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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 37.—Kit’s Coty House.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Sheep graze by the neolithic burial tomb while two shepherds wait. “The high road from Rochester to Maidstone presents several of those rich and varied prospects which so often in England compensate t [...] Keywords: druids, megaliths, tombs, people, sheep, animals, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Maidstone; Kent; England Added: 2005-10-01 + S K L R N |
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1303x891, 1737x1188, 292x200, 733x501, 977x668 | 39.—Trevethy StoneOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Trevethy Stone, also known as Trethevy Quoit, is a Domen or Cromlech near Liskeard in Cornwall. The Modern Antiquarian has some photographs. “At Plas Newydd, in the Isle of Anglesey, are two cromlechs [...] Keywords: druids, tombs, ruins, megaliths, greyscale Places shown: Liskeard; Cornwall; England Added: 2005-11-10 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1152x864, 1600x1200, 2384x1600, 267x200, 800x600 | Plate III. Gloucester Cathedral. West Front and South Side.The Cathedral Churches of England (1925) Gloucester Cathedral was built 900 years ago (it was completed in 1100); it was originally the Abbey of St. Peter, part of a Benedictine monastery. Here we see the towers and spires, the gothic windo [...] Keywords: cathedrals, churches, towers, windows, gothic, gothic architecture, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour Places shown: Gloucester; Gloucestershire; England Added: 2010-05-22 + S K L R N |
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| 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x1024, 1280x960, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Gloucester Cathedral Old Print - Wallpaper VersionThe Cathedral Churches of England (1925) A version of Plate III without the border, scaled very slightly to make a computer desktop or wallpaper image. Keywords: cathedrals, religion, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour Places shown: Gloucester; Gloucestershire; England Added: 2010-05-22 + S K L R N |
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1000x915, 2003x1833, 219x200, 750x686 | Victorian Carol SingersPeter Parley’s Annual (1856) Three Victorian men are stnading singing Christmas songs; one of them plays the harp. A boy watches, and other figures stand in the background. The dress is from the early Victorian era. Jolly be our [...] Keywords: christmas, xmas, music, people, singing, wassail, costumes, victorian england, victorian costumes, victoriana, greyscale Places shown: England Added: 2013-12-12 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1033x1558, 133x200, 581x876, 774x1168 | Byron’s PoolCambridge (1920) Cambridge is no city of spires. She lies belted with woods in the midst of a wide plain. To south, to west, to east stretches a lowland landscape, delicately moulded, rich in pasture and corn-bearing [...] Keywords: colour, water, trees Places shown: Grantchester; Cambridgeshire; England Added: 2006-06-21 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent).Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century (1929) The lord and lady are dining on the daïs, the retainers grouped round the hearth. Notice the dog and the jester. From a model of the Great Hall at Penshurst. Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, New York [...] Keywords: interiors, windows, halls, manors, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England Added: 2005-07-08 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 41.—Constantine Tolman, CornwallOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) I believe this Tolman was destroyed in 1869, although I found no reference to it at the Constantine Village Web site. “There are remains of the more ancient times of Britain whose uses no antiquarian [...] Keywords: animals, sheep, megaliths, ruins, tombs, druids, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Constantine; Cornwall; England Added: 2005-12-04 + S K L R N |
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1065x1132, 1421x1509, 188x200, 478x484, 799x849 | 42.—Wayland Smith’s CaveOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) In the neighbourhood of Lambourn, in Berkshire, are many barrows, and amongst them is found the cromlech called Wayland Smith. The tradition which Scott has so admirably used in his ‘Kenilworth’ that [...] Keywords: people, caves, druids, megaliths, tombs, greyscale Places shown: Wayland’s Smithy Long Barrow; Lambourn; Berkshire; England Added: 2005-12-09 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 44.—hare Stone, CornwallOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “In the parish of Sancred, in Cornwall, is a remarkable stone called the Hare Stone (hare or hoar meaning literally border or boundary), with a heap of stones lying around it (Fig. 44). It is held tha [...] Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Harestone; Stanmore; Cornwall; England Added: 2006-07-07 + 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 | 47.—The Cheesewring, as seen from the North-west.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “But there are some remains which have the appearance of works of art, which are, probably, nothing but irregular products of nature,—masses of stone thrown on a plane surface by some great convulsion [...] Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Bodmin Moor; Cornwall; England Added: 2006-07-28 + S K L R N |
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1089x1478, 147x200, 613x831, 817x1109 | Plan of Donnington Castle.The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) After the [English] civil war was over, Mr. Packer pulled down the ruinous parts of the building, and with the materials erected the house standing under it, now in the occupation of Mark Basket, esq. [...] Keywords: plans, ruins, castles, greyscale Places shown: Donnington; Berkshire; England Added: 2005-12-14 + S K L R N |
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1166x1657, 141x200, 493x700, 656x932, 875x1243 | The Coronation ChairOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The celebrated stone which now forms the seat of the coronation chair of the sovereigns of England is a flat stone, nearly square. It formerly stood in Argyleshire, according to Buchanan; who also say [...] Keywords: colour, chairs, royalty, interiors, cathedrals Places shown: London; England Added: 2012-11-17 + S K L R N |
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