| [Frontispiece.] Pont St. Bénézet over the Rhône at Avignon.Built between the years 1177 and 1185. National Gallery ofAustralia. | |
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| Railway Bridge at Albi in France | [8] |
| Pont Valentré at Cahors in France: the Fortified Gatesand Towers. Thirteenth Century. See also the [second picture]of this Bastille Bridge | [16] |
| The Alcántara at Toledo. Mainly the work of ArchbishopTenorio, 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 theFine Art Society | [48] |
| Old London Bridge. Begun by Peter Colechurch in 1176, andfinished 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 theOld Houses, and beyond the Bridge, on our left, the great OldChurch, famous for its fortifications | [72] |
| Tower Bridge, London. Collection of John Lane, Esq. | [80] |
| Famous Bridge at Espalion in France. Said to date from theEighth Century | [88] |
| Pont du Tarn at Albi in France. Said to date from about theyears 1035-40 | [92] |
| Pont de Vernay at Airvault, Deux-Sèvres. Famous bridgewith 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 ofR. Workman, Esq. | [152] |
| Roman Aqueduct at Segovia in Spain | [184] |
| Huge Defensive Bridge at Córdova in Spain. OriginallyRoman, 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 carriedout by his brother, Sir John Rennie. Opened to the public in1831. Collection of Charles Holme, Esq. | [220] |
| Three-Arched Bridge at Venice, over the Canal ofSt. Giobbe. Brick and stone. Renaissance. Collection ofJ. 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. Seealso the [other picture] of this Bastille Bridge | [264] |
| The Alcántara at Toledo. Showing the Moorish Gateway atthe 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 centuryit was rebuilt by Archbishop Tenorio | [288] |
| Ponte Nomentano over the Anio; a Mediæval War-Bridgein the Campagna | [296] |
| Laroque on the River Lot, near Cahors. A sort of inlandGibraltar; a part of the village is built on bridges thrown acrosschasms in the rocks | [300] |
| Pont Neuf at Paris. Built in 1604, but much altered since theRenaissance | [320] |
| The Tower Bridge, London. Albertina Collection, Vienna. Seealso 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 EighteenthCentury | [344] |
| On the Tarn at Millau in Southern France. Representingthe broken end of an old bridge with a mill built on it; behind isan arch of the new bridge | [352] |