Carisbrooke Castle
“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.
| ARTISTS. | ENGRAVERS. | PAGE. | |
| Steel Plate.—View of the Castle from the North, showing the Keep, and Gate, and Outworks | Sargent. | Radcliffe. | |
| Entrance to the Keep by an ascent of seventy-two stone steps | Sargent. | 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 Tower | Sargent. | Evans. | 285 |
| Ancient Gate in the Castle, viewed from the Interior, leading to the steps | Sargent. | Evans. | 287 |
| Part of the Keep, known as the Flag-staff Tower, with the Battlement | Sargent. | 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 old | Sargent. | Evans. | 293 |
| The Governor’s House, with part of the Barracks, erected by Queen Elizabeth | Sargent. | Evans. | 294 |
| The Great Gate, with Round Prison Towers, Machicolations, and Queen Elizabeth’s Gate in the foreground. View taken from the road | Sargent. | Evans. | 296 |
| The Garrison Well, showing the Great Windlass-Wheel, &c.; with the Interior of the Building as it now appears | Sargent. | Evans. | 297 |
| Sign-Manual of King Charles I., from the Original MS. British Museum | Herman. | Walmesley. | 298 |
| “Queen Elizabeth’s Tower,” with the Outer Gate and Landscape, from the Keep | Sargent. | 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 Reign | Sargent. | 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 Bars | Sargent. | Evans. | 302 |
| Ground-Plan of Carisbrooke Castle, showing all the Buildings and Outworks | Herman. | Walmesley. | 304 |