La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (page 1/3)

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Drawn Picture Frame

This engraving of a picture fram would be fabulous for a picture of a loved one. Simply place the PNG file as a layer on top of a person’s photograph (in the free GIMP image editor for [...] [more...] [$]

Monseigneur Roche, Bishop of Gap

Here we have a portrait of a prelate, a French bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Gap; he lived from 1828 to 1880 and was made a bishop in 1879. [more...] [$]

Field Worker

This field worker is busy harvesting; he is a detail from a much larger image i plan to post separately. [more...] [$]

Vignette: crucifix with skull and prayer book or bible

A tall crucifix (a cross bearing a man being tortured to death) stands on a desk or table; it emanates light, dhining on a book propped open behind it, and on a skull. The skull may represent the miraculously incorrupt head of the saint, or could represent the hill, Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified, as that hill was said to have the shape of a skull. [...] [more...] [$]

Monseigneur Dabart, bishop of Périgueux and of Sarlat.

A portrait of Nicolas-Joseph Dabert, who was bishop of Périgueux in Dordogne in France from 1863 to 1901. He wrote a number of books, of which a history of Saint [...] [more...] [$]