Items taken from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) (results page 8)

189.—Arms and Costume of a Saxon Military Chief. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The man in the figure is a Saxon soldier. In one hand he holds up a bowl. In the other he holds his spear and shield. He wears a billowing cloak and either boots or shoes with leggings that leave hi [...]

Keywords: costumes, people, soldiers, weapons, saxon england, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-07

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190.—Arms and Costume of an Anglo-Saxon King and Armour Bearer. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A King brandishes a sword; he holds a large shield. At his side and slightly behind him, a boy or young man has a smaller shield.

Keywords: costumes, people, soldiers, weapons, royalty, saxon england, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-09

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191.—Arms and costume of the Tribes on the Western Shores of the Baltic. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Two young men are dressed as soldiers, with metal plate armour (or possibly leather armour). One has a spear or javelin, and the other a sword; both have shields and helmets. In the foreground a cur [...]

Keywords: people, soldiers, weapons, spears, shields, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-08-03

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192.—Arms and Costume of Danish Warriors Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Two male soldiers are shown, one bearded and one beardless. On the right, a man with a headdress of some kind wears a short kilt or skirt, and has one hand resting on his thigh and the other holding a [...]

Keywords: soldiers, people, weapons, swords, costumes, stone circles, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-24

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193.—Costume of a Soldier. From Cotton MS. Tib. C. 6. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Cotton Manuscript Tiberius C. vi is a psalter from the 11th century. The soldier here has a beard pointy shoes (and striped socks I think), and carries a spear.

Keywords: soldiers, weapons, spears, costumes, beards, clipart, saxon england, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-28

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194.—Ringed Mail. Cotton MS. Claud. B, 4. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An illustration of a Biblical scene but with Anglo-Saxon costumes and weapons. A king (with a long forked breard) wears a crown, brandishes a heavy sword and carries a shield; he wears ring-mail. Next [...]

Keywords: soldiers, royalty, kings, weapons, swords, shields, mail, armour, saxon england, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-07-19

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209.—Tower of Earl’s Barton Church Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The church in Earl’s Barton, in Northamptonshire, is a work of several periods of our Gothic architecture; but the tower is now universally admitted to be of Saxon construction (Fig. 209). It exhibits [...]

Keywords: towers, churches, anglosaxon remains, saxon england, greyscale

Places shown: Earl’s Barton; Northamptonshire; England

Added: 2005-08-23

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210.—Edward the Confessor’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey,—now used as the Pix office. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Under its original name of the Isle of Bramble or thorn-ea, Westminster was a place of importance before London existed.[...]“The Saxon king Sebert (597 – 616) built a monastery on the site now occup [...]

Keywords: abbeys, churches, castles, anglosaxon remains, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2005-03-17

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211.—Windows from the Palace of Westminster Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The windows are supposed here to be of Saxon origin; that is, dating between A.D. 440 and A.D. 1100 or so.“A doorway remaining of the old palace at Westminster exhibits the triangular arch (Fig. 212). [...]

Keywords: windows, arches, anglosaxon remains, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2005-05-05

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227.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of January. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The central portion of the engraving (Fig. 227) represents the ploughman at his labour. Four oxen are employed in the team, and they are guided by a man in front, who bears a long staff. The sower fol [...]

Keywords: january, months, fields, horses, agriculture, people, farmers, mythology, cartouches, saxon england, calendars, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-12-06

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228.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of February. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

February.“They called February Sprout-kele, by kele meaning the kele-wort, which we now call the cole-wort, the great pot-wort in time long past that our ancestors used; and the broth made therewith w [...]

Keywords: feburary, months, forests, trees, people, bare feet, cartouches, borders, saxon england, calendars, fires, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-02-06

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229.—Residence of a Saxon Nobleman. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There’s a lot going on in this Anglo-Saxon nobleman’s house. The nobleman seems to have an open book upside-down on his lap and is handing something, possibly bread, to one of the beggars at his door, [...]

Keywords: saxon england, people, poverty, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2012-06-16

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230.—Hawking. From Cotton MS. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“All ranks of the Anglo-Saxons delighted in the chace. The young nobles were trained to hunting after their school-days of Latin, as we are told in Asser’s ‘Life of Alfred.’[...]The illumination of th [...]

Keywords: sports, people, birds, falconry, saxon england, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-04-28

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231.—Boar-Hunting.—(From Cotton MS.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The woodcut here is a drawing showing two men, each holding a spear, and in Anglo-Saxon dress with short tunics ending above theknee, and a dog;they are in a forest and in front of them are tw boars, [...]

Keywords: hunting, men, people, weapons, spears, anglo-saxon costumes, dogs, animals, trees, forests, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2019-06-09

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232.—Copper Syca. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Anglo-Saxon Coins and Seals; the White HorseThe coins of a country are amongst the most valuable and interesting of its material monuments. “The study of coins is not to be considered as the province [...]

Keywords: coins, saxon england, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-10-30

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233.—Silver Coin. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A silver coin, a sceatta (pronouncedshottuh, roughly), from the Anglo-Saxon period.The little silver coin, Fig. 233, is called a sceatta. This is a literal Anglo-Saxon word which means money; and when [...]

Keywords: coins, saxon england, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-10-30

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234.—Silver Penny of Offa, King of Mercia. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The silver coins of the princes of the Heptarchy are for the most part pennies. There is an extensive series of such coins of the kings of Mercia. The halfpenny and the farthing are the ancient names [...]

Keywords: coins, saxon england, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-19

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235.—Silver Penny of Regnald, King of Northumbria Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

King Regnald ruled the kingdon of Northumbria from A.D. 919-921; the index entry has it as King Reynold.

Keywords: coins, saxon england, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-04

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236.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of March Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

MarchHere we see a hunter with a horn and spear; a man pruning trees with a scythe (or possibly climbing fences with a banana); a man digging with a spade in the field, loosening the soil; another wit [...]

Keywords: march, people, months, calendars, bare feet, cartouches, borders, saxon england, farming, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-11-30

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237.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of April. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

AprilThe illumination of the Saxon Calendar for this month represents three persons elevated on a sort of throne, each with drinking-cups in their hands, and surrounded with attendants upon their fest [...]

Keywords: april, months, courts, thrones, agriculture, people, bare feet, cartouches, borders, saxon england, calendars, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-01-04

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