Items in or near Kent (results page 4)

Guildford Castle, Surrey Old English Country Cottages (1906)

the entrance to Guildford castle, SurreyOne of the features of the Surrey cottage, indeed of all those counties where tile was the principal roofing material, is the skill with which the tiling is ada [...]

Keywords: castles, street scenes, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Guildford; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-19

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Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges (1891)

A printing office, with an engraver (I think) at left, a proof-reader, a typesetter (at the back) next to the person operating the press itself, and, at right, a boy wearing tights and I think barefoo [...]

Keywords: typography, printing, children, pictures of books, books, people, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-01-21

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381.—St. Mary’s Chapel, Hastings Cliff Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Hastings Castle was built by William the Conqueror in 1070 or so, together with the chapel of St. Mary. Coastal erosion, and, later, French attacks, meant there wasn’t much left by 1400. After the Di [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, arches, churches, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Hastings; Kent; England

Added: 2011-06-17

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Plate 3.—Rochester Castle.—Interior. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Two men stand on a ruined wall and peer into the Keep; the men are brightly dressed. The castle here today was built inA.D. 1080and the keep is also called Gundolph’s Tower after its builder.English H [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, colour, people

Places shown: Rochester; Kent; England

Added: 2012-05-22

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IV.—West Front of Buckingham Palace. Monumental Architecture (1910)

The lack of a flag probably means the King (at the time) was not at home. Thewing on the left today is the Queen’s private disco and mosh pit.

Keywords: palaces, architecture, photographs, buildings, columns, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-06-09

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The Casuals Magazine of Art Illustrated (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: London London; England

Added: 2021-03-15

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

The Temple Church was built by (orfor) 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: London London; England

Added: 2012-08-13

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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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The Lion Gates, Hampton Court The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

Hampton Court Palace was built by Cardinal Wolsey, starting in 1514, although some time in the 1520s it became the property of King Henry VIII.The Lion Gates are at the Bushey Park entrance to the Pal [...]

Keywords: gates, entrances, statues, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: East Molesey; Surrey; England

Added: 2006-01-19

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Priot Bolton’s Garden-house at Canonbury London (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 poster London (Volume V) (1843)

A man us using a pair of brooms on long poles to stuck 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 th [...]

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: London London; England

Added: 2013-06-04

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Jailer walking into the dark Old 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 Sa [...]

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

Places shown: London London; 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: London London; 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: London London; England

Added: 2013-09-13

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Hastings: The Castle. Round The Coast (1895)

From a Photo. by Poulton & Son.“HASTINGS.—Hastings Castle stands on the brink of the cliff, and presents the most striking view to be found in Sussex. Its principal entrance was necessarily on the lan [...]

Keywords: ruins, castles, arches, beaches, views, water, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Hastings; Sussex; England

Added: 2006-12-20

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Fort Pitt, Chatham The Leisure Hour (1904)

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

Keywords: fields, people, fences, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Fort Pitt; Kent; England

Added: 2006-10-08

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Dickens at the Blacking Warehouse The Leisure Hour (1904)

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

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

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2006-10-08

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