Chapter Heading woodcut featuring a flaming heart details |
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| Image title: | Chapter Heading woodcut featuring a flaming heart | |
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| Source: | Ray, John: “A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs” (1737) | |
| Place shown: | none | |
| Keywords: | decorations, hearts, chapterheads, greyscale | |
| Status: | public domain in the USA, out of copyright in Canada, hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes and no usage credit required | |
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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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| Filename: | 025-chapter-heading-heart-q85-1904x699.jpg | |
| Blog link: | http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Ray-Proverbs/pages/025-chapter-heading-heart//025-chapter-heading-heart-q75-500x184.jpg | |
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