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animals: items depicting or describing creatures, whether wild or tame. The animals must be clearly depicted but need not be the main focus of an image or text.

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Knight and Hermit The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

A knight in armour carrying a shield is on foot, leading his horse. He stands by a tree in front of a church or monastery door. A bearded monk beckons him in, pointing towards the open door. In a nic [...]

Keywords: castles, trees, hills, towers, knights, animals, horses, monks, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-02-20

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Frontispiece: The Horses of San Marco, Looking North. Venice (1907)

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, colour

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Title Page Image (detail) Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

A knight in armour [US: armor] rides a horse. He carries a lance, wears a sword, and fights a dragon; presumably this is St. George, patron saint of England. In the background is a castle or tower on [...]

Keywords: knights, horses, animals, people, dragons, battles, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-08

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Frontispiece: View Near Selborne The Natural History of Selborne (1879)

View looking, I imagine, towards the distant Church in the village of Selborne. There are deer in the foreground, under the shade of a large tree.

Keywords: views, animals, deer, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Selborne; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-11-08

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

View of Selborne, Detail for use as Desktop Wallpaper The Natural History of Selborne (1879)

A detail taken from the Frontispiece showing the deer under the tree, with ducks swimming on a pond in the background.

Keywords: views, animals, deer, ducks, wallpaper, backgrounds, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Selborne; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-11-08

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Fox and Goose Decoateive Element The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A decorative motif, or page element, from the imprint page, shpwing a fox and a goose (or a duck maybe) reading a book.

Keywords: ornaments, animals, birds, books, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-01-27

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Frontispiece Laws and History of the New Forest (1811)

At the edge of a clearing in the forest stands a tall tree; a knight’s sword, shield and stirrup hang from the tree, and two hunting dogs are tied to it. A richly dressed man stands talking to a wood- [...]

Keywords: forests, trees, people, weapons, water, animals, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: New Forest; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-07-13

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Bona Dea - The Earth Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(Frontispiece) Earth is represented as a woman with twelve stars forming a halo around the crown on her head, and a lion beside her. She is crowned with the stars! She is depicted inside a picture fra [...]

Keywords: people, animals, lions, zodiac, symbols, aries, taurus, gemini, cancer, leo, virgo, libra, scorpio, sagittarius, aquarius, pisces, crowns, stars, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-03-18

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

January Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A mean wearing warm boots, coat and hat walks through the snow, blowing on his hands to warm them, and is accompanied by a dog. The roofs of a nearby farm and house are covered in snow. In the sky is [...]

Keywords: snow, animals, dogs, people, winter, months, calendars, january, aquarius, zodiac, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-03-18

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

5.—Stonehenge. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The present arrangement of the ruin [of Stonehenge] is shown in Figs. 5 and 6.” (p. 3)

Keywords: ruins, megaliths, temples, people, animals, sheep, druids, backgrounds, wallpaper, stone circles, greyscale

Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-02-02

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

The black kitten with a ball of twine Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

The kitten has a ball of wool or a ball of string (“twine” in the text might be either, except that later it’s referred to as “worsted” and is thus wool.) But the black kitten had been finished with e [...]

Keywords: cats, animals, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-19

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Skull and one side of mandible of Musk Rat. American Animals (1902)

N nasal.     F frontal.     P parietal.     O occipital.     Z zygomatic arch.     B audital bulla.     Mx Maxillary.     PMx premaxillary.     I incisors.     M molars.     CP coronoid process.     C [...]

Keywords: diagrams, animals, skulls, death, rodents, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-13

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

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