Items matching bare feet

Plate XV.—Anatomy.

A naked man is shown, without his skin, so that the muscles can be seen, in order to teach anatomy. The muscles immediately under the common teguments on the anterior part of the body, are represeted [...]

Keywords: anatomy, diagrams, spooky, nudity, bare feet

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-23

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Anglo-Saxon Punishments

“Stocks were used, at an early period, as a means of punishing breakers of the law. The precise date when they were first emplyed in this country is not known, but we may infer from early mediaeval il [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, bare feet, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Taunting Persons in the Stocks.

“The “Cambridge Trinity College Psalter”—an illuminated manuscript—presents some curious illustrations of the manners of the earlier half of the twelth century. We give a reproduction of one of its q [...]

Keywords: punishments, people, bare feet, stocks

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Cherubs carrying books

Anatomically correct cherubs carrying books through the undergrowth.

Keywords: cherubs, books, nudity, bare feet, chapterheads

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2006-01-21

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Discourse into the Night

Two learned robed, bearded and barefoot gentlemen converse, books in their lap. The smoke-filled scene is lit by a single flame.

Keywords: people, bare feet, candles, scholars

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2006-01-21

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Cherubs with Handprints

A naughty cherub makes handprints on everything, including his naked companion

Keywords: cherubs, nudity, bare feet, chapterheads

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2006-01-21

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Typographia

Typographia stands with her robe and chain(??), holding a book out to a cherub with a press; another cherub sets type.

Keywords: cherubs, nudity, bare feet, books, printing

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2006-01-21

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Cherubs on a book

Two tiny cherubs on the spine of an a book. They face away from us.

Keywords: cherubs, books, nudity, bare feet, chapterheads, christmas

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2006-01-21

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6.—Urizen in the Womb-like Globe

Urizen floats naked in the darkness. Full-page illustration without text.

Keywords: occult, people, nudity, bare feet, beards, christmas, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-17

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3.—Chapter I of Blake’s Book of Urizen

Chap: I 1. Lo, a shadow of horror is risen In Eternity! Unknown, unprolific? Self-clos’d, all-repelling: what Demon Hath form’d this abominable void This soul-shudd’ring vacuum? – Some said “It is Uri [...]

Keywords: blake, occult, people, nudity, bare feet, colour, poetry

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-17

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King Henry II whipped by the Pope’s Order

The text reads “K. Hen. 2. whipt by the Popes Order pa. 88” “henry the Second our King, was much vexed by this Pope [Alexander III] for the death of Thomas Becket, whom the Pope made St. Thomas for op [...]

Keywords: bare feet, punishments, religion, people, royalty

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2005-02-27

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206b1: Carriage Pulled By Death.

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 in a carriage whose seat is a scallo [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, death, nudity, bare feet, transport, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-13

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