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    Image number: RS.9294
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    “Stonehenge. Trilithons (B and C) from the South West”

    Date
    1867
    Creator
    Henry James (1803 - 1877, British) , Knight Director General of the Ordnance Survey, Surveyor
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    height (print): 239mm
    width (print): 189mm
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    Study of two triliths (posts and lintel) at Stonehenge, Wiltshire. A Victorian gentleman carrying an umbrella and notebook stands in front of the megalithic structure to indicate scale, one arm crooked. A soldier of the Royal Engineers stands with one hand upon the post, looking upward at the stone.

    Captioned below: “STONEHENGE. TRILITHONS (B AND C) FROM THE SOUTH WEST. Photographed by the Ordnance Survey Department, Colonel Sir Henry James R.E.:F.R.S.:&c.Director. 1867”

    Photographic plate 6 from Plans and photographs of Stonehenge, and of Turusachan in the Isle of Lewes; with notes relating to the druids and sketches of cromlechs in Ireland, by Colonel Sir Henry James. (Southampton, Ordnance Survey, 1867).
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