Chapter Heading Woodcut Featuring Soldiers on Horesback with Spears details |
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| Image title: | Chapter Heading Woodcut Featuring Soldiers on Horesback with Spears | |
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| Source: | Ray, John: “A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs” (1737) | |
| Place shown: | none | |
| Keywords: | decorations, battles, chapterheads, horses, weapons, people, 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 | |
Notes: |
A decorative woodcut from above the section entitled Proverbs and Proverbial Observsations cocerning Husbandry, Weather, and the Seasons of the Year. It is not related to the text. The engraving features a battle of warriors or soldiers with spears and shields. I suspect it is based on the carved side of an ancient Hellenistic (Greek) sarcophagus thought to depict ALexander the Great, but I am not certain. |
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| Dimensions: | 85 x 28mm (3.3 x 1.1 inches) | |
| Filename: | 033-chapter-head-chariot-battle-q75-500x173.jpg | |
| Blog link: | http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Ray-Proverbs/pages/033-chapter-head-chariot-battle//033-chapter-head-chariot-battle-q75-500x173.jpg | |
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