Sujet

Opening of the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway - Furness Abbey, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Opening of the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway - Furness Abbey, 1850. 'The splendid ruins of Furness Abbey, so striking from their antiquity, beauty, and grandeur, are considered of themselves of sufficient interest to repay the trouble of a visit; and the opening of this line will, no doubt, ere long, render them as familiar as they are wonderful and imposing...the spectator finds his interest divided between the grandeur of the ruins and the surpassing beauty of the valley in which they stand. Their grandeur may be imagined, when we state that they occupy a space of more than sixty acres. The architecture is a mixture of Norman and early English'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A36_346

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

57,7Mo (4,2Mo) / 42,0cm x 34,4cm / 4960 x 4068 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel transport transportation building England railways religious religion British Cumbria railway ruins medieval ruin Victorian century Britain newspapers press abbey ruined B&W tourist attraction engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W mediaeval Middle Ages nineteenth century tourism The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN Furness Abbey ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century Whitehaven & Furness Junction Railway Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway