Items taken from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) (results page 19)

1789.—The Grand Falconer Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Grand Falconer is an hereditary position that dates from medieval times, and belongs to the Duke of St. Albans. The man shown here wears a Middle-Eastern-style head-dress with a diadem and carries [...]

Keywords: people, falconry, swords, dogs, animals, castles, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-08

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1790.—Shooting. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A hunting party, with men shooting at birds and perhaps animals using crossbows and rifles, and with hunting dogs to retrieve the things they killed. I somehow doubt that these are people who need to [...]

Keywords: people, sports, hunting, weapons, animals, dogs, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-01-14

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1800.—Tric-trac, by Teniers. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Four men are playing at dice, a game calledtric-trac. A discarded clay pipe on the floor, together with a wine-jug and an open tankard, hint at moral excesses. The men wear seventeenth-century costume [...]

Keywords: art, paintings, people, games, dice, beards, gaming, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-12-02

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1801.—A Knotted Garden. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Let us now follow [William Shakespeare] into his retirement (about 1604) at the place so associated with all his early hopes and struggles, and joys and sorrows—Stratford—the place that was evidently, [...]

Keywords: shakespeare, gardens, houses, backgrounds, wallpaper, houses, greyscale

Places shown: Stratford; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2011-05-27

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1802.—Bowling Green. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A depiction of lawn bowling in the sixteenth century; the people are richly dressed, and one has laid down a sword and plumed hat on the ground. The surroundings include a tall fountain and hedges wit [...]

Keywords: games, bowling, people, hedges, costumes, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-12

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1805.—Arthur’s Show. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The engraving shows the interior of a large tent or pavillion, with a banner readingSocitie of Prince Arthurhanging from the ceiling, festooned with a garland. There is a round table and, in the front [...]

Keywords: archery, weapons, events, soldiers, contests, gaming, gluttony, monks, people, costumes, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Mile End; London; England

Added: 2012-12-05

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1951.—Battle at Worcester Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

At top – View of Worcester. (From an old [as of 1845] Print.) The battle was fought on the foreground meadows. In the centre, the flight of [King] Charles before the Parliamentary Soldiers; designed [...]

Keywords: battles, horses, weapons, churches, towers, houses, towns, horses, greyscale

Places shown: Worcester; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2004-04-14

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2029.—A Parallel of some of the principal Towers and Steeples built by Sir Christopher Wren Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

1, St. Dunstan in the East. 2, St. Magnus. 3, St. Benet, Gracechurch-street. 4, St. Edmund the King, Lombard-street. 5, St. Margaret Pattens. 6, Allhallows the Great. 7, St. Mary Abchurch. 8, St Much [...]

Keywords: towers, churches, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2004-05-17

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2041.—Lady Mayoress of London Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

(Hollar’s Theatrum Mulierum.)

Keywords: people, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-04-05

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2042.—Country Woman with Mufflers Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

(Speed’s Map of England)

Keywords: people, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-04-05

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2043.—Musketeer, 1603 Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

(From a Specimen at Goodrich Court; engraved in Skelton’s Armour.)

Keywords: armour, weapons, people, costumes, soldiers, swords, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-04-05

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2045.—Infantry Armour, 1625 (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court; engraved in Skelton’s Armour) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Armour, on the decline at the close of the last period, continued to be used through the [English] Civil Wars, though it did not exactly justify James I’s characteristic praise—that it not only saved [...]

Keywords: soldiers, armour, weapons, swords, shields, people, helmets, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-03-18

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2046.—Pikeman, 1635. (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A soldier from the English Civil war.“The trained bands were the ridicule of the Cavaliers, as being composed of apprentices, artisans, and shopkeepers of London; they were called the “thimble and bod [...]

Keywords: soldiers, armour, weapons, swords, people, helmets, beards, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-12

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2047.—Soldier of Trained Band, 1633 Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“One of our military [wood-]cuts represents a soldier of the Trained Bands, 1638 (Fig. 2047).” (p. 211)

See Fig. 2046 for more detail.

Keywords: soldiers, armour, weapons, guns, hats, beards, weapons, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-12

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2048.—Cuirassier, 1645 (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

See Fig. 2045.

Keywords: soldiers, people, armour, knights, swords, helmets, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-03-18

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2049.—Oliverian or Puritan (Jeffrey’s Dresses) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

See Fig. 2045.

The Puritan is shown carrying a book, presumably the Bible, as his weapon.

Keywords: people, soldiers, religion, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-03-18

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2050.—Helmets, 1645. (From Specimens at Goodrich Court.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Helmets worn by soldiers in the English Civil War. See Fig. 2045 for details.

Keywords: armour, weapons, helmets, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-02-28

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2055.—Fair Lemons and Oranges. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A woman with apron tied at her waist carries two baskets, one under her arm and one balanced on her head and resting on top of her broad-brimmed hat; the baskets are filled with fruit. She is a fruit- [...]

Keywords: people, street vendors, beggars, women, baskets, fruit, selling, aprons, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2014-02-17

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2056.—Pots to Mend. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A man walks while wearing old-fashioned clothing has a large pan or bucket over one shoulder, a saucepan in one hand and a hammer in the other. He wears a wide-brimmed hat, an apron, a ragged apron an [...]

Keywords: pepole, street vendors, beggars, men, saucepans, tinkers, selling, aprons, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-02-18

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2056.—Old Shoes for some Brooms! Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A man is standing with half a dozen straw brooms on his back, tied to a stick he holds in his left hand. He wears a broad-brimmed hat and simple shoes; his coat is in holes, as is his shirt or tunic u [...]

Keywords: street sellers, people, poverty, underworld, men, brooms, barter, london, sixteenth-century costumes, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2019-03-23

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