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525.—The Crypt, St. Bartholomew’s Church.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A dark stone-vaulted crypt extends as far as we can see; a man walks away from us, holding a burning taper out to light his way and carrying a heavy key. In the foreground a wine-barrel serves to hold [...]

Keywords: crypts, people, drinking, barrels, darkness, interiors, churches, arches, pillars, lamps, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2013-06-04

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Jailer walking into the darkOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A man walks with a lighted taper into the back of the crypt. In the foreground we see empty wine-bottles and a wine-barrel (or beer-barrel). This is a detail taken from a larger picture, The crypt of [...]

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, crypts, darkness, spooky, people, darkness, arches, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2013-06-04

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527.—The Western Entrance, Interior, St. Bartholomew’s church.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There can be no doubt that we have the original walls, pillars, and arches of the twelfth century; the massive, grand, and simple style of the whole tells truly through the date of their erection. (p. [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, norman architecture, people, arches, pillars, windows, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2013-09-24

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528.—Prior Rahere’s Tomb.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An elaborate gothick tomb in St. Bartholomew’s Priory. The tomb of Rahere is also in the choir, but it is of somewhat later date than the priory. Nothing so exquisitely beautiful in sculpture as that [...]

Keywords: tombs, death, gothic architecture, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2013-09-13

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Interior of the Temple Church.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Temple Church was built by (or for) the Knights Templar in London in the 12th Century. Some time after the Knights Templar were destroyed (in 1307) the temple was given by Edward II to the Knights [...]

Keywords: interiors, colour, churches, people, ceilings, columns, arches, pillars, costumes

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2012-08-13

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Dickens at the Blacking WarehouseThe Leisure Hour (1904)

From a drawing by Fred Bernard. Reproduced in “The Dickens Country” by kind permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall Charles Dickens is here shown as a boy of between eight and twelve years of age, work [...]

Keywords: people, misery, dickens, work, labour, sketches, drawings, tiredness, fatigue, boys, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2006-10-08

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30.—Sculpture from the entrance to the chapter house, Westminster Abbey (1250)Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

“Examples abound, but both for beauty and accessibility we can refer to no better example than the carving which enriches the entrance to the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey (Fig. 30).” (p. 68) Car [...]

Keywords: statuary, people, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster Abbey; Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-08-08

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New Post Office, LondonYouth’s Instruction (1830)

“March 1830. The New Post-Office, London. (With an Engraving) The magnificent building recently opened as the new metropolitan Post-Office is situated near the junction of Cheapside and Newgate-stree [...]

Keywords: columns, neoclassical, carriages, horses, people, streets, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2005-08-19

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736.—Sanctuary, Westminster.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

From a sketch by Dr. Stukeley, before its destruction in 1775 One of the most important events recorded in our annals in connection with the privilege of Sanctuary, furnishes us incidentally with a ve [...]

Keywords: buildings, castles, forts, ruins, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2012-09-25

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814.—Henry III From his Tomb in Westminster Abbey.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A portrait of King Henry III, based on the effigy of him on his tomb, which is in Westminster Abbey.

Keywords: portraits, royalty, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2007-10-08

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Heralds’ CollegeLondon (Volume VI) (1841)

The engraving shows the building before it was remodeled in the 1860s. There is nothing worthy of much in the edifice itself, which is composed of brick, and has a rather gloomy appearance. Passing t [...]

Keywords: buildings, exteriors, windows, courtyards, arches, doors, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2025-05-03

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The Tower of LondonEngland (1898)

“London [...] was secured [for William] by the erection of a fortress which afterward grew into the Tower, but William desired to reign not as a conqueror but as a lawful king. At Christmas [A.D. 1066 [...]

Keywords: water, boats, ships, castles, towers, sails, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-03-27

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Lantern-carrierLondon (Volume I) (1841)

A bearded man wearing a broad-brimmed hat and wearing a heavy winter coat walks forward carrying a spear in his left hand and a lit lantern, or lanthorn, in his right. ‘Lanthorn, and a whole candle li [...]

Keywords: people, street scenes, lanterns, weapons, spears, beards, winter, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2012-12-15

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WatchmenLondon (Volume I) (1841)

Two men in long winter cloaks walk the night-time streets of London, each carrying a lantern. One also has a hand-bell and both have spears. The image is credited to “Dekker, 1616.” Stow says that in [...]

Keywords: people, watchmen, lanterns, street scenes, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2012-12-19

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1048.—Hadley Church Tower and BeaconOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“On top of a turret at the South West angle of the tower is an iron cresset, fire pan or pitch-pot, an almost unique survivor of other days. It was erected by the monks to guide wayfarers crossing Enf [...]

Keywords: churches, towers, people, greyscale

Places shown: Hadley; London; England

Added: 2003-07-31

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109. Window from Sir Paul Pindar’s House, Bishopsgate.The Growth of the English House (1909)

Now in the Victoria and Albert Musem [London]. Bishopsgate Street is in London.

Keywords: windows, colour

Places shown: Bishopgate; London; England

Added: 2003-03-30

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Orange Court – Drury LaneLondon (1872)

People sit in the streets in a narrow alley; a barefoot girl carries a child; washing hangs out to dry. On our way to the City on the tide of Labor we light upon places in which the day is never aired [...]

Keywords: poverty, people, street scenes, bare feet, children, greyscale

Places shown: Drury Lane; London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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1150.—The Coronation of Henry IVOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The coronation ceremony shown here, at which Henry IV was crowned and became King Henry IV, took place at Westminster Abbey in October 1399. The engraving (almost certainly on wood) is signed J. Johns [...]

Keywords: religion, royalty, people, events, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-06-21

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1156.—Tomb of Henry IV and his QueenOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

One day whilst he was praying before the shrine of [Edward] the confessor in Westminster Ammey, he was seized with an apoplectic fit. The attendants carried him to the abbot’s apartments, and there l [...]

Keywords: tombs, royalty, statuary, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-02-17

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1275.—Tomb of Sir John Crosby.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A tomb lies in a quiet corner of a church, partly in deep shadow. [...] This is the church of St. Helen’s in Bishopsgate (Fig. 1285), formerly the remains of a priory of Benedictine nuns, whose long r [...]

Keywords: tombs, interiors, churches, spooky, death, statuary, carving, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Bishopsgate; London; England

Added: 2012-09-19

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