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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | St. George’s Chapel, WindsorThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) The round tower is one of the famous London landmarks, another part of Windsor Castle. The image caption also said, Publish’d the 9th of June 1784 by S. Hooper. T Bonnor scup dirext. [i.e. engraved]; [...] Keywords: castles, chapels, streets, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Windsor; Berkshire; England Added: 2006-05-30 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1114x730, 1485x973, 1808x1212, 305x200, 835x547, 904x606 | View of OxfordOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896) We see the ancient city in the distance between trees in the foreground. From an Etching by H. Toussaint. Engraved by Davison. Keywords: views, cities, trees, towers, cityscapes, greyscale Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England Added: 2005-08-12 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x960, 1400x1050, 1600x1200, 267x200, 320x240, 640x480, 800x600 | The shore was covered with men ready for battleAn Island Story (1920) Men wearing tarrered rags or perhaps animal skins, and carrying spears and shields, watch from atop white cliffs as Roman galleys near the shore. The time depicted is about the first century C.E., or [...] Keywords: people, soldiers, bare feet, ships, water, backgrounds, wallpaper, illustrations for children, colour Places shown: England Added: 2009-05-06 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1023x1310, 1364x1746, 156x200, 1819x2328, 575x736, 768x983 | II.—Brasenose College Quadrangle and St. Mary’s SpireThe Charm of Oxford (1920) “Nowhere, except at Cambridge, can the series of architectural works be paralleles, and at both universities, the charm of their ancient buildings is enhanced by their beautiful setting in college gar [...] Keywords: sketches, colleges, greyscale Places shown: Brasenose College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England Added: 2007-01-14 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Reading Abbey (Background 1)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) Version of the Reading Abbey engraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper). Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England Added: 2004-10-09 + 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 | Reading Abbey (Coloured version)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) Version of the Reading Abbey engraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and then coloured (by Liam Quin). Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour, backgrounds, wallpaper Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England Added: 2004-10-09 + S K L R N |
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1036x752, 1382x1003, 1842x1337, 275x200, 777x564 | Reading Abbey, Plate 1The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) Publish’d the 24th of May 1784 by S. Hooper. The abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I of England, who was buried here. The abbey was closed at the Reformation, and used as a private home for a ti [...] Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England Added: 2004-10-09 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 1902x1413, 267x200, 800x600 | 76.—The Herefordshire Beacon.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) There are disagreements about whether the Herefordshire Beacon is the remains of an iron-age hill fort or perhaps is an unfinished Norman motte-and-bailey castle of the 11th century; an excavation in [...] Keywords: celts, earthworks, castles, hills, views, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Colwall; Malvern; Herefordshire; England Added: 2007-07-24 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x960, 1400x1050, 1440x1080, 1600x1200, 267x200, 320x240, 640x480, 800x600 | Houses of Parliament from the River, temp Charles II.London (Volume II) (1841) The Houses of Parliament in Westminster, in the time of King Charles II, so between (roughly) 1650 and 1685; this is of course long before th 19th century changes, and before Big Ben was built. Keywords: government, buildings, royalty, water, towers, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: London; England Added: 2009-04-21 + S K L R N |
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1293x945, 1724x1260, 274x200, 726x530, 970x709 | 87.—Country near Dover.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantr [...] Keywords: views, hills, sheep, greyscale Places shown: Dover; Kent; England Added: 2008-09-15 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 88.—Dover Cliffs.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The white cliffs of dover, complete with fishing boats. The plate is signed “SIBLY” but that could be the original artist or the engraver (or both). “In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B [...] Keywords: cliffs, water, boats, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Dover; Kent; England Added: 2008-09-17 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480 | 89. Roman Lighthouse, Church and Trenches in Dover Castle.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) In that curious record, in old French, of the foundation of the Castle of Dover, which we find in Dugdale’s ‘Monasticon,’ we are told that when Arviragus reigned in Britain, he refused to be subject t [...] Keywords: lighthouses, castles, ruins, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Dover; Kent; England Added: 2010-09-08 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1180x785, 1573x1046, 300x200, 885x589 | Wilton HousePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870) It was hard to do justice to the delicate colours of this 8-colour printed plate of Wilton House in Wiltshire. WILTON HOUSE, WILTON, WILTSHIRE.—EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY. Wilton House is an impo [...] Keywords: manors, houses, buildings, trees, water, colour Places shown: Wilton; Wiltshire; England Added: 2007-02-10 + S K L R N |
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