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Frontispiece: Burkard Keller of Yburg. Legends of the Black Forest (1890)

A ghostly woman glowing white floats in the air, her bare feet not touching the ground, as she reaches out to a knight, kneeling in awestruck adoration. In the background a statue of the same woman at [...]

Keywords: people, ghosts, spirit, spooky, owls, forests, knights, colour

Places shown: Baden; Germany

Added: 2009-03-24

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Frontispiece: She clipped a precious golden lock Goblin Market (1933)

Laura snips off a lock of her golden hair to give to the goblin fairy folk, so that she can buy something to eat and drink. But sweet-tooth Laura spoke in haste: “Good folk, I have no coin; To take w [...]

Keywords: goblins, people, trees, forests, colour, illustratoins for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-10

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Frontispiece Laws and History of the New Forest (1811)

At the edge of a clearing in the forest stands a tall tree; a knight’s sword, shield and stirrup hang from the tree, and two hunting dogs are tied to it. A richly dressed man stands talking to a wood- [...]

Keywords: forests, trees, people, weapons, water, animals, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: New Forest; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-07-13

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Map of the New Forest and Adjacent Country Laws and History of the New Forest (1811)

Map of the New Forest and surrounding area, published in 1811; it shows Christchurch Bay and the Southampton River to the South, Titchfield and Owselbury to the East, Christchurch and Cranborne to the [...]

Keywords: maps, colour, forests, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: New Forest; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-07-13

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Decorative initial letter B Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

An almost-naked young mang sits on a rock and plays a recorder or pipe in a forest; his dog sits next to him, and in the background a young woman approaches. There is a large letter “B” in the German [...]

Keywords: initials, letterb, people, bare feet, dogs, animals, forests, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-18

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Bucolic scene from a glade in a forest. Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A young man, topless and bare-legged, sits on a rock in a forest and dangles his feet as he plays a pipe or recorder. His dog is by his side. In the background, a young woman, wearing a dress, appro [...]

Keywords: people, forests, nudity, bare feet, dogs, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-18

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49.—Huts in a Cingalese Village. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Cingalese people are the natives of Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka. “Of the domestic buildings of the early Britons there are no remains, if we except some circular stone foundations, which may have [...]

Keywords: people, forests, buildings, trees, views, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Sri Lanka

Added: 2005-08-30

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55.—Welsh Pigsty. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Of the domestic buildings of the early Britons there are no remains, if we except some circular stone foundations, which may have been those of houses. It is concluded, perhaps somewhat too hastily, [...]

Keywords: forests, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Llandaff; Wales

Added: 2005-09-19

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56.—The Druid Grove. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A bearded and robed man sits in the shade of a giant tree, probably an oak tree; in the background a group of three robed figures surrounds a smaller tree.

Keywords: forests, druids, spirit, trees, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-05-22

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In a Gloomy Wood Inferno: The Vision of Hell (1870)

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growt [...]

Keywords: forests, spooky, people, trees, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-28

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In Needwood Forest The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

“. . . the Roman road from leicester to Chester skirted the Forest of Needwood, and was held by a station at Uttoxeter” (p. 177) In Needwood Forest is some of Britain’s most ancient woodland. It is ma [...]

Keywords: forests, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Needwood Forest; Tutbury; Staffordshire; England

Added: 2005-09-20

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228.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of February. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

February. “They called February Sprout-kele, by kele meaning the kele-wort, which we now call the cole-wort, the great pot-wort in time long past that our ancestors used; and the broth made therewith [...]

Keywords: feburary, months, forests, trees, people, bare feet, cartouches, borders, saxon england, calendars, fires, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-02-06

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