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Concept

Castles

Images

  • Lourdes and Gave-de-Pau, Hautes Pyrénées, France: peasants fishing with the castle in the background. Lithograph, 1821, after M. Colston.
  • Durga on a lotus with all her weapons surrounded by devotees. Gouache drawing.
  • Crimean War: aerial view of the Castle Hospital, Balaclava. Lithograph after Lady Alicia Blackwood.
  • A large goose, with three golden eggs: numbered circles printed on the body of the goose for playing the game of goose. Coloured engraving.
  • A storm at sea, with a sailing ship being wrecked on rocks. Etching by Claude Lorrain, ca. 1635-1640.
All images (33)

Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts
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    M0001672: Photograph of the round tower and arch to gateway of the Castle of Chinchón, Spain

    | Date: 03 March 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/15/67
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    A storm at sea, with a sailing ship being wrecked on rocks. Etching by Claude Lorrain, ca. 1635-1640.

    Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682. | Date: 1640 | Reference: 524712i
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    A female goddess with a castle on her head (representing an Earth goddess or Geometry) holds up a tablet engraved with faces from which a man copies; two angels and a swan sit with them in the clouds. Engraving by T. Holloway, 1810.

    | Date: 1810 | Reference: 31826i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Durga on a lotus with all her weapons surrounded by devotees. Gouache drawing.

    | Reference: 27814i
    • Books

    The early Norman castles of the British Isles / by Ella S. Armitage ; with plans by D. H. Montgomerie.

    Armitage, Ella S. | Date: 1912
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