Illustrated London News Vol 56 (page 1/5)

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Screen in Selby Church

“The Abbey of Selbey was founded by William the Conqueror, who richly endowed it, according to some because it was the place where Matilda of Flanders gave birth to Henry Beauclerc, while others state that this event was subsequent to the foundation. [...] It is in the Norman, the Early English, and the Decorated Styles [obviously only the Norman part [...] the central tower and mutliated south transept.” (p. 353) [more...] [$]

Out of the World

“[...] The scene is one which we understand the artist witnessed years ago at the Franciscan monastery at Tivoli. In a whiewashed cell of the monastery a young monk sits playing the [more...] [$]

Festival at the East London Hospital For Children on New Year’s Eve

FESTIVAL AT THE
EAST LONDON HOSPITAL
FOR CHILDREN.
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Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: N.—Viola di Bordone

A Violoa di Bordone is a stringed musical instrument played with a bow. It is a sort of viol with cat-gut strings, but with a second, parallel set of metal strings. The metal strings are not played with the bow directly, but resonate in [more...] [$]

Gadshill Place, Home of Charles Dickens.

A photograph of Charles Dickens outside his country home, Gadshill Place (also Gads Hill or Gas’s Hill Place) in Higham, Kent, UK, taken shortly before his death in 1870. [more...] [$]