge grew into a se [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings, courtyards

Places shown: Peterhouse College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-28

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