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Frontispiece: Cathedral o Messina South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

This engraving was published in 1877; since then, the cathedral was damaged in an earthquake in 1919 and mostly rebuilt, only to be bombed in the Second World War and again partly rebuilt. In spite of [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, churches, architecture, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Messina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2012-05-29

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Frontispiece: United States Capitol, Washington Elements of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1825)

Engraving (probably a woodcut) of the US Capitol building in Washington, DC. The building was burned down in the War of 1812 by the British (from Canada), and this engraving was made before the new c [...]

Keywords: buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Washington; DC; USA

Added: 2009-01-25

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Sheldonian Theatre from Title Page The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary (1745)

The engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford where the book was printed. The engraving appears on the title page of each volume.

Keywords: buildings, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-11-11

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4.—View on the Grand Canal Venice (1907)

The Grand Canal, Venice; the Canal Grande is the largest canal in Venice.

Keywords: water, canals, colour, cities, buildings, colour

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-05-22

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49.—Huts in a Cingalese Village. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Cingalese people are the natives of Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka. “Of the domestic buildings of the early Britons there are no remains, if we except some circular stone foundations, which may have [...]

Keywords: people, forests, buildings, trees, views, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Sri Lanka

Added: 2005-08-30

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Houses of Parliament from the River, temp Charles II. London (Volume II) (1841)

The Houses of Parliament in Westminster, in the time of King Charles II, so between (roughly) 1650 and 1685; this is of course long before th 19th century changes, and before Big Ben was built.

Keywords: government, buildings, royalty, water, towers, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2009-04-21

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View From City Walls (Widescreen Version) Red Book Of York (1901)

A version of View from the City Walls cropped for use as a screen background. Choose the size nearest to your computer’s monitor resolution. There is also a 1600x1200 (4:3) version.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, cathedrals, cityscapes, buildings, people, views, street scenes, greyscale

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2008-09-23

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103.—Ruins of the Ancient Church of Reculver. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Roman remains still existing at Reculver are less interesting than those at Richborough, chiefly because they are of less magnitude and are more dilapidated. Very close to the ruins of the ancient [...]

Keywords: ruins, churches, anglosaxon remains, buildings, towers, spires, water, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Reculver; Kent; England

Added: 2011-03-28

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The Kitchen Wall, Peterhouse Cambridge (1920)

“But the history of the English Universities must be considered as that of communities into whose lives colleges were introduced for a social rather than a scholastic purpose. Cambridge grew into a se [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings, courtyards

Places shown: Peterhouse College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-28

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III.—View in Radcliffe Square The Charm of Oxford (1920)

“The visitor to Oxford often asks—“Where is the University?” The proper answer is: “The University is everywhere,” for the colleges are all parts of it. But if a distinction must be made, and some b [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, buildings, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-01-31

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7.—House of Jacques Cœur at Bourges (Begun 1443) Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

“‘Second only in importance to the churches and religious buildings come the military and domestic buildings of the Gothic period (Fig. 7).” A perspective view of a complex house with a courtyard. Jac [...]

Keywords: buildings, diagrams, rooves, towers, manors, greyscale

Places shown: Bourges; Cher; France

Added: 2006-08-08

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Rothamstead Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

“About the same distance from Sandridge to Water End in the opposite direction stands another typical semi-Elizabethan and Jacobean mansion, which, far from degenerating in its old age, has put on a n [...]

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-05

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