Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pacific and Atlantic photos inc. London, England, United Kingdom [s 2] Monolith, the Face of Half Dome: 1927 Ansel Adams: Yosemite National Park, California, United States Glass plate [s 2] Bricklayer: 1928 August Sander: Cologne, Germany Gelatin silver print [s 3] The Pastry Cook: 1928 August Sander Cologne, Germany Large format [s 1] Woman of ...
St Paul's Survives is a photograph taken in London during the night air raid of 29–30 December 1940, the 114th night of the Blitz of World War II. It shows St Paul's Cathedral , illuminated by fires and surrounded by the smoke of burning buildings.
Johannes Vermeer, Lady Standing at a Virginal (1670–1672). Diego Velázquez, Rokeby Venus (1647–51). Anthony van Dyck, Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (1637–1638). Peter Paul Rubens, Samson and Delilah (1609–10).
"A New Hollar Panorama of London", John Orrell, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 124, No. 953 (Aug., 1982), pp. 498–499 and 501-502; Lithographed copy of Wenceslaus Hollar's 1647 Long View of London, by Robert Martin, 1832, Museum of London; The Prospect of London and Westminster taken from Lambeth by W Hollar, c.1647, British Museum
The history of tall structures in London began with the completion of the 27-metre (89 ft) White Tower, a part of the Tower of London, in 1098. [2] The first structure to surpass a height of 100 metres (328 ft) was the Old St Paul's Cathedral.
A similar engraving of London by Wenceslas Hollar in 1647 depicts a similar view, on six plates, Long View of London from Bankside, based on drawings done by Hollar in London in the early 1640s, from the tower of St Mary Overie. Hollar's panorama has a single viewpoint, and shows the River Thames curving sinuously from left to right past the ...
A further 87,000 high-resolution images are available for academic use under the gallery's own licence that invites donations in return; previously, the gallery charged for high-resolution images. [47] As of 2012, 100,000 images, around a third of the Gallery's collection, had been digitised. [47]
The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets , which is separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open ...