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1039x1285, 1386x1714, 162x200, 584x723, 779x964 | O Waken, Waken, Burd IsbelSome British Ballads (1919) “O it fell once upon a day Burd Isbel fell asleep, An’ up it starts the Billy Blind, An’ stood at her bed-feet. ‘O waken, waken, Burd Isbel, How can you sleep so soun’, Whan this is Bekie’ [...] Keywords: interiors, beds, people, furniture, colour Places shown: none Added: 2006-05-14 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1796x1302, 276x200, 898x651 | The baron’s Hall at Christmas.The People’s Gallery of Engravings (1844) We see the inside of a medieval banquet hall, probably (by the size of the windows) from the 16th Century or modified at that time. It is Christmas, and various people are enjoying the hospitality of [...] Keywords: christmas, xmas, interiors, people, windows, tables, halls, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2016-12-11 + S K L |
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1049x1025, 205x200, 2099x2050, 750x733 | Murder in the CastleLa Civilizacion 3 (1881) This engraving (i think) actually shows the discovery of the body of the Roman emperor Nero just after he had killed himself, but i am far from certain; the men’s swords are drawn. There are three men [...] Keywords: death, discovery, accusation, people, men, weapons, soliders, interiors, castles, pillars, throne rooms, greyscale Places shown: Rome; Italy Added: 2023-02-02 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1362x2750, 371x750, 681x1375, 99x200 | One Bay of the “Angel Choir,” Interior, Lincoln CathedralEnglish Cathedrals (1910) A view as if one were standing in the chancel between the stone Rood Screen and the small step leading up to the sanctuary with its alter, and looking to the side of the great building. The architectu [...] Keywords: decorated style, gothic architecture, transitional architecture, cathedrals, interiors, columns, windows, tracery, churches, chuch architecture, stonework, pillars, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2025-04-07 + S K L |
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1280x720, 1323x750, 1366x768, 1900x1080, 2560x1440, 353x200, 750x425 | Christmas MassModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898) Choirboys, an orchestra, a conductor who appears to be starting into space, an unintersested congregation, some of whom are kneeling at at the door. It looks as if perhaps we see a minstrel’s gallery, [...] Keywords: christmas, choirboys, boys, people, singing, music, religion, xmas, interiors, chapels, churches, musical instruments, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2023-12-10 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Interior of S. Sepulchre Church, Cambridge.A Short History of the English People (1902) Built c. 114 – 1130. Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge. Built by a Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, to whom the Abbot and Convent of Ramsey gave for that purpose, between 1114 and 1130, a buri [...] Keywords: churches, norman england, interiors, pillars, norman architecture, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England Added: 2011-07-26 + S K L R N |
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1045x713, 1394x951, 1858x1268, 293x200 | The late Philip Bailey in his study at the Rope Walk, NottinghamThe Leisure Hour (1904) An elderly gentleman with white hair and a white beard sits at a writing desk, pen in hand, gazing out of the window, lost in thought. “Seldom has a poet come as near to absolute greatness, as Bailey [...] Keywords: people, scholars, interiors, writing, greyscale Places shown: Nottingham; Nottinghamshire; England Added: 2006-05-13 + S K L R N |
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1568x1274, 246x200, 750x609 | Vitzlipuztli, God of the MexicansThe New World (1671) The image is captioned, in Latin, Viztlipuztli idolum Mexicanorum, which is, Viztlipuztli, idol of the Mexicans. The usual modern spelling appears to be Vitzlipuztli; he/it was worhipped as a god or w [...] Keywords: mythological creatures, people, religion, worship, native america, aztec, interiors, temples, shields, wings, bare feet, greyscale Places shown: Mexico Added: 2016-11-27 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x640, 1152x720, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, 2560x1600, 321x200, 700x437 | Declaration of IndependenceThe Table Book of Art (1880) This, it turns out, is a very famous painting in America. There is also a cropped version for use as a laptop of desktop computer background. Trumbell’s The Declaration of Independence On the 4th of J [...] Keywords: politics, royalty, terrorism, people, interiors, americana, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; USA Added: 2012-11-15 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Declaration of IndependenceThe Table Book of Art (1880) This, it turns out, is a very famous painting in America. This version is cropped to make a screen background: there is also a widescreen version which has the full painting as reproduced in the book. [...] Keywords: art, politics, royalty, terrorism, people, interiors, americana, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; USA Added: 2012-11-15 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 335.—The Great Chamber, Looking North.English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922) “It will be noticed that the ceiling is a reproduction of that in the ballroom at Knole (Fig. 294). The panelling is similar to that in the dining-room below, and all came out of the Quenby attics. It [...] Keywords: interiors, ceilings, manors, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Hungarton; Leicestershire; England Added: 2006-01-12 + S K L R N |
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154x200, 1882x2435, 580x750, 941x1218 | SchoolworkModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898) A girl wearing sensible lace-up shoes, a dress, hair in a bun, is seated at a wooden desk writing. There’s a bowl, perhaos biscuits or cookies, and a pile of papers. The image is in the style of a pen [...] Keywords: girls, people, students, learning, sitting, desks, schoolrooms, interiors, drawings, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2025-08-28 + S K L |
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140x200, 1837x2632, 523x750, 919x1316 | VII.—Merton College: The Library InteriorThe Charm of Oxford (1920) Merton is the oldest college in Oxford, founded in the 1270s, almost 750 years ago. This sketch gives us a glimpse inside the ancient library with its rows of books so inviting. Merton, as has been s [...] Keywords: interiors, libraries, arches, ceilings, colleges, pictures of books, books, greyscale Places shown: Merton College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England Added: 2013-06-30 + S K L R N |
Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 369.—The West End Of The Hall.English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922) Kildwick Hall is a Grade II* listed Jacobean country house, and the Hall is still (Nov. 2005) very much as pictured here. “Kildwick Hall lies in the same moorland district of Yorkshire that the Brontë [...] Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, interiors, ceilings, fireplaces, greyscale Places shown: Kildwick; Yorkshire; England Added: 2005-11-09 + S K L R N |
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1038x1489, 140x200, 584x838, 779x1117 | Chantry Chapel, WarwickOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) This beautiful engraving, printed in colour using multiple plates, shows the stone ceiling, a tiled floor, an arched entrance-way, a stained-glass window, a church-warden’s chest, a seat and a reading [...] Keywords: colour, chapels, interiors, churches, castles, windows, furniture Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England Added: 2010-10-30 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 155x200, 542x701, 722x934, 963x1245 | The Lady Rowena and the Golden CupAn Island Story (1920) Vortigern came and admired the castle [Thong Castle, near Lincoln] very much, although he was still rather angry with Hengist for having cheated him about the land. Towards the end of the feast, Rowen [...] Keywords: illustrations for children, feasts, royalty, bowls, people, costumes, anglo saxons, interiors, colour Places shown: Caistor; Lincolnshire; England Added: 2010-06-13 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 148x200, 1778x2400, 556x750, 889x1200 | Catherine de Medici in front of the magic mirror of her astrologer Cosimo RuggieriDas Buch für Alle [the book for everyone] (1890) Katharina von Medici vor dem Zauberspiegel ihres Astrologen Cosimo Ruggieri. This scene probably shows the astrologer and occultist Cosimp Ruggieri predicting that one of the sons of the queen regent [...] Keywords: occult, astrology, robes, spooky, people, robes, symbols, queens, royalty, wizards, kings, crowns, interiors, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2021-08-21 + S K L |
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