Old England

Castles, churches and the antiquities of everyday life share the page in prints from Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Rega...

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Castles, churches and the antiquities of everyday life share the page in prints from Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal, and Popular Antiquities, published by Charles Knight and Company in 1845. The subjects range from the chapter house at Salisbury and a view of Gloucester to Reading seen from Caversham Hill and scenes associated with Hogarth, while London is represented by the pleasures of Vauxhall and Rosamond's Pond. These are Victorian pictures of a past that may lie much earlier, showing how one publication arranged buildings, people and objects into an account of English life.

Castles, churches and the antiquities of everyday life share the page in prints from Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal, and Popular Antiquities, published by Charles Knight and Company in 1845. The subjects range from the chapter house at Salisbury and a view of Gloucester to Reading seen from Caversham Hill and scenes associated with Hogarth, while London is represented by the pleasures of Vauxhall and Rosamond's Pond. These are Victorian pictures of a past that may lie much earlier, showing how one publication arranged buildings, people and objects into an account of English life.

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