LIST OF COLOUR PLATES
Reading edition
Frontispiece. Pont St. Bénézet over the Rhône at Avignon. Built between the years 1177 and 1185. National Gallery of Australia.
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Railway Bridge at Albi in France 8
Pont Valentré at Cahors in France: the Fortified Gates and Towers. Thirteenth Century. See also the second picture of this Bastille Bridge 16
The Alcántara at Toledo. Mainly the work of Archbishop Tenorio, A.D. 1380; fortified by Andres Manrique, A.D. 1484. Collection of Miss E. C. Rossignol 32
War-Bridge of the Middle Ages at Parthenay in France 36
Cannon Street Railway Bridge, London. Collection of the Fine Art Society 48
Old London Bridge. Begun by Peter Colechurch in 1176, and finished by a Frenchman, called Isembert, in the year 1209 52
Old Bridge over the Clain near Poitiers 56
At Albi on the Tarn in France. Showing on our right the Old Houses, and beyond the Bridge, on our left, the great Old Church, famous for its fortifications 72
Tower Bridge, London. Collection of John Lane, Esq. 80
Famous Bridge at Espalion in France. Said to date from the Eighth Century 88
Pont du Tarn at Albi in France. Said to date from about the years 1035-40 92
Pont de Vernay at Airvault, Deux-Sèvres. Famous bridge with ribbed arches, French Romanesque Period, Twelfth Century 96
Old Bridge over the Aude at Carcassonne in France. Twelfth Century 104
Gothic Bridge at Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France 120
Ponte della Paglia at Venice. Renaissance. Collection of R. Workman, Esq. 152
Roman Aqueduct at Segovia in Spain 184
Huge Defensive Bridge at Córdova in Spain. Originally Roman, but remodelled by the Moors in the Ninth Century. Recently so much repaired that it looks almost new 188
Old Bridge with Houses at Kreuznach on the Nahe, Prussia 208
The Rialto in Venice. Designed in 1588 by Antonio da Ponte. Collection of the Fine Art Society 212
New London Bridge. Designed by George Rennie, and carried out by his brother, Sir John Rennie. Opened to the public in 1831. Collection of Charles Holme, Esq. 220
Three-Arched Bridge at Venice, over the Canal of St. Giobbe. Brick and stone. Renaissance. Collection of J. Heaton, Esq. 224
Gothic Bridge at Barnard Castle, Yorkshire 232
Gothic Bridge with Shrines at Elche in Spain 236
Old Bridge at Espaly, near Le Puy, in France 240
Pont des Consuls over the Tarn at Montauban in France. Fourteenth Century 256
Pont Valentré at Cahors-sur-Lot. Thirteenth Century. See also the other picture of this Bastille Bridge 264
The Alcántara at Toledo. Showing the Moorish Gateway at the Town end of the Bridge. See also the other picture 284
Spanish War-Bridge—the Bridge of St. Martin at Toledo. Its history seems to date from 1212, but in the fourteenth century it was rebuilt by Archbishop Tenorio 288
Ponte Nomentano over the Anio; a Mediæval War-Bridge in the Campagna 296
Laroque on the River Lot, near Cahors. A sort of inland Gibraltar; a part of the village is built on bridges thrown across chasms in the rocks 300
Pont Neuf at Paris. Built in 1604, but much altered since the Renaissance 320
The Tower Bridge, London. Albertina Collection, Vienna. See also the other drawing 328
Pont Henri IV over the Vienne at Châtellerault in France. Built by Charles Androuet du Cerceau, 1564-1609 332
Pont de Tours, France. Famous Bridge of the Eighteenth Century 344
On the Tarn at Millau in Southern France. Representing the broken end of an old bridge with a mill built on it; behind is an arch of the new bridge 352