Granite Collection

Buddon Wood, Mountsorrel, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of the granite (or syenite) district viewed from Swithland Old Slate Quarry, including Buddon Wood, Mountsorrel, Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Leicestershire

Ardconnel Terrace, Oban, Argyllshire, Scotland, McCaig Tower
Ardconnel Terrace, Oban, Argyllshire, Scotland showing the McCaig Tower. Situated on the west coast of Scotland and built of Bonawe granite between 1897 and 1902

Buddon Wood, Kinchley Hill, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire
Sketch of the Swithland area of Leicestershire, looking north-east towards Buddon Wood, Kinchley Hill and Mountsorrel, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

The Highway to the South - Scott expedition
The magnificent entrance to the Beardmore Glacier showing the snow slope leading up to the two massive granite pillars through which Captain Scott passed with his men

Schoolboys sitting on The Table Rock, Glyder Fach, Snowdon, North Wales Date: circa 1930s

Granite Quarry, New Hampshire, USA - Chanelling Date: circa 1909

Boer War Memorial unveiling, Haverfordwest, South Wales
Commemorative photograph of the unveiling of the Boer War Memorial at St Mary the Virgin Church, High Street, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Goddess Sekhmet, Sculpture. Medinet Habu. Egypt
Goddess Sekhmet, goddess of war, represented with head of a lioness and the human body and crowned with the solar disk. Sculpture in the mortuary temple of Ramses III (1187-1156 BC). New Kingdom

Granite Quarries, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire
Sketch of Granite Quarries, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, viewed from the rocks near Buddon Wood, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of quarrying (probably granite) at Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Swithland, Leicestershire, with granite and slate quarries
Sketch of the Swithland area of Leicestershire, with granite at the top of Kinchley Hill, a small quarry to the right, Buddon Wood (granite) to the right, and Charnwood Forest (slate) to the left

Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of granite rocks at Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Trades in Regency England: glass-blowing, colliery and tanning. Workers blowing molten glass into bottles and goblets in a Newcastle factory 67

Cow Goddess Hathor nursing Pharaoh Horemheb
Fragment of a granite statue depicting cow goddess Hathor nursing Pharaoh Horemheb. Reign of Horemheb. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1319-1292 BC. Date: 13th century BC

Egypt Aswan Quarries Victorian period

Aswan Quarry, Egypt, Victorian period

Chteau DOrgueille
This painting provides an aerial view of Mont Orgueil, a castle in Jersey which overlooks Gorey Harbour, and curved row of waterside houses. The castle was constructed in granite, during 1204

Arch of the old cloister of the Santiago Cathedral
Reconstruction of an arch of the old cloister of the Santiago Cathedral. Mid 13th century. Compostela Workshop. Carved granite and remains of polychromy. On deposit from Santiago Cathedral, Galicia

Spain, Extremadura, Caceres. Co-Cathedral of Santa Maria. 12th-16th century. Transitional style Romanesque to Gothic with Renaissance elements. Portada del Evangelio. One of the two Gothic doorways

Spain. Valley of the Fallen (Valle de los Caidos). 1940-1958. Monumental memorial dedicated by the Franco regime to the dead of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

Djehapimu sarcophagus case. Egypt
Djehapimu sarcophagus case. High Royal official. Late Period. 746-332 BC. Granite. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany

Statuette of Osiris. Granite. Third Intermediate Period. Eg
Statuette of Osiris wearing crown and royal scepters in their hands. Granite. C. 700 B.C. 25th Dynasty. Third Intermediate Period. Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark

Calvary of Hio. Galicia. Spain
Calvary of Hio. 1872. Carved by Master Cervino. Depicts the Descent from the Cross. Galicia. Spain

Egyptian Art. Sarcophagus of Wennefer. Late Period. Dynasty 30-2nd Persian Period. 380332 B.C. Memphite Region, Saqqara, Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Paris, France - Invalides, Tombeau de Napoleon II, son of Napoleon Bonaparte. Date: circa 1855

1861 Paris France Tombeau Tomb Tombs Napoleon
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Paris, France - Invalides, Tombeau de Napoleon. 1853

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Karl Marx monument, Moscow, Russia
The Karl Marx monument in Teatralnaya Square, Moscow, Russia, around the time of its unveiling in 1961. It was carved on the spot from a 200 ton block of granite

New York Post Office, New York City, NY, USA. Date: circa 1910s

Heads of Egyptian gods and goddesses
Statue of the Egyptian goddess Isis in granite from the villa Palombara 1, Egyptian deity in the Kircherian Museum 2, and Egyptian deity found in the Temple of Canopus in Tivoli 3

Statue of an Egyptian priest of the god Averruncus in red oriental granite found in the Gardens of Sallust. Copperplate engraving by G. Bossi after an illustration by A

Village of El Querebya under the Funj Kingdom
Village of El Querebya (El Querebyn) under the Funj Kingdom of Sennar, Sudan. In the village of round huts on the Blue Nile

59th (South Staffs) Division Memorial Galmanche
The Division claims to be the first to enter Caen which it did on 9 July The small granite memorial was erected by the villagers of Sainte-Contest

Discoveries in the Great Egyptian pyramid
Discoveries in the Great Egyptian Pyramid - 1 Original casing stone from the north side - 2. Granite ball, 1lb 3oz in weight - 2. Piece of cedar, apparently a measure- 4

Norman doorway, Ullard Church, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Norman-Romanesque doorway, Ullard Church, County Kilkenny, Ireland, dating back to the 12th century. Date: circa 1900s

The Causeway, Victor Harbour, Australia
The Causeway, Victor Harbour, South Australia, showing a horse-drawn tram travelling from Granite Island. Date: circa 1910s

The sculpting of the Titanic Statue designed by Mrs Harry Payne Whitney and Mr John Horrigan, representing the last inspiration of a departing soul

Queen Victoria laying foundation stone, Royal Albert Hall
Queen Victoria laying the red Aberdeen granite foundation stone. Over 7, 000 people gathered under a huge temporary marquee, erected for the occasion, to see Date: 20th May 1867

A fine pattern study of granite cobbled stone sets on an unspecified British sea front. Date: 1950s

The New Court House, St. Johns, Newfoundland
circa 1910s

Albert Statue and Town Church, Guernsey, Channel Islands. Designed by Joseph Durham (1814-1877) and unveiled in 1863, this bronze statue on a granite pedestal overlooks the harbour at St. Peter Port

Nelsons Column (1840-1843). Trafalgar Square. London
Nelsons Column (1840-1843). Designed by William Railton (1800-1877), was built to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). Corinthian order and Dartmor granite

The Repaving of the Strand, London 1851
Group of men working to re-pave the road surface in the Strand, London. This image shows the workers using their heavy rammers to level off the surface of granite blocks. Date: 1851

Rubislaw Quarry in Aberdeen 1909
Rubislaw Quarry, located at the Hill of Rubislaw in the west end of the Scottish city of Aberdeen. Date: 1909

Australia - Victor Harbour from Umbrella Rock - Granite Island, South Australia. Date: circa 1910

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