Items matching calendars taken from Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

October

(page 1346)

A barefoot, bare-legged and bare-chested man sits astride a giant scorpion. He holds aloft a branch from a grapevine.

Keywords: people, insects, scorpions, bare feet, beards, calendars, months, october

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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September

(page 1146)A man carries a bushel of wheat over his shoulder, and in his hands a scythe and a scale. A poem follows:September.Next him September marched eke on foot;    Yet was he heavy laden with th [...]

Keywords: people, harvest, calendars, months, september

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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March

“—Sturdy March with brows full sternly bent   And armed strongly, rode upon a ram,   The same which over Hellespontus swam; Yet in his hand a spade he also hent,   And in a bag all sorts of weeds ysam [...]

Keywords: calendars, months, march, people, animals

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-14

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Vernal Equinox

Perhaps not a very clear illustration of an equinox, but still a pretty woodcut of the Sun’s rays reaching the Earth.

Keywords: astrology, stars, sun, calendars, diagrams

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-01

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December

(page 1543)An old tonsured man wearing a monk’s robe and a gown is supping lustily from a giant bowl of liquid. He rides a goat, representing the lasciviousness of the festivals at December.A poem un [...]

Keywords: people, bowls, winter, animals, goats, monks, calendars, months, december, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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Autumn

(page 1282)A bearded man of middle years, barefoot and wearing only a loin-cloth, carries on his head a basket overflowing with apples and other fruit. Under his right arm he carries vines with bunch [...]

Keywords: people, harvest, calendars

Places shown: none

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Summer

(page 817)A barefoot, bare-legged and barechested man, clad only in a flowing scarf draped over his left arm and around his loins, holds a bundle of wheat in his outstretched left hand and a sickle in [...]

Keywords: people, bare feet, nudity, sickles, summer, harvest, calendars

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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May

A poem beneath the picture reads as follows: MAY. Then came faire May, the fayrest mayd on ground,     Dekt all with dainties of her seasons pryde, And throwing flow’res out of her lap around:     Upo [...]

Keywords: cherubs, bare feet, people, calendars, months, may

Places shown: none

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June

(page 738)

A man bearded man strewn with garlands and leaves rides a crab. He faces backwards. he carries spear and shield, and on his lap a shovel. He wears sandals and a long robe.

Keywords: summer, people, beards, calendars, months, june

Places shown: none

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April

April is a youth with curly hair and carrying a garland. He wears a tunic and sandals, with a cape billowing out behind him in the wind, and he rides a bucking bull that is jumping up out of a puddle [...]

Keywords: months, calendars, people, animals, april

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-16

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Spring

Spring, the book informs us, commences on the 6th of March, and lasts ninety-three days. The woodcut shows a winged infant boy holding flowers. The following verse is printed beneath the engraving: “ [...]

Keywords: calendars, people, cherubs, spring

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-17

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January

(page 2; there is one of these for each month)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 rooves of a nearby far [...]

Keywords: snow, animals, dogs, people, winter, months, calendars, january

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-16

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