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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 140x200, 1837x2632, 523x750, 919x1316 | VII.—Merton College: The Library InteriorThe Charm of Oxford (1920) Merton is the oldest college in Oxford, founded in the 1270s, almost 750 years ago. This sketch gives us a glimpse inside the ancient library with its rows of books so inviting. Merton, as has been s [...] Keywords: interiors, libraries, arches, ceilings, colleges, pictures of books, books, greyscale Places shown: Merton College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England Added: 2013-06-30 + S K L R N |
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1038x1489, 140x200, 584x838, 779x1117 | Chantry Chapel, WarwickOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) This beautiful engraving, printed in colour using multiple plates, shows the stone ceiling, a tiled floor, an arched entrance-way, a stained-glass window, a church-warden’s chest, a seat and a reading [...] Keywords: colour, chapels, interiors, churches, castles, windows, furniture Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England Added: 2010-10-30 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1039x1435, 145x200, 584x807, 779x1076 | Donnington CastleCastles (1926) The Gate HouseThe gatehouse dates from 1386, when King Richard II granted Richard Abberbury the Elder the right to fortify ("crenellate") his manor. There is also a plan of Donnington; use the Locatio [...] Keywords: towers, castles, ruins, trees, greyscale Places shown: Donnington; Berkshire; England Added: 2004-06-30 + S K L R N |
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| 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 389.—Ruins of reading Abbey in 1721.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Reading Abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I; it became very wealthy, no doubt in part because of the corruption that was endemic to the Roman Catholic Church. At the Dissolution of the Monasteri [...] Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches, people, animals, wallpaper, backgrounds, anglosaxon remains, greyscale Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England Added: 2005-05-22 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 397.—Oxford CastleOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Oxford Castle, as it appeared in the Fifteenth Century. Keywords: castles, towers, people, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England Added: 2004-03-04 + S K L R N |
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1141x938, 2281x1875, 243x200, 750x617 | 415.—Entrance to Warwick Castle.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) [Piers] Gaveston endeavoured to defend himself in Scarborough Castle (of which the crumbling ruins now only remain, Fig. 919), while the king went to York to seek an army for his relief. But before a [...] Keywords: towers, entrances, castles, battlements, arches, trees, moats, people, greyscale Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England Added: 2022-01-29 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 416.—Warwick Castle, Guy’s TowerOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “It is a rare consolation for the lover of his country’s monuments, to turn from castles made into prisons, and abbeys into stables, to such a glorious relic of ‘Old England’ as Warwick Castle. Who c [...] Keywords: castles, towers, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England Added: 2003-03-07 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1207x800, 1584x1050, 302x200, 679x450, 905x600 | Warwick Castle.—Earl of WarwickPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870) A splendid view of Warwick Castle, printed in colour. The text reads as follows: WARWICK CASTLE, NEAR WARWICK, WARWICKSHIRE.—EARL OF WARWICK. Cymbeline, King of Britain, is by some supposed to have bu [...] Keywords: castles, buildings, water, trees, colour, boats, people, colour Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England Added: 2007-02-08 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 100x63, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, 2560x1600, 319x200, 700x438, 960x600 | Stone Henge in Wiltshire, wide-screen versionThe Antiquities of England and Wales (1786) A version of Stone Henge in Wiltshire [1780] cropped and resized for use on an HDTV or a wide-screen computer monitor. There is also a 4:3 version, e.g. 1600x1200 or 1024x768. Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, monuments, ruins, people, spooky, greyscale Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England Added: 2008-08-27 + S K L R N |
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1036x804, 1382x1072, 1727x1340, 2303x1786, 258x200, 800x620 | 49.—Stone Henge, in Wiltshire.The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786) Stonehenge in a woodcut from 1786. I would not assume that the drawing is very accurate. In the foreground is a group of people on the ground, to give a sense of scale. Stone Henge, in Wiltshire. Pu [...] Keywords: ruins, temples, megaliths, druids, stone circles, greyscale Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England Added: 2008-08-27 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Stone Henge in Wiltshire, wallpaper versionThe Antiquities of England and Wales (1786) A version of Stone Henge in Wiltshire [1780] with the publisher’s name removed from the bottom, making it the right shape for many computer screens. There is also a widescreen stonehenge wallpaper ver [...] Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, ruins, temples, megaliths, druids, stone circles, spooky, greyscale Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England Added: 2008-08-27 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1307x1952, 134x200, 491x732, 654x976 | West Gate, WarwickWarwick and Leamington (1920) A shepherd herds his sheep up Warwick’s main street, past mediaeval house. Keywords: towns, colour, churches, mediaeval, people, animals Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England Added: 2003-11-09 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1192x793, 1440x900, 1590x1057, 1680x1050, 301x200, 670x446, 894x595 | Guy’s Cliffe.Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870) A strikingly beautiful manor house, with the moat in the foreground; today it lies in ruins. There are several other pictures of the same site; see the Location link. I have included a 1680x1050 pix [...] Keywords: manors, stately homes, exteriors, parks, buildings, colour, water, trees, colour Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England Added: 2007-06-16 + S K L R N |
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