Items matching flowers

Initial letter “t” as flower in a pot

An artistic and unusual decorative initial “t” from 1878: the letter T is on a flowering plant growing out of a square flower-pot decorated with a Chinese theme.

Keywords: initials, lettert, flowers, plants

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-29

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Title Page

The ornate title page from the 1916 Chatterbox annual. There are pictures of a girl with straw on her head, a group of children reading, or perhaps singing, to a lady I take to be their teacher; a boy [...]

Keywords: title pages, children, illustrations for children, leaves, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-08

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Ophelia.

(Hamlet.) A. Hughes, Pinxt. C. Cousin, Sculpt. Ophelia is perhaps Hamlet’s former lover. She sits by the river plucking flowers one by one and worrying them in her hands; shortly afterwards she drown [...]

Keywords: people, water, flowers, trees, forests, shakespeare

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-03-17

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Decorative initial letter “F” from 16th Century

This capital “F” is suitable for use as a drop cap (dropped capital) or a decorative initial; there’s also a small version for an avatar or icon. It is taken from a 16th century alphabet, and shows a [...]

Keywords: letterf, initials, birds, flowers

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-11-12

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Decorative initial letter E

A bee approaches a bunch of flowers tied with a ribbon in this large decorative capital “E”

The image appears to be unsigned

Keywords: initials, lettere, flowers, bees, insects

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-18

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Sweet Grass

“SWEET GRASS, Hierochloa borealis, R & S. Rare in the Eastern provinces and growing in damp places by streams and rivers. In the West, in all kinds of soil, extremely abundant and very difficult to er [...]

Keywords: colour, page images, flowers

Places shown: Canada

Added: 2006-08-05

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Back Cover

The weed shown here is Purslane or Pusley, also illustrated in Plate 18.

Keywords: page images, book covers, colour, flowers

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-14

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30.—Chicory, Cichorium Intybus, L.

Plate 30. CHICORY, Cichorium Intybus, L. Other English Names: Wild Chicory, Wild Succory. (Noxious: Dom.) Introduced. Perennial from a long deep rootstock. Stems 2 to 3 feet high, branched, hairy be [...]

Keywords: colour, page images, flowers

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-27

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Front Cover

The illustration is Lesser Burdock, which is also shown in Plate 27. The text reads, Farm Weeds, Department of Agriculture, Canada, 1906.

Keywords: flowers, page images, colour, book covers, pictures of books

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-14

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Blue Lettuce, Lactuca pulchella, DC.

“Other Enlish names: Showy Lettuce, Large-flowered Blue lettuce. Other Latin names: Mulgedium pulchellum, Nut.; Mulgedium acuminatum, DC.; Sonchus pulchellus, Pursh. Native. perennial, deep-rooted. St [...]

Keywords: colour, page images, flowers

Places shown: Canada

Added: 2006-08-30

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Plate 14.—Purple Cockle

“PURPLE COCKLE, Lychnis Githago, Lam. Other English name: Corn Cockle (used in England, where wheat is generally spoken of as “corn”). Other Latin name: Agrostemma Githago, L. (Noxious: Dom., N.W.) In [...]

Keywords: colour, page images, flowers

Places shown: Canada

Added: 2006-01-14

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The Great Court, Trinity College

“The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, though inheriting much from the earlier college—King’s Hall—which was set up by Edward II and his son Edward III, owes almost everything to King Henry V [...]

Keywords: colour, towers, flowers, colleges

Places shown: Trinity College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-21

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