Access Gallery

Verderer at the gate of Royal Enclosure, Ascot

One of the Royal Foresters, or Verderers, of Windsor Park, performing his annual duty of keeping guard at the gate of the Royal Enclosure during Ascot Week, access to which was one of the most exclusive invitations during the Season. Formerly, the duties of a Verderer of the King's forest were, in the formidable words of Blackstone, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses, a task from which keeping the gate at Ascot would be a pleasant change indeed. Date: 1928

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Egypt. Saqqara. Djosers complex. The serdab. Statue of Djos

Egypt. Saqqara. Djoser's complex. The serdab, a small enclosed chamber. Copy of the statue of the pharaoh Djoser, currently on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.Third Millennium. Old Kingdom

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Burgos Cathedral of St. 1221-1568. SPAIN. Burgos

Burgos Cathedral of St. 1221-1568. SPAIN. Burgos. Cathedral of St. Mary. Sarmental Gate (1240). Gate giving access to the south arm of the crossing. At the door's mullion appears a bishop's figure. At the tympanum, Christ figure in Majesty with the four Evangelists and, under them, the figures of the Twelve Apostles.On the sid. Gothic art. Relief on rock

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