Stonehenge, Amesbury, Wiltshire (postcard)

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Summary: 2 black and white postcards of Stonehenge, Amesbury, Wiltshire 1 - "Stonehenge As It Might have Been: the megalith as reconstructed by the architect Inigo Jones, who proposed that it was a Roman monument, comstructed on the Vitruvian ideal of four superimposed equilateral triangles." Published in 1655.The postcard shows an image of the original drawing. 2 - "John Aubrey surveys Stonehenge: The Ichonographie of Stonehenge as it remains this present year 1666". Aubrey infers that the central stones were heptagonal in arrangement. This an image of the original drawing by John Aubrey.


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