Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9296
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“Stonehenge. View from the South West”
Date
1867
Creator
Henry James (1803 - 1877, British) , Knight Director General of the Ordnance Survey, Surveyor
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Dimensions
height (print): 184mm
width (print): 233mm
width (print): 233mm
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Description
Landscape study of the ancient monument of Stonehenge, Wiltshire. A group of three male figures are visible between the standing stones.
Captioned below: “STONEHENGE. GENERAL VIEW FROM (G) ON THE LINE OF THE CENTRAL ENTRANCE. Photographed by the Ordnance Survey Department, Colonel Sir Henry James R.E.:F.R.S.:&c.Director. 1867”
Photographic plate 11 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).
Captioned below: “STONEHENGE. GENERAL VIEW FROM (G) ON THE LINE OF THE CENTRAL ENTRANCE. Photographed by the Ordnance Survey Department, Colonel Sir Henry James R.E.:F.R.S.:&c.Director. 1867”
Photographic plate 11 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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