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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 47

An illustration from The Isle of Wight, 1895, leaf 47
ands, or rather stood, on an estuary between Yarmouth and Cowes. This was the natural port of the island in the days of the early Angevin kings, facing their harbour at Lymington, whither they came from their capital at Winchester, through the royal domain of the New Forest. Arrived at Newtown, the… … Newport. By John Fullwood. the harbour of Newtown to the gates of Carisbrook. It is not flattering to English pride to know that this natural capital had to be deserted owing to foreign invasion. In the reign of Richard II. in 1377, the French burnt it to the ground, and though it was rebuilt, and…

Raphael, 1483-1520 · Etchers · Etching, Dutch

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