Items taken from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) (results page 17)

1311.—Luton Church Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The parish church of St. Mary is an ancient and interesting edifice (Harmsworth’s Encyc.)

I didn’t clean this scan up as well as I’d have liked; as always, let me know if you want the original.

Keywords: churches, people, trees, gravestones, greyscale

Places shown: Luton; Bedfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-05

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1313.—Font in East Dereham Church, Norfolk Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas, and dates from the Norman period (11th or early 12th Century). The Seven Sacrament Font shown here was made in 1488. The eighth side of the font shows the cru [...]

Keywords: fonts, churches, sculpture, greyscale

Places shown: East Dereham; Norfolk; England

Added: 2004-06-13

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1314.—Northleach church, Gloucestershire Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Like many English churches, that at Northleach has been modified over the years. Although part of the aisle dates from the 12th century, most of the church is from the 14th and 15th centuries.[the ch [...]

Keywords: churches, windows, towers, gravestones, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Northleach; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2005-07-30

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1315.—Weston Church. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An English village church, with an unusually short tower. Probably the building shown here dates from the fourteenth and fifteenth cenuries; it was extensively restored in the 1890s, some fifty or mor [...]

Keywords: churches, graveyards, people, religion, funerals, death, sadness, children, greyscale

Places shown: Weston; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2010-08-23

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1372.—Caxton. With Paper Marks. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The famous mercer, William Caxton (Fig. 1372), came back to England with those few,and simple, and rude implements which had cost him so much wealth, labour, time, and anxiety to obtain; and then, fr [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-11

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1373.—Wood-cut of a Knight. (From Caxton’s ‘Game of the Chess’) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A fifteenth-century woodcut of a knight riding a horse; he bears the Fleurs-de-Lys, the French badge. This is from an early printed book, made for a book printed at Westminster Abbey byWilliam Caxton. [...]

Keywords: knights, people, weapons, horses, fleurs de lys, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-19

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1375.—Shooting at Butts Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A “butt” is an old name for a target used for longbow archery practice; the place where people practice to fire arrows is called an archery butts. The targets were usually placed on mounds of earth.I [...]

Keywords: archery, weapons, knights, people, carts, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-11

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1376.—St. Albans Hawking Party Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Falconry in the 15th century, with St. Albans Abbey in the background.

The image is signed S. Johnson, which could be the name of the artist who drew the picture or of the engraver or both.

Keywords: hunting, sports, people, birds, trees, abbeys, falconry, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-04-30

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1377.—Whitsun Morris-Dance. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Whitsunday, or Whitsun, is the seventh Sunday after Easter, and is a time for a holiday. TheMorris-dancewas originally a Moorish dance. These days it involves men with white socks (always a bad start [...]

Keywords: dancing, people, holidays, morris dancers dancing, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-01

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Stratford Church. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Interior, seen from the door.The plate is coloured in the original book.The parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon is a large and handsome structure, of the usual cross-form, with a central tower surmou [...]

Keywords: doors, entrances, arches, interiors, colour

Places shown: Stratford; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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1378.—Bowling Ball. (From a MS. in the Douce Collection.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

[After the end of the Wars of the Roses, in the fifteenth century] the green sward that had been trampled by unaccustomed feet is re-levelled for the bowls (Fig. 1378) (p. 384)Here, the game appears t [...]

Keywords: games, people, bowling, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-10

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Two-wheeled plough. (From Harleian MS. No. 4374) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The two-wheeled plough here is pulled by a pair of oxen and has one man behind.Harleian MS. 4374isLes Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, by Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin [...]

Keywords: ploughs, farming, agriculture, farming, farm machinery, people, poverty, work, rural, oxen, spring, wheels, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-26

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1381.—Trap-Ball. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This game may be similar to Ball-and-Trap or Knurr and Spell, two traditional English ball-games that are still played. If so, the ball is on a see-saw an the play will hit the other end of it to mak [...]

Keywords: sports, games, people, balls, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-08-12

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1384.—Golf, or Bandy-ball. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

(From a M.S. in the Douce Collection.)

Two men play an ancient form of golf, called bandy-ball. The game was fashionable in the beginning of the 17th C. amongst the English gentry.

Keywords: games, people, sports, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-14

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1385.—The Dance in the ‘Garden of Pleasure:’ from the ‘Roman de la Rose.’—(Harl. MS. 4425.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Story of the Rose was a very popular mediæval French story about chivalry and knightly love. Here we have an engraving based on a painting in one particular manuscript copy made in aboutA.D.1500. [...]

Keywords: romance, people, costumes, castles, music, musical instruments, mythological figures, art, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-07-17

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1387.—Leaping through a Hoop. (Ancient MS. engraved in Strutt’s Sports) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A boy, barefoot, stands with arms outstretched; perhaps he has been running. He is about to jump or leap through a ring or hoop held by his two smiling play-mates....and if the boys leap through their [...]

Keywords: games, sports, children, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-08-11

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1389.—Ancient Dice Box. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The government of Edward IV.—a thing of force—grows alarmed at the idea of any decrease of the materials of force, and so the popular sports are condemned, and the instruments used in them are to be d [...]

Keywords: dice, games, diagrams, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-14

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1390.—Shuttle-Cock (From a MS. in the Douce Collection.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Two boys or men are seen playing shuttlecock with wide bats. Is this an early form of badminton?

Keywords: sports, games, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-10-10

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Methley Hall Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Methley Hall, or Methley Park, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, seven miles south-east from Leeds, is the seat of the Saviles, Earls Mexborough, which family have held the manor for several centuries [...]

Keywords: interiors, windows, ceilings, arches, stairs, colour, furniture, manors, halls

Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2005-08-24

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Methley Hall, Wallpaper Version Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A version of theMethley Hallcoloured engraving; this version has been cropped slightly so that it’s the right size for a computer desktop background, or wallpaper.No, I don’t know why some people put [...]

Keywords: backgrounds, manors, colour, interiors, windows, ceilings, arches, stairs, furniture, wallpaper

Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2005-08-24

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