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decorations, hearts, chapterheads, greyscale

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Image title: Chapter Heading woodcut featuring a flaming heart
Source: Ray, John: “A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs” (1737)
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Keywords: decorations, hearts, chapterheads, greyscale
Status: out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested

Notes:

This decorative woodcut was used at the top of the first page of a chapter or section, as a decorative element. It features a heart on a pillar; there are flames bursting out of the heart, and the flames are surrounded by a halo of light.

It was very common for printers to reuse wood engravings like these for their books.

I also made a couple of deatils available as separate images: the flaming heart, standing on a pillar, and also the heart woodcut itself.

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