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| Image title: | The Vigil of Arms |
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| Source: | Nye, Bill: “Bill Nye’s History of England” (1900) |
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| Keywords: | people, cartoons, humour, spooky, ghosts, occult, interiors, greyscale |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested |
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“The most peculiar condition required for entry into knighthood was the “vigil of arms,” which consisted in keeping a long silent watch in some gloomy spot—a haunted one preferred—over the arms he was about to assume. The illustration representing this subject is without doubt one of the best of the kind extant, and even in the present age of the gold-cure is suggestive of a night-errant of today.” (p. 102) Here we have a frightened young man, a would-be kinght, assailed by ghosts, ghouls and a goblin; in the background is a bat, and a worried-looking face on the moon. The knight is looking terrified. |
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| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/16/pages/102-The-Vigil-of-Arms/ |
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| Cartoonist: | W. M. Goodes |
| Scanner dpi: | 2400 |
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