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Rosalind. In an Old Monastery Garden. The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

This painting of a young lady, Rosalind, in a (sketched) garden shows the young woman wearing brown dress, cloak and boots, and looking very much a product of 1914. She has red lips.

Keywords: people, women, gardens, art, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-08-17

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The Good Shepherd Bible Symbols (1908)

ernhard Plockhorst’s famous painting shows Jesus as a caucasian male (with a long straight nose), surrounded by sheep. He is barefoot, and carries a lamb, holding also a shepherd’s crook. He is protra [...]

Keywords: religion, portraits, people, sheep, art, colour

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2010-06-22

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TItle Page My Friends’ Birthdays (1885)

The title page from “My Friends’ Birthdays” includes a picture of a vase or urn with an artist’s easel, pallette and brushes, a Victorian border for a Victorian scrapbook!

Keywords: art, title pages, page images, colour, esaels, vases, paint, pallettes, borders, victoriana

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-08

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Ecce Ancilla Domini Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

This is that blessed Mary, pre-elect God’s Virgin. Gone is a great while, and she Dwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee, Unto God’s will she brought devout respect, Profound simplicity of intellect, And [...]

Keywords: religion, paintings, people, saints, mary, annunciation, biblical scenes, art, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-23

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115.—Rome—A fragment after Piranesi. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An engraving showing a fragment of a statue, or, more likely, a reproduction of a drawing by Piranesi of a Roman statue.

A short 1812 biography of Piranesi

Keywords: statuary, sketches, art, people, roman remains, shields, ruins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-09-11

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116.—Roman Victory. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Succeeding emperors left the Britons in the quiet advancement of their civilization, until Claudius (Fig. 118) was stirred up to the hazard of an invasion. In the sonorous prose of Milton—“He, who wai [...]

Keywords: symbols, art, writing, statuary, roman remains, shields, cartici, borders, frames, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-09-12

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Miniature painting of a portrait artist with easel Book of Hours, Ms. Library of Congress. Rosenwald ms. 10 (1533)

A Mediæval (OK, Medieval in America) miniature painting taken from a Latin book of hours. The artist is wearing a red gown and a blue hood and stole or scarf. He is painting a woman, holding his brush [...]

Keywords: colour, people, art, animals, windows, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-01

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Evangelist with lion Book of Hours, Ms. Library of Congress. Rosenwald ms. 10 (1533)

A bearded man, perhaps in his thirties or forties, sits holding a book in his lap; to his left is a writing stand with an open manuscript; he holds a quill pen to his eye. There is a lion behind him, [...]

Keywords: colour, people, art, animals, windows, writing, pictures of books, religion, scholars, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-29

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Miniature: Garden of Gethsemanu Book of Hours, Ms. Library of Congress. Rosenwald ms. 10 (1533)

The disciples of Jesus sleep while Jesus prays, “let this cup be taken from me,” although since they were asleep no-one actually heard his prayer. The disciples are depicted as caucasian men with bar [...]

Keywords: colour, people, art, religion, gardens, bare feet, beards, prayer, christmas

Places shown: Jerusalem; Israel

Added: 2006-09-29

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Jugend Magazine, January 1900, Front Cover Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900)

The front cover from Jugend Magazine from Issue Two, January 1900. It features a blindfolded woman barefoot, resting one foot on a wheel, holding a cornucopia from which roses are falling. She reaches [...]

Keywords: book covers, art, art nouveau, time, zodiac, astrology, people, bare feet, clocks, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-12

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In the Land of Counterpane A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A boy lies ill in bed in this vintage watercolour painting; he has wooden toy soldiers arranged on the bed-covers. The Land of Counterpane When I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillos at my head, [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, toys, games, sickness, beds, play, art, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-02-02

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Declaration of Independence The Table Book of Art (1880)

This, it turns out, is a very famous painting in America. This version is cropped to make a screen background: there is also a widescreen version which has the full painting as reproduced in the book. [...]

Keywords: art, politics, royalty, terrorism, people, interiors, americana, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; USA

Added: 2012-11-15

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