Items matching decorations

Well Bucket Ornament, Coloured

A coloured version of the well-bucket typographic ornament that I made as an example.

Keywords: colour, ornaments, decorations

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Added: 2008-02-18

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Chapter end decoration: eagles

A decoration centered after the text of a chapter. I’ve made lots of sizes so you can use it on Web page. The woodcut was clearly fairly old and damaged, and it is not a clean print, but perhaps tha [...]

Keywords: decorations, eagles, ornaments

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Added: 2007-08-01

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Chapter Heading woodcut featuring a flaming heart

This decorative woodcut was used at the top of the first page of a chapter or section, as a decorative element. It features a heart on a pillar; there are flames bursting out of the heart, and the fla [...]

Keywords: decorations, hearts, chapterheads

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Added: 2008-06-23

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Chapter end decoration: cherubs

Two cherubs (naked, winged children) sit amongst ornate rococo foliage, apparently discoursing. This decoration was used to fill space at the end of a chapter, and to show that the text had ended.

Keywords: decorations, ornaments, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, wallpaper, backgrounds

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Added: 2007-08-14

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Chapter Heading Woodcut Featuring Soldiers on Horesback with Spears

A decorative woodcut from above the section entitled Proverbs and Proverbial Observsations cocerning Husbandry, Weather, and the Seasons of the Year. It is not related to the text. The engraving feat [...]

Keywords: decorations, battles, chapterheads, horses, weapons, people

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Added: 2008-02-28

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Chapter Heading Woodcut featuring Eagle

This decorative woodcut was at the start of the preface; the woodcuts do not appear to bear any relation to the text, but are purely decorative. This one features an eagle, the symbol of the Roman Emp [...]

Keywords: decorations, eagles, chapterheads

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Added: 2007-07-31

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Angel playing the harp, attended by deer

A hind, a stag, a pair of rabbits and two birds are listening to this winged angel playing the harp, in a decorative pice full of vine-leaves. The angel is naked except for a loin-cloth and is barefo [...]

Keywords: angels, animals, ornaments, decorations, bare feet, wallpaper, backgrounds, christmas, colour

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Added: 2008-09-14

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