Items taken from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) (results page 18)

1422.—Queen Anne Boleyn. (From a Painting by Holbein.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

More about Anne Boleyn.

Keywords: people, portraits, royalty, queens, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-02

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1423.—Hever Castle. (From an Original Sketch) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Anne Bullen [Anne Boleyn] behaved throughout the whole affair with the utmost prudence. Shehad determiend to be the king’s wife, not his mistress; and from that determnation ensued events, the import [...]

Keywords: castles, cattle, sheep, animals, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Hever; Kent; England

Added: 2008-03-03

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1425.—Group of Christening Gifts. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Thus Anne Bullen [Anne Boleyn] was at last Queen of England, and Katherine deposed. At first all things smiled upon the beautiful and light-hearted woman who now presided over the domestic arrangement [...]

Keywords: cups, christmas, new year, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-30

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Wolsey’s Hall at Hampton Court Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In 1514, in the parish of Hampton, Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York began building a magnificent palace on the north bank of the River Thames...Tudor Histor Web page.“The passage to Wolsey’s Hall is [...]

Keywords: interiors, flags, people, windows, colour, manors, castles

Places shown: East Molesey; Surrey; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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1532.—Interior of the Beauchamp Tower Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Beauchamp Tower in the Tower of London; the tower was built in the thirteenth century during the reign of King Edward I. It’s named after Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, who was imprisoned ther [...]

Keywords: castles, interiors, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2005-08-17

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1534.—Hayes Farm, Devonshire Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Birthplace of Sir Walter Raleigh

Hayes Barton farm is in East Budleigh; there’s more information in theBudleigh Diary.

Keywords: manors, houses, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: East Budleigh; Devonshire; England

Added: 2003-11-09

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1672.—Hulme Hall, Lancashire.—Front View. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Hulme Hall, Lancashire (Fig. 1672), may be looked on as a fair specimen of the very numerous timber-houses that form so conspicuous a class in the domestic architecture of Elizabeth’s time. And most [...]

Keywords: buildings, architecture, tudor houses, towers, houses, people, horses, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Newton Heath; Lancashire; England

Added: 2011-01-07

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1674.—Plan of Buckhurst House, Sussex. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A plan of a sixteenth-century mansion, demolished it seems in the eighteenth century. The text does not seem to explain the numbers on the plan; presumably the woodcut was made for some earlier public [...]

Keywords: plans, manors, greyscale

Places shown: Buckhurst; Withyham; Sussex; England

Added: 2011-01-09

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1675.—North side of the Priory Cloisters, Christ’s Hospital. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Christ’s Hospital is a charity-funded boarding school founded in the sixteenth century and still open today. It’s also known as the bluecoat school because of the school uniformMy father (Eric Quin) w [...]

Keywords: buildings, exteriors, acrches, doors, schools, children, boys, people, windows, chimneys, greyscale

Places shown: Horsham; Essex; England

Added: 2018-01-30

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Staircase at Claverton, Somersetshire Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

(From Richardson’s ‘Elizabethan Architecture.’)This ornate portico leads to a hallway with a wide staircase climbing upward; there’s a carved animal, perhaps, on the newel post at the foot of the stai [...]

Keywords: staircases, steps, interiors, elizabethan architecture, entrances, doorways, arches, colums, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Claverton; Somerset; England

Added: 2018-06-06

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Hall at Ockwell’s, Berkshire. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Coloured in the original book.“The old manor-house of Ockwells is situated about one mile westward from bray, in Berkshire. It is one of those mansions built chiefly of timber framework, of which man [...]

Keywords: windows, interiors, colour, paneling, people, animals, furniture

Places shown: Bray; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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1731.—Gray’s Inn Hall. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

oGray’s Inn Hall (Fig. 1731) is superior to that of Lincoln’s Inn or the Inner temple, and little inferior to the Middle Temple Hall. Its chief architectural attractions are its timber roof, carved w [...]

Keywords: interiors, halls, windows, ceilings, rafters, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-08-22

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1732.—Clock at Hampton Court. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The clock does not appear to be mentioned in the book apart from this picture. It was installed at Hampton Court Palace in 1540, but the astronomical (or astrological) parts were lost in the early nin [...]

Keywords: clocks, astrology, machinery, greyscale

Places shown: Hampton Court Palace; Hampton Court; Middlesex; London; England

Added: 2016-04-29

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1733.—The Whirligig Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A cage for punishemt: the offender was put inside and then the cage was spun round rapidly, often for a long time (perhaps all day). This would make the victim sick or even unconscious. In the mean- [...]

Keywords: punishments, torture, cages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-08-13

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1734.—Man and Woman in Stocks. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“A stockes to staye sure and safely detayneLazy, lewd leu[?]terers that lawes do offend.”(Harman’s ‘Caveat,’ &c.)“The stocks are still, we believe, occasionally used [1845], though the sooner they too [...]

Keywords: punishments, people, bare feet, beer, stocks, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-01-18

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1735.—The Brank Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Scolds had their heads inclosed [sic] in a sugarloaf-shapred cap, made of iron hooping, with a cross at the top, and a flat piece of iron projecting inwards, that was laid upon the tongue; a string w [...]

Keywords: punishments, torture, cages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-08-13

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1736.—Genings and Blunt Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Nicholas Blunt was aCounterfeit Crank; that is, he pretended to be a sick person who went by the name of Nicholas Genings. The man pictured here (in and out of disguise) was caught, and “whip’t at a [...]

Keywords: people, criminals, disguises, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-27

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1737.—Portraits of Poets At the time of Shakespeare Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A montage of eight portraits of famous sixteenth-century men who were poets. The portraits have individual oval frames and sometimes oxtangonal inner frames, and there are vines and perhaps acanthus l [...]

Keywords: people, poets, portraits, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-06-26

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1787.—Hunting. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Men hunting deer with dogs and horses. In the background a church steeple, reminding us that this is supposed to be a typical country scene.

Keywords: hunting, sports, animals, churches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-26

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1788.—Hawking. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“There was one sport exclusively confined to the noble and wealthy orders of society—hawking—which chiefly flourished and declined during the present period [the first half of the 17th century]. To a [...]

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-04-28

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