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Reading Abbey (Coloured version)
The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)
Version of theReading Abbeyengraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and then coloured (by Liam Quin).
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ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour, backgrounds, wallpaper
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Reading; Berkshire; England
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Reading Abbey, Plate 1
The 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 time [...]
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ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour
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Reading; Berkshire; England
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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.
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government, buildings, royalty, water, towers, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
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London; England
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113.—The Thames at Coway Stakes.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
Tall trees sway either side of a dirt road down which a cart is pulled way from us by a pair of heavy horses; two women and a dog approach us on the same road. In the background a barge is pulled alon [...]
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views, rivers, water, carts, trees, roads, people, boats, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
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Coway Stakes; Weybridge; Surrey; England
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Brewer’s Vat.
London (Volume IV) (1841)
A giant beer-barrel at a brewery in London in the 1840s.“The wonderful magnitude of the great London breweries is a familiar source of wonderment. The stacks of casks that might reach, placed side by [...]
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beer, barrels, people, greyscale
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London; England
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210.—Edward the Confessor’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey,—now used as the Pix office.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
“Under its original name of the Isle of Bramble or thorn-ea, Westminster was a place of importance before London existed.[...]“The Saxon king Sebert (597 – 616) built a monastery on the site now occup [...]
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abbeys, churches, castles, anglosaxon remains, greyscale
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Westminster; London; England
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Great Tangley Manor, Surrey.
Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)
A half-timbered Elizabethan manor-house with tiled roof is here seen from the garden. Notice the cat sitting in the porch!The moated Manor House of Great Tangley, in West Surrey (facing page 24), thou [...]
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manors, colour, gardens, trees, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds
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Wonersh; Surrey; England
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[p.210] The Tower of London
London (Volume II) (1841)
A birds-eye view: a map or plan of the castle.From a Print published by the Royal Antiquarian Society, and engraved from the Survey made in 1597, by W. Haiward and J. Gascoigne, by order of Sir J. Pey [...]
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castles, maps, plans, diagrams, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
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London
London; England
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View of St. Paul’s Cathedral from the Thames
Alt-England (1888)
This is an unusual view of Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece, which replaced an earlier cathedral founded in A.D. 64 after it burned down in the Great Fire of London.We see a man leaning out of a sto [...]
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cathedrals, circles, windows, sailing boats, ships, boats, churches, domes, london, rivers, river thames, greyscale
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London
London; England
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Haslemere, Surrey
Old English Country Cottages (1906)
A young woman stands at the gate to an English cottage garden. She holds a child in her arms, and she wears a long dress and a somewhat soiled apron. The gate is set in a thick hedge, but we can see s [...]
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cottages, people, flowers, colour
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Haslemere; Surrey; England
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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 [...]
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castles, street scenes, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
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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 [...]
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typography, printing, children, pictures of books, books, people, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
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Westminster; London; England
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![[p.210] The Tower of London](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/vol2-p210-The-Tower-of-London/vol2-p210-The-Tower-of-London-q75-267x200.jpg "[p.210] The Tower of London 1841")
