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Background imageRuin Collection: The Bathing Pool. Creator: Hubert Robert

The Bathing Pool. Creator: Hubert Robert
The Bathing Pool

Background imageRuin Collection: The Gin Shop, 1829

The Gin Shop, 1829
The Gin Shop, pub. 1829 (hand coloured engraving)

Background imageRuin Collection: The New Zealander, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré

The New Zealander, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré
The New Zealander, 1872. A figure sits on the banks of the River Thames contemplating the downfall of the city. From, " LONDON. A Pilgrimage" by Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold

Background imageRuin Collection: Dryburgh Abbey, c1850

Dryburgh Abbey, c1850. Located on the banks of the River Tweed, Scotland, the abbey was founded in 1152 by Premonstratensian monks. From Old Englands Worthies, London, c1850

Background imageRuin Collection: Untitled (Ruins of Roman Forum), c. 1867. Creator: Robert MacPherson

Untitled (Ruins of Roman Forum), c. 1867. Creator: Robert MacPherson
Untitled (Ruins of Roman Forum), c. 1867. A work made of albumen print

Background imageRuin Collection: Ruins of the Temple of Kom Ombo, Egypt, c1845. Artist: David Roberts

Ruins of the Temple of Kom Ombo, Egypt, c1845. Artist: David Roberts
Ruins of the Temple of Kom Ombo, Egypt, c1845. From Egypt and Nubia, Vol 1, by David Roberts

Background imageRuin Collection: Beeston Castle, Cheshire, c1839, (1938). Artist: JMW Turner

Beeston Castle, Cheshire, c1839, (1938). Artist: JMW Turner
Beeston Castle, Cheshire, c1839, (1938). From A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the collection of Frederick John Nettleford, Volume IV, by C. Reginald Grundy and F. Gordon Roe

Background imageRuin Collection: The Great Hall, Eltham Palace, Kent, 1804. Artist: J Storer

The Great Hall, Eltham Palace, Kent, 1804. Artist: J Storer
The Great Hall, Eltham Palace, Kent, 1804. Eltham Palace (now in Greater London), was founded as a medieval royal palace, but fell into disrepair until the ruins were converted into a private house

Background imageRuin Collection: From the North-West, Kirkstall Abbey, c1880, (1897). Artist: Alexander Francis Lydon

From the North-West, Kirkstall Abbey, c1880, (1897). Artist: Alexander Francis Lydon
From the North-West, Kirkstall Abbey, c1880, (1897). From The Ruined Abbeys of Britain by Frederick Ross. [William Mackenzie, London, 1897]

Background imageRuin Collection: The drunken Hercules, House of the Stags, Herculaneum, Italy

The drunken Hercules, House of the Stags, Herculaneum, Italy

Background imageRuin Collection: Coliseum, c. 1867. Creator: Robert MacPherson

Coliseum, c. 1867. Creator: Robert MacPherson
Coliseum, c. 1867. A work made of albumen print

Background imageRuin Collection: Danejohn Hill, Canterbury, Kent, 1829. Creator: James Baylis Allen

Danejohn Hill, Canterbury, Kent, 1829. Creator: James Baylis Allen
Danejohn Hill, Canterbury, Kent, 1829. The Dane John Mound, a former Roman cemetery, was converted into a motte-and-bailey castle in the 11th century

Background imageRuin Collection: Ruins of the Cloisters at Messines, 1914. Artist: Adolf Hitler

Ruins of the Cloisters at Messines, 1914. Artist: Adolf Hitler
Ruins of the Cloisters at Messines, 1914. Adolf Hitler often claimed to be a frustrated artist, and art was one of his major interests throughout his life

Background imageRuin Collection: Barnard Castle, Durham, c1905

Barnard Castle, Durham, c1905. View of the ruins of the castle overlooking the River Tees. The castle was originally built by the Normans but reached the height of its importance in the second half

Background imageRuin Collection: The Church of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, 1740 / 41. Creator: Michele Marieschi

The Church of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, 1740 / 41. Creator: Michele Marieschi
The Church of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, 1740/41

Background imageRuin Collection: Colosseum, Rome, 2nd View, May 1846. Creator: Calvert Jones

Colosseum, Rome, 2nd View, May 1846. Creator: Calvert Jones
Colosseum, Rome, 2nd View, May 1846. [Amphitheatre built in the 1st century AD, Rome, Italy]. Salted paper print

Background imageRuin Collection: Kirkstall Abbey. From the West, 1850s. Creator: Joseph Cundall

Kirkstall Abbey. From the West, 1850s. Creator: Joseph Cundall
Kirkstall Abbey. From the West, 1850s

Background imageRuin Collection: Forum Romanum, 1818. Artist: JMW Turner

Forum Romanum, 1818. Artist: JMW Turner
Forum Romanum, 1818. Painting held at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. From The Connoisseur Volume LXXXI. [The Connoisseur Ltd. London, 1928]

Background imageRuin Collection: Scene of the explosion of gunpowder magazines near Erith, 1864. Creator: Unknown

Scene of the explosion of gunpowder magazines near Erith, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Scene of the explosion of gunpowder magazines near Erith, 1864. '...a general view, taken from the embankment looking down the river,...[after] the destructive explosion at the Belvedere

Background imageRuin Collection: The explosion of a gunpowder magazine near Erith: ruins of Silver's house, 1864. Creator: Unknown

The explosion of a gunpowder magazine near Erith: ruins of Silver's house, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The explosion of a gunpowder magazine near Erith: ruins of Rayner's house, 1864. Engraving from '...a photograph taken with the newly-invented panoramic camera by the "London Pantascopic

Background imageRuin Collection: The explosion of a gunpowder magazine near Erith: ruins of Rayner's house, 1864. Creator: Unknown

The explosion of a gunpowder magazine near Erith: ruins of Rayner's house, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The explosion of a gunpowder magazine near Erith: ruins of Rayner's house, 1864. Illustration of '...what is left of the house of George Rayner, storekeeper to the magazine of Messrs

Background imageRuin Collection: The Great Fire in the City: ruins of Haberdashers' Hall, 1864. Creator: Unknown

The Great Fire in the City: ruins of Haberdashers' Hall, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Great Fire in the City: ruins of Haberdashers' Hall, [City of London], 1864. 'In a conflagration of a calamitous extent...one of the oldest of our civic halls - that of

Background imageRuin Collection: Ruins of the village of Billinghay, Lincolnshire, after the late fire, 1864. Creator: Unknown

Ruins of the village of Billinghay, Lincolnshire, after the late fire, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Ruins of the village of Billinghay, Lincolnshire, after the late fire, 1864. 'We give a View of the ruins of a part of the village of Billinghay, which was destroyed by fire on Friday

Background imageRuin Collection: The terrible calamity in Santiago, Chili: ruins of La Compania [Compañía] Church, 1864

The terrible calamity in Santiago, Chili: ruins of La Compania [Compañía] Church, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The terrible calamity in Santiago, Chili: ruins of La Compania [Compania] Church, 1864. Engraving of a photograph by Thomas Columbus Flelsby

Background imageRuin Collection: Bailleul, 1918, Sept 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Bailleul, 1918, Sept 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Bailleul, 1918, Sept 1918. The ruins of Bailleul, France after the German forces left on August 30, 1918 during the Battle of Bailleul which was part of the Battle of the Lys in World War I

Background imageRuin Collection: Recent discoveries in the buried city of Pompeii: general view of the excavations, 1864

Recent discoveries in the buried city of Pompeii: general view of the excavations, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Recent discoveries in the buried city of Pompeii: general view of the excavations, 1864. Engraving from a photograph '...placed at our disposal by the Rev

Background imageRuin Collection: Somme district, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Somme district, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Somme district, between c1915 and 1918. Buildings damaged during World War I in the Somme department, France.

Background imageRuin Collection: Church, Belleville, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Church, Belleville, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Church, Belleville, between c1915 and 1918. Ruins of Saint-Jean-Baptiste church, Verdun, France, during World War I.

Background imageRuin Collection: Castle at Ham, 2 Mar 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Castle at Ham, 2 Mar 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Castle at Ham, 2 Mar 1918 (date created or published later). The Cha^teau de Ham (fort or forteresse de Ham), a castle in Ham, Somme department

Background imageRuin Collection: Ruins of Senlis, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service

Ruins of Senlis, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Ruins of Senlis, between c1915 and c1920. Damage from World War I in Senlis, part of the province of l'Oise in the region of Picardy in the north of France.

Background imageRuin Collection: Ruins in the Somme, 3 Aug 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Ruins in the Somme, 3 Aug 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Ruins in the Somme, 3 Aug 1918 (date created or published later). Buildings damaged during World War I in the Somme department, France.

Background imageRuin Collection: Verdun - Garden & Synagogue near Polboulhot St. [Rue des Fre`res Boulhaut], between c1915 and 1918

Verdun - Garden & Synagogue near Polboulhot St. [Rue des Fre`res Boulhaut], between c1915 and 1918. The ruins of the Synagogue of Verdun that was damaged during World War I in Verdun, France.

Background imageRuin Collection: Verdun - Laurent printing shop, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Verdun - Laurent printing shop, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Verdun - Laurent printing shop, between c1915 and 1918. The synagogue of Verdun and a print shop that were damaged during World War I in Verdun, France.

Background imageRuin Collection: At Arras, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

At Arras, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
At Arras, between c1915 and 1918. The Cha^teau of Tilloloy, France which was damaged during World War I.

Background imageRuin Collection: Ham - Noyon St. & Nide Blvd., between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service. Ham - Noyon St

Ham - Noyon St. & Nide Blvd., between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service. Ham - Noyon St
Ham - Noyon St. & Nide Blvd., between c1915 and c1920. A street in Ham, Somme department, France with buildings damaged during World War I.

Background imageRuin Collection: Organ in cathedral at Peronne, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Organ in cathedral at Peronne, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Organ in cathedral at Peronne, between c1915 and 1918. An organ in the ruins of the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Pe´ronne in Pe´ronne, France during World War I.

Background imageRuin Collection: British officers' luncheon in wrecked village, 1917 25 April 1917. Creator: Bain News Service

British officers' luncheon in wrecked village, 1917 25 April 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British officers' luncheon in wrecked village, 1917 25 April 1917. British officers eating lunch in the ruins of a building at E´treillers, Aisne, France on April 25, 1917 during World War I.

Background imageRuin Collection: Hotel de Ville, Arras, 26 May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service

Hotel de Ville, Arras, 26 May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Hotel de Ville, Arras, 26 May 1917. Ruins of the Hotel de Ville, Arras, France on May 26, 1917 during World War I.

Background imageRuin Collection: How the Przemysl Forts were wrecked, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service

How the Przemysl Forts were wrecked, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
How the Przemysl Forts were wrecked, between 1914 and c1915. Fort in Przemysl, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Poland) during World War I.

Background imageRuin Collection: Fromelles - Uninjured figure in wrecked church, 29 July 1915. Creator: Bain News Service

Fromelles - Uninjured figure in wrecked church, 29 July 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Fromelles - Uninjured figure in wrecked church, 29 July 1915 (date created or published later). A crucifix in a ruined church in Fromelles, France during World War I.

Background imageRuin Collection: King Geo. views Peronne, 13 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service

King Geo. views Peronne, 13 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
King Geo. views Peronne, 13 Jul 1917. King George V, Edward, Prince of Wales, and Gen. Julian Byng visiting the ruins of Peronne, France during World War I.

Background imageRuin Collection: Albert Church & [falling] Madonna, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Albert Church & [falling] Madonna, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Albert Church & [falling] Madonna, between c1915 and 1918. The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Brebie`res, Albert, Sommes, France after the sculpture of Mary

Background imageRuin Collection: Longwy, Church wrecked by aeroplanes, 5 Feb 1916. Creator: Bain News Service

Longwy, Church wrecked by aeroplanes, 5 Feb 1916. Creator: Bain News Service
Longwy, Church wrecked by aeroplanes, 5 Feb 1916 (date created or published later). A church in Longwy, Belgium, possibly Saint-Dagobert Church, which was damaged by bombing during World War I.

Background imageRuin Collection: Very old stone building in the garden of the Rostov Kremlin, which according to legend..., 1911

Very old stone building in the garden of the Rostov Kremlin, which according to legend..., 1911
Very old stone building in the garden of the Rostov Kremlin, which according to legend, was used as a bathhouse in the Rostov Archbishop's house; in the Rostov Museum, Rostov Velikii, 1911.

Background imageRuin Collection: Shaitanskii factory, ceasing operations in 1905, Shaitanski Zavod, 1912

Shaitanskii factory, ceasing operations in 1905, Shaitanski Zavod, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Shaitanskii factory, ceasing operations in 1905, Shaitanski Zavod, 1912.

Background imageRuin Collection: 'Nero after the Burning of Rome', by Carl Piloty, in the late International Exhibition, 1862

"Nero after the Burning of Rome", by Carl Piloty, in the late International Exhibition, 1862. Engraving of a painting

Background imageRuin Collection: 'After the Battle', by P. H. Calderon, A.R.A., 1864. Creator: W Thomas. 'After the Battle', by P

"After the Battle", by P. H. Calderon, A.R.A., 1864. Creator: W Thomas. "After the Battle", by P
"After the Battle", by P. H. Calderon, A.R.A., 1864. Engraving of a painting. 'A battle has raged in and around a Flemish village; the English have been victorious

Background imageRuin Collection: The Great Fire at Limoges, France: firemen and soldiers clearing out a portion of the ruins…

The Great Fire at Limoges, France: firemen and soldiers clearing out a portion of the ruins…, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Scene of the Great Fire at Limoges, France - from a sketch by our special artist: firemen and soldiers of the garrison clearing out a portion of the ruins, 1864



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