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The CasualsMagazine of Art Illustrated Vol 3 (1878)

The oil painting on which this engraving was based was exhibted under the title, Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward, at the Royal Academy in 1874; it was made to illustrate a scene from Dickens [...]

Keywords: poverty, poor, victorian costumes, bare feet, men, women, people, children, street scenes, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2021-03-15

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The Round ChurchCambridge and its Story (1912)

“At a point where the High Street, now Trinity Street, branches off from Bridge Street stands the church of the Holy Sepulchre, one of the four round churches of England. (The others are: S. Sepulchre [...]

Keywords: churches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2007-01-22

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43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [exterior view]Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

The treatment of the eaves illustrates a very characteristic, though by no means invariable Norman feature, namely, the corbel table, a series of prjecting stones at intervals, carrying a continuous c [...]

Keywords: churches, norman architecture, arches, towers, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Cliffe; Kent; England

Added: 2010-08-10

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43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [interior view]Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

Clerestories.—Those Norman churches which were built with aisles seem all to have had clerestories. I do not know of a Norman nave with original aisles without some indication that there was a cleres [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, religion, buildings, columns, pillars, arches, pews, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Cliffe; Kent; England

Added: 2010-08-10

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Priot Bolton’s Garden-house at CanonburyLondon (Volume II) (1841)

From the house we pass to the lawn, which is terminated by a wall with a raised and embowered terrace, from which we look over on the other side to the kitchen-garden, the New River, and thence onward [...]

Keywords: gardens, greyscale

Places shown: Islington; London; England

Added: 2009-04-27

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Man putting up a posterLondon (Volume V) (1843)

A man us using a pair of brooms on long poles to stick up a poster advertising an auction on a wall already plastered with advertising posters. He wears a top hat but his trousers have holes and patc [...]

Keywords: advertisements, people, posters, hats, victorian costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2019-02-27

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524.—Plan of the Priory of St. Bartholomew.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This twelfth-century priory (founded in 1123) was largely ruined, but the church was restored starting in the 1860s; this plan of the area was published in 1840 and predates any restoration work. Of t [...]

Keywords: plans, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Smithfield; London; England

Added: 2012-08-15

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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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Fort Pitt, ChathamThe Leisure Hour (1904)

The playground of Dickens in his childhood, and the scene of the duel (which never took place!) in Pickwick (By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) “The happiest days of Dickens’s childhood were sp [...]

Keywords: fields, people, fences, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Fort Pitt; Kent; England

Added: 2006-10-08

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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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Gad’s Hill Place, near Rochester (Kent, UK)The Leisure Hour (1904)

Gad’s Hill Place, Near Rochester [Kent]; The home of Charles Dickens from 1857 to 1870. The prinetd photograph also has the captions, (By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) and, Photochrom Co., Lt [...]

Keywords: houses, buildings, trees, creepers, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Gads Hill Place; Higham-by-Rochester; Kent; England

Added: 2014-08-07

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565.—Canterbury Cathedral, South Side.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Look at Canterbury. How many changes of architectural taste are not there visible; how many different periods of are history may not be there traced: yet is the effect anywhere discordant?—Oh, he wer [...]

Keywords: churches, cathedrals, buildings, towers, windows, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2006-08-24

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566,—Cathedral Precinct Gateway.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Entrance to Canterbury Cathedral precinct. “VVe need not subjoin any detailed architectural descriptions. The Cathedral is pleasantly situated in an extensive court, surrounded by gardens, cemetery, t [...]

Keywords: entrances, cathedrals, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-18

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567.—Chapel in Canterbury Cathedral.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“[...] an ancient chair in the chapel of the Holy Trinity, formed also of grey marble, in pieces, which is used for the enthronization of the Archbishops of the See, and which, sayeth tradition, was t [...]

Keywords: chairs, furniture, interiors, cathedrals, churches, arches, windows, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2006-08-26

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568.—Capital and base, S.E. Transept, CanterburyOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A column, or stone pillar, in Canterbury Cathedral.

Keywords: pillars, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2006-10-28

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569.—Staircase in the Conventual Buildings, CanterburyOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Look at Canterbury [Cathedral]. How many changes of architectural taste are not there visible; how many different periods of architectural history may not there be traced: yet is the effect anywhere [...]

Keywords: churches, abbeys, stairs, arches, greyscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2005-10-25

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