Items matching animals

Frontispiece: The Horses of San Marco, Looking North.

Bronze (or painted) statues of horses in strong sunlight. The printed colours or this painting do not reproduce well on the screen. There is a caption, “By permission of the Hon. John Collier.”

Keywords: statuary, pillars, animals, horses

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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A Blasphemer turned into a black dog

The caption in the woodcut mentions page 4, and there is indeed an account there of someone being turned into a black dog.

Keywords: religion, animals, dogs, death, spooky

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-04-27

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Carriage Pulled by Hounds.

This is a detail from plate 206, “Entrance of Henry of Lorraine, marquess of Moy, under the name of Pirandre” from the series The Combat at the Barrier, 1627.

Here is a carriage pulled by two dogs.

Keywords: carriages, transport, animals, dogs, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-13

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St. George and the Dragon

An engraving showing a statue of St. George slaying the dragon, by J. E. Boehm, A.R.A. St. George is here depicted as an almost-naked man riding a horse, a Roman centurian wearing only sandals and a h [...]

Keywords: statues, dragons, people, weapons, animals, horses

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-10-28

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Colossal Bull

By M. Cain. Grand Basin of the Trocadéro Palace.) “One of the chief features of the paris Exhibition of 1878 was the magnificent waterfall beneath the Trocadéro Palace and the grand basin at the foot [...]

Keywords: statues, bulls, animals

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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On the Edge of Sherwood Forest

From the Painting by John MacWhirter, R.A. John MacWhirter (1839 – 1911) was a Scottish painter. He showed great promise as a boy, and his work was shown at the Royal Academy of Art (entitling him to [...]

Keywords: colour, trees, views, forests, deer, animals

Places shown: Sherwood Forest; Nottinghamshire; England

Added: 2005-12-31

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Panting was his heart with fright

A dog is leaping in chase after a rabbit; another rabbit looks on nervously in the background. Bright the summer morn and early,     Sweetly sang the lark on high, Meadow grass with dew was pearly,   [...]

Keywords: animals, rabbits, dogs, poems

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-11-17

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Much Wenlock Abbey.

A man stands smoking his pipe in the ruined arch of this ancient abbey. Sheep gaze on are much away at the grass growing in the ruins of the cloisters. The man is presumably a shepherd, although it’ [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, people, animals, sheep, cloisters, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Much Wenlock; Shropshire; England

Added: 2007-01-17

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Going Home to Love in a Cottage

A man leads a horse through the snow, at night. He holds on to his hat with one hand. The very spot where the Snorkers held a pic-nic. Oh! didn’t the ladies cry out in one voice, “I could live in suc [...]

Keywords: snow, christmas, people, animals, horses

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-12-11

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Decorative initial letter “C” from 16th Century

This capital “C” is suitable for use as a drop cap (dropped capital) or a decorative initial; there’s also a small version for an avatar or icon. It is taken from a 16th century alphabet, and shows a [...]

Keywords: letterc, initials, birds, animals

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-11-10

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Decorative initial letter B

An almost-naked young mang sits on a rock and plays a recorder or pipe in a forest; his dog sits next to him, and in the background a young woman approaches. There is a large letter “B” in the German [...]

Keywords: initials, letterb, people, bare feet, dogs, animals, forests

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-18

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Gladiators, detail

A detail from Combat of Gladiators with Wild Animals

Keywords: people, animals, battles, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-03

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