Items taken from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) (results page 20)

2085.—[Samuel] Butler’s House, Pershore Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The picture shows the house where Samuel Butler (1613 – 1680), the English poet, was born. It is a farmhouse like many others from the period in England, with a thatched roof and brick chimneys. it ha [...]

Keywords: houses, farmhouses, samuel butler, hudibras, exteriors, buildings, cottages, poets, people, greyscale

Places shown: Strensham; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2018-01-25

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2086.—Plan of St. Giles in the Fields. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This plan of the village of St. Giles-in-the-Fields was made in or before 1840, by which time it was already becoming subsumed into London.1. The first St. Giles’s Church.2. Remains of the Walls ancie [...]

Keywords: maps, plans, churches, greyscale

Places shown: St. Giles in the Fields; London; England

Added: 2016-01-26

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2087.—Westminster About 1600. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The city of Westminster, some four hundred years ago, had the churces and cathedrals of today, but was perhaps somewhat less built-up! Here we are looking across the River Thames at houses, the old pa [...]

Keywords: views, cities, rivers, water, churches, cathedrals, boats, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2016-01-31

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2088.—The Custom-House, London, as it appeared before the Great Fire. (From a Print by Hollar.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In all this increase of wealth and comfort, London of course took the lion’s share; the days had long passed away when as a port it ranked but a little higher in reputation than the ports of Boston, L [...]

Keywords: views, water, buildings, boats, greyscale

Places shown: Customs House; London; England

Added: 2016-10-04

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2089.—Barbican. (Designed from old maps and Elevations, temp. James and Charles I.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An old-world street in London, with half-timbered houses overhanging narrow streets and alleys.Old London Bridge (Fig. 2090) has been already described; it will be sufficient to say of Barbican (Fig. [...]

Keywords: streets, street scenes, houses, buildings, roads, dogs, old england, tudor houses, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-11-14

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2103.—Herstmonceaux Castle. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There’s amodern photographand also aMedieval Festivalheld each year. The castle is of brick and dates from 1415. The modern spelling is Herstmonceux, near Hailsham, East Sussex.

Keywords: castles, towers, bridges, entrances, creeper, people, animals, dogs, colour

Places shown: Herstmonceaux; East Sussex; England

Added: 1999-11-01

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2105.—East Basham, Norfolk Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Near Walsingham. “It is a curious and instructive contrast to compare with Herstmonceaux – a true Castle, but in which the domestic mansion was beginning to show itself – with East Basham Hall in Nor [...]

Keywords: manors, ruins, entrances, windows, colour

Places shown: Walsingham; Norfolk; England

Added: 1999-11-01

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2106.—Inn at Charmouth. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I’m not sure if The Queens Arms is the same place. let me know!

Keywords: inns, animals, people, horses, carts, streets, cobbles, christmas, colour

Places shown: Charmouth; Dorset; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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The Standard of the White Horse Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A white horse rears up; it is set in a circular frame or cartouche with sword-hilts and an axe-head nearby.The White Horse was made by cutting away the grass on the side of a hill in the shape of a ho [...]

Keywords: horses, animals, frames, cartouches, animals, circles, swords, weapons, axes, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-05-16

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Circular Frame With Weapons Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This circular wood-engraved frame or cartouche is suitable for use as clip-art, perhaps for a restaurant menu or a scrapbook border around a picture. You could probably use it as a decorative initial [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, weapons, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-05-16

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Historiated Initial Letter “A” Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A decorative initial capital letter “A” at the start of a chapter. This “historiated” letter A shows a woodsman, perhaps, with an axe (ax) raised over his head and a sheep at his feet. It could also b [...]

Keywords: initials, lettera, historiated initials, inhabited initials, criblé, people, religion, animals, sacrifice, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-05-11

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2153.—Billiards (From “School of Recreation,” 1710) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“We perceive from the engraving of the Billiards of the seventtenth century (Fig. 2153), that the game was altogether different from what it is now. There were two instead of three balls, and a pair o [...]

Keywords: people, games, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-18

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2154.—Francis Moore, 1657. (From an anonymous Print published at that date) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“But Lilly’s popularity with the million chiefly originated in his almanac, which he began to publish in 1644, under the title of ‘Merlinus Anglicus, Junior.’ This obtained an amazing circulation, and [...]

Keywords: people, faces, portraits, astrology, occult, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-19

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2155.—Dee. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The most eminent of the names intimately connected with astrology, in modern [1840s] times at least, is that of John Dee (Fig. 2155), a man of remarkable ability and learning, who at the age of twent [...]

Keywords: astrology, portraits, people, beards, occult, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-19

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2156.—Kelly. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“It is in connection [... with ...] Edward Kelly (Fig. 2156) that the lovers of the miraculous have become most familiar with the name of Doctor Dee [see Fig. 2155]. Kelly entered his service as an as [...]

Keywords: astrology, occult, portraits, people, beards, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-19

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2157.—John Gadbury Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

John Gadbury published a popular almanack (alamanac) in the seventeenth century. He has a moustache and a small goatee beard.

Keywords: astrology, portraits, people, beards, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-02

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2175.—Chancel of St. Giles, Cripplegate. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This is a picture of the inside of the church now called St. Giles-without-Cripplegate (‘without’ being an old word meaning ‘outside’ or ‘beyond’). The modern church was largely rebuilt after being ba [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, pulpits, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2016-01-23

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2271.—Oxford from the Abingdon Road. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“If in one of those magic freaks of which eastern tales are so full, a person who had never seen Oxford or Cambridge, nor paid much attention to aught he might have read about them, were set down just [...]

Keywords: views, people, cities, cityscapes, water, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-03-18

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King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Sixteenth-Century chapel at King’s College in Cambridge University is famous not only for its music but also for its fabulous architecture. This 1845 engraving shows not only the amazing vaulted s [...]

Keywords: colour, interiors, chapels, architecture, windows, columns, religion, valuting, ceilings

Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2014-01-31

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2280.—The Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Pepys library holds over 3,000 volumes; the building probably dates from 1700 or so.Samuel Pepys himself wrote his name in a number of ways, including Pepis, Pepys, Peeps and Pepes.Pepys Library W [...]

Keywords: colleges, people, arches, trees, gothic, greyscale

Places shown: Magdalene College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2005-07-21

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