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The Isle of Wight (1895)

Cornish, C. J. (Charles John), 1858-1906, Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943. Dutch etchers of the seventeenth century, Cartwright, Julia. Raphael in Rome · London : Seeley ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 38

An illustration from The Isle of Wight, 1895, leaf 38
nt almost at sight, and can be verified at each step by the known records of the island. Stripped of every wall and tower the original Celtic earthwork would stand as a reproduction of those which crown most of the great chalk hills, from Winchester to Uffington Castle on the White Horse Hill.… … Carisbrook Castle. After Luke Cletinell. of the Norman Army at the Battle of Hastings. The Norman noble at once built the centre and symbol of feudal ownership, the castle keep, at the corner of the centre rampart, where it stood raised on the top of the ancient earth-mound, just as the Round Tower…

Raphael, 1483-1520 · Etchers · Etching, Dutch

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