The Thames: Or Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery, on the Banks of that Noble River |
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The scenery of Ham Farm , Woo, burn Farm , and Oatlands , give beauty and splendour to its banks ; and having passed the small retired village of Shepperton , and flowed through Walton Bridge , its Middlesex side is decorated with a ...
The scenery of Ham Farm , Woo, burn Farm , and Oatlands , give beauty and splendour to its banks ; and having passed the small retired village of Shepperton , and flowed through Walton Bridge , its Middlesex side is decorated with a ...
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The interior of the cloisters is decorated , or disgraced by hieroglyphics , which , Dr. Stukeley says , are whimsical figures that serve to amuse the vulgar , and must have been the licentious inventions of the mason .
The interior of the cloisters is decorated , or disgraced by hieroglyphics , which , Dr. Stukeley says , are whimsical figures that serve to amuse the vulgar , and must have been the licentious inventions of the mason .
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The High Street receives an additional decoration from the beautiful Church of All Saints . This fabric is enriched within and without with Corinthian pilasters : an attic story and balustrade completes its exterior appearance ; while a ...
The High Street receives an additional decoration from the beautiful Church of All Saints . This fabric is enriched within and without with Corinthian pilasters : an attic story and balustrade completes its exterior appearance ; while a ...
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The other windows are decorated with figures of the Christian and Cardinal Virtues , from cartoons by the same great master . Over the altar - piece is a fine picture of the Shepherds visiting Christ after his Nativity by Augustino ...
The other windows are decorated with figures of the Christian and Cardinal Virtues , from cartoons by the same great master . Over the altar - piece is a fine picture of the Shepherds visiting Christ after his Nativity by Augustino ...
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It is a large circular stone building , crowned with a dome , and enriched to profusion within and without with all the decorations of the Corinthian order .
It is a large circular stone building , crowned with a dome , and enriched to profusion within and without with all the decorations of the Corinthian order .
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| Title | The Thames: Or Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery, on the Banks of that Noble River Volume 1 of The Thames; Or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery, on the Banks of that Noble River, William Bernard Cooke |
| Author | Samuel Owen |
| Illustrated by | William Bernard Cooke, Samuel Owen |
| Publisher | Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1811 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 20, 2007 |
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