Carisbrooke Castle.
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“O, uncertain path of life: in our hopes how little security: in our joy what short duration! where can weak man find shelter? Where in this short life peace?”—Camoems.
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Steel Plate.—View of the Castle from the North, showing the Keep, and Gate, and OutworksSargent.Radcliffe.
Entrance to the Keep by an ascent of seventy-two stone stepsSargent.Evans.281
Carisbrooke Castle—The ancient Donjon—partly Saxon—from the “Roman Mounds”Sargent.Evans.283
The Barracks and Governor’s House, with the Keep, from Mountjoy TowerSargent.Evans.285
Ancient Gate in the Castle, viewed from the Interior, leading to the stepsSargent.Evans.287
Part of the Keep, known as the Flag-staff Tower, with the BattlementSargent.Evans.289
Portrait of Henry Beauchamp, crowned King of the Isle of Wight, in his Coronation Robes, from the original by Rous, British Museum Herman.291
Norman Gate, from the Interior, with the Original Oaken Door, said to be 500 years oldSargent.Evans.293
The Governor’s House, with part of the Barracks, erected by Queen ElizabethSargent.Evans.294
The Great Gate, with Round Prison Towers, Machicolations, and Queen Elizabeth’s Gate in the foreground. View taken from the roadSargent.Evans.296
The Garrison Well, showing the Great Windlass-Wheel, &c.; with the Interior of the Building as it now appearsSargent.Evans.297
Sign-Manual of King Charles I., from the Original MS. British MuseumHerman.Walmesley.298
“Queen Elizabeth’s Tower,” with the Outer Gate and Landscape, from the KeepSargent.Evans.299
View of the Apartments occupied by King Charles during his Imprisonment in the Castle, with the Window from which he attempted to escape—Objects emblematical of his ReignSargent.Evans.301
Exact Form and Appearance of the same Window, from which, with his own hand, the King had sawed through one of the Iron BarsSargent.Evans.302
Ground-Plan of Carisbrooke Castle, showing all the Buildings and OutworksHerman.Walmesley.304