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Westminster Hall London (Volume VI) (1841)

“Interior of Westminster Hall, as seen during the Trial of Lambert, before Henry VIII.” (p. 144)

Keywords: interiors, royalty, halls, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-06-15

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On the Serpentine The Circling Year (1870)

A night-time Winter scene in Victorian London: it’s the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park, and it’s frozen over with ice. People are skatin, carrying burning torches to light their way; in the foreground a [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, ice, winter, holidays, skating, bridges, crowds, torchlight, roast chestnuts, people, trees, lakes, rivers, colour

Places shown: Hyde Park; London; England

Added: 2018-06-09

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XV.—Scala Regia, House of Lords. Monumental Architecture (1910)

Monumental Architecture. XV.—Scala Regia, House of Lords. Sir John Soane, Architect.The Scala Regia is the ante-room and gallery (corridor) at the House of Lords in Westminster; Sir John Soane design [...]

Keywords: interiors, ceilings, windows, entrances, stairs, steps, neoclassical, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2005-08-17

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The Tower of London Turrets Towers and Temples (1899)

The main keep (the White Tower) was probably build around 1070, so it’ll be having its thousandth birthday soon.

Keywords: castles, towers, colour

Places shown: London; Middlesex; England

Added: 2004-03-20

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1532.—Interior of the Beauchamp Tower Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Beauchamp Tower in the Tower of London; the tower was built in the thirteenth century during the reign of King Edward I. It’s named after Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, who was imprisoned ther [...]

Keywords: castles, interiors, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2005-08-17

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1731.—Gray’s Inn Hall. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

oGray’s Inn Hall (Fig. 1731) is superior to that of Lincoln’s Inn or the Inner temple, and little inferior to the Middle Temple Hall. Its chief architectural attractions are its timber roof, carved w [...]

Keywords: interiors, halls, windows, ceilings, rafters, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-08-22

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1732.—Clock at Hampton Court. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The clock does not appear to be mentioned in the book apart from this picture. It was installed at Hampton Court Palace in 1540, but the astronomical (or astrological) parts were lost in the early nin [...]

Keywords: clocks, astrology, machinery, greyscale

Places shown: Hampton Court Palace; Hampton Court; Middlesex; London; England

Added: 2016-04-29

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Dudley Street – Seven Dials London (1872)

Children play in this crowded street; they are dressed in rags and mostly barefoot.The peculiar character of these streets, and the close resemblance each one bears to its neighbour, by no means tends [...]

Keywords: poverty, people, streets, children, bare feet, houses, misery, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2010-07-31

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1805.—Arthur’s Show. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The engraving shows the interior of a large tent or pavillion, with a banner readingSocitie of Prince Arthurhanging from the ceiling, festooned with a garland. There is a round table and, in the front [...]

Keywords: archery, weapons, events, soldiers, contests, gaming, gluttony, monks, people, costumes, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Mile End; London; England

Added: 2012-12-05

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The Tower of London The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

A woodcut showing a diagram of the Tower of London and its surringings. There are boats and conttages, battlements and towers, with the keep in the middle of it all.The letters annotating various par [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, battlements, towers, boats, ships, moats, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2009-02-11

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The Tower Of London Castle Diagram (wallpaper version) The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

A version ofThe Tower of London woodcutwith the borders and letters removed (and stretched vertically by about 5%) to make a cool wallpaper.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, castles, towers, battlements, boats, water, moats, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2009-02-11

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2029.—A Parallel of some of the principal Towers and Steeples built by Sir Christopher Wren Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

1, St. Dunstan in the East. 2, St. Magnus. 3, St. Benet, Gracechurch-street. 4, St. Edmund the King, Lombard-street. 5, St. Margaret Pattens. 6, Allhallows the Great. 7, St. Mary Abchurch. 8, St Much [...]

Keywords: towers, churches, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2004-05-17

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2055.—Fair Lemons and Oranges. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A woman with apron tied at her waist carries two baskets, one under her arm and one balanced on her head and resting on top of her broad-brimmed hat; the baskets are filled with fruit. She is a fruit- [...]

Keywords: people, street vendors, beggars, women, baskets, fruit, selling, aprons, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2014-02-17

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2056.—Old Shoes for some Brooms! Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A man is standing with half a dozen straw brooms on his back, tied to a stick he holds in his left hand. He wears a broad-brimmed hat and simple shoes; his coat is in holes, as is his shirt or tunic u [...]

Keywords: street sellers, people, poverty, underworld, men, brooms, barter, london, sixteenth-century costumes, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2019-03-23

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2086.—Plan of St. Giles in the Fields. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This plan of the village of St. Giles-in-the-Fields was made in or before 1840, by which time it was already becoming subsumed into London.1. The first St. Giles’s Church.2. Remains of the Walls ancie [...]

Keywords: maps, plans, churches, greyscale

Places shown: St. Giles in the Fields; London; England

Added: 2016-01-26

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2087.—Westminster About 1600. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The city of Westminster, some four hundred years ago, had the churces and cathedrals of today, but was perhaps somewhat less built-up! Here we are looking across the River Thames at houses, the old pa [...]

Keywords: views, cities, rivers, water, churches, cathedrals, boats, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2016-01-31

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2088.—The Custom-House, London, as it appeared before the Great Fire. (From a Print by Hollar.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In all this increase of wealth and comfort, London of course took the lion’s share; the days had long passed away when as a port it ranked but a little higher in reputation than the ports of Boston, L [...]

Keywords: views, water, buildings, boats, greyscale

Places shown: Customs House; London; England

Added: 2016-10-04

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2175.—Chancel of St. Giles, Cripplegate. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This is a picture of the inside of the church now called St. Giles-without-Cripplegate (‘without’ being an old word meaning ‘outside’ or ‘beyond’). The modern church was largely rebuilt after being ba [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, pulpits, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2016-01-23

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London Bridge in 1694 London (1872)

The old London Bridge shown in this wonderfully emotive engraving was lined with houses all along, a remarkably unsafe construction that did not survive.The bridge [...] survives in its picturesque ma [...]

Keywords: cityscapes, bridges, water, houses, people, boats, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2011-09-11

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Lemonade Vendor London (1872)

A man with long straggly hair wearing a top hat and an old coat is selling lemonade from a bucket with wooden cups tied to it.“The reader will perceive, in the scenes which have caught the attention o [...]

Keywords: people, poverty, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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