Items matching beards (results page 1)

Frontispiece: Edward VII Taking the Oath Royal Children of English History (1904)

Edward (not yet King Edward) strikes a kingly pose with one hand on his hip, wearing attractive purple, with an ermine robe and a gold chain, as he prepares to try on the crown, which he thinks is ver [...]

Keywords: kings, people, beards, royalty, colour, robes, costumes, crowns

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-09-08

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Frontispiece: When He Comes He will Rule over the Whole World The Lost Boy (1913)

“At last, [Hillel] said: “It is better to hope and to wait patiently for Him than to reckon the day of His coming. For if the reckoning is wrong, and He does not come, then men despair, and no longer [...]

Keywords: religion, people, children, bare feet, people, beards, scholars, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: Jerusalem; Palestine

Added: 2007-05-16

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Frontispiece 3: Capt. E. J. Smith Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

Keywords: people, portraits, beards, uniforms, costumes, titanic, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-24

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Back cover Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900)

The back cover of this bound collection of Jugend magazine for 1900 shoes a bearded man resting his arms on a large closed book. Perhaps it’s Jugend and he just finished reading it. The red garland at [...]

Keywords: book covers, pictures of books, people, beards, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-23

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13.—Two Druids. Bas-relief found at Autun. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This carved likeness was found in an earth burial-mound, a barrow. “These remarkable monuments contain not only the bones and the ashes of the dead, but various articles of utility and ornament, domes [...]

Keywords: people, beards, astrology, druids, robes, greyscale

Places shown: Autun; Burgandy; France

Added: 2005-02-13

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15.—Group of Arch-Druid and Druids Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A group of bearded older men wearing robes sit in disputation or discussion. They are in a forest.

Keywords: people, beards, monks, robes, druids, trees, astrology, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-02-13

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29.—Arch-Druid in his full Judicial Costume. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A fanciful drawing of an Arch-Druid (archdruid) in his full costume, judicial presumably meaning that he is ready to judge over people. An old and stern-looking man with a long flowing beard wears a r [...]

Keywords: people, beards, bare feet, monks, robes, druids, spooky, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-08-29

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St. Simon Stylites, Hermit of the Pillar Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 35)

Saint Simon, partly bald but with a long flowing beard, kneels barefoot on the top of a pillar and holds up a cross. He is wearing sackcloth.

Keywords: people, crosses, religion, bare feet, clouds, pillars, beards, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-03-31

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1.—Title page: The Book of Urizen First Book of Urizen (1794)

The Book of URIZEN LAMBETH. Printed by Will. Blake 1794 A long-haired man, seemingly naked, squats on top of an open book, his beard covers all except his knees and one bare foot. His outstretched h [...]

Keywords: blake, occult, colour, people, nudity, beards

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-17

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Christofel Cololus [Christopher Columbus] The New World (1671)

Christopher Columbus, of Christofer, or Christofel Colonus as written here, was responsible for bringing many diseases to Turtle Island, including Catholicism and rampant individualism, corporate gree [...]

Keywords: people, portraits, beards, cartici, frames, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-01-21

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63.—Gaulish Costume. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The dresses of the inhabitants of Britain before the Roman invasion are not, like those of the people of ancient Egypt, and other countries advanced in the practice of the imitative arts, to be trace [...]

Keywords: statues, costumes, people, beards, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-20

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Portraits of Great Statesmen 1 Portraits and Principles of the World’s Great Men and Women (1897)

Portraits of:
Charles Sumner
James G. Blaine
Edward Everett
Henry L. Dawes
Benjamin Harrison
James A. Garfield
Grover Cleveland
George F. Edmunds
Abraham Lincoln
Nathaniel P. Banks

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, american presidents, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-17

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