Items matching interiors (results page 6)

The Conquest 1: Perhaps a kiss?A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1885)

Yes—and then—Ye, whose clay-cold heads and lukewarm hearts can argue down or mask your passions, tell me, what trespass is this that man should have them? or how his spirit stands answerable to the F [...]

Keywords: people, romance, backgrounds, wallpaper, staircases, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-04

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The Conquest 2: Walking down the stairsA Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1885)

If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece, must the whole web be rent in drawing them out? Whip me such stories, great Governor of N [...]

Keywords: people, romans, staircases, interiors, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-04

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Plate XXII. Ely Cathedral.The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

Ely Cathedral once stood on an island in the marshes; you can still see it for miles around in any direction. It’s old, very old, and in the days before electric light even the great octagonal tower m [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, interiors, people, colour

Places shown: Ely; Norfolk; England

Added: 2005-07-16

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Tortured with feet to the firePeter Parley’s Annual (1856)

[...] the first stranger reappeared, and beckoning with his finger, the party passed through the door to a little vestibule, the further end of which was closed by a heavy dark-red curtain; upon this [...]

Keywords: torture, stocks, people, men, prisons, interiors, medieval, bare feet, punishments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-07-04

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Staircase at Claverton, SomersetshireOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

(From Richardson’s ‘Elizabethan Architecture.’) This ornate portico leads to a hallway with a wide staircase climbing upward; there’s a carved animal, perhaps, on the newel post at the foot of the sta [...]

Keywords: staircases, steps, interiors, elizabethan architecture, entrances, doorways, arches, colums, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Claverton; Somerset; England

Added: 2018-06-06

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Hall at Ockwell’s, Berkshire.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Coloured in the original book.“The old manor-house of Ockwells is situated about one mile westward from bray, in Berkshire. It is one of those mansions built chiefly of timber framework, of which man [...]

Keywords: windows, interiors, colour, paneling, people, animals, furniture

Places shown: Bray; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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1731.—Gray’s Inn Hall.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

o Gray’s Inn Hall (Fig. 1731) is superior to that of Lincoln’s Inn or the Inner temple, and little inferior to the Middle Temple Hall. Its chief architectural attractions are its timber roof, carved [...]

Keywords: interiors, halls, windows, ceilings, rafters, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-08-22

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Into the cellar, into the dungeon!Der Rattenfänger von Hameln: Eine Aventiure (1890)

Lorenz here rushed down the steps, hitting every other one with his sword to scare away the ghosts, but it looks like they were not ghosts but rats. Here, he stands with a spear pointed at the rats hi [...]

Keywords: interiors, men, women, people, weapons, spears, arches, steps, rats, fear, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2026-04-08

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The Catacombs at PalermoSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

At the end of a long dark corridor, lined with coffins, chests, skulls, and the standing dead, we see an archway, and, through the arch, an old man, a monk, standing in a pool of light. This is a very [...]

Keywords: catacombs, death, interiors, tombs, corridors, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Palermo; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2009-10-24

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Cloisters in Santa Scholastica, SubiacoVenice (1907)

One of the three cloisters in this Benedictine monastery; it was built by Abbot Lando in 1235, and is decorated on the vault with mosaic work by the Cosmati. See page 36 and interleaf, page 82. Page [...]

Keywords: cloisters, interiors, sunlight, people, windows, pillars, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Subiaco; San Lorenzo; Rome; Italy

Added: 2014-08-10

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Old Chained BibleMemorials of Hampshire. (1906)

The Knight Hospitaller’s Tomb and Old Chained Bible at North Baddesley Church. The bible dates from 1620 and was donated to the church in 1702. The tomb is now in the chancel of the church. (From a [...]

Keywords: books, pictures of books, gravestones, tombs, interiors, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: North Baddesley; Hampshire; England

Added: 2003-09-17

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2153.—Billiards (From “School of Recreation,” 1710)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“We perceive from the engraving of the Billiards of the seventtenth century (Fig. 2153), that the game was altogether different from what it is now. There were two instead of three balls, and a pair o [...]

Keywords: people, games, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-18

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The ogre pulled the children out from under the bedEl Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

Seven tiny children—or rather, seven children in an oversized room—no taller than the ankles of the ogre bending over to pick them up. The children are praying, supplication, kneeling (one barefoot) b [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, fear, horror, steps, buildings, houses, forests, tom thumb, litle people, perrault, bedrooms, interiors, ogres, giants, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-10-27

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2175.—Chancel of St. Giles, Cripplegate.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This is a picture of the inside of the church now called St. Giles-without-Cripplegate (‘without’ being an old word meaning ‘outside’ or ‘beyond’). The modern church was largely rebuilt after being ba [...]

Keywords: churches, interiors, pulpits, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2016-01-23

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Burning the scrollsFabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

The four men in this picture are engaged in burning a large scroll, a Roman decree banning Christianity. They are clean-shaven and short-haired, wear the Roman toga and have bare feet. One thrusts the [...]

Keywords: people, fires, burning, sedition, bare feet, soldiers, interiors, book burning, roman costumes, togas, men, roman architcture, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-02-24

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Don Quixote in his StudyMagazine of Art Illustrated Vol 6 (1883)

From Doré’s Illustrations to “Don Quixote,” published by Messrs. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., We can do no more than play at swords with him (in our frontispiece) in his study chair. His eyes are f [...]

Keywords: fantasy, people, men, interiors, mythical creatures, dreams, reading, books, swords, don quixote, imagination, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2026-01-08

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The Prince With the Golden Hand (hand-coloured version)Slavonic Fairy Tales (1896)

As the prince gazed upon the splendid building the princess leaned out of one of the windows, and seeing him light shone from her sparkling eyes, her lovely hair floated in the wind, and the scent [...]

Keywords: colour, romance, people, royalty, illustrations for children, borders, interiors, castles, fantasy

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-01-11

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The Prince With the Golden HandSlavonic Fairy Tales (1896)

A black-and-white version of The Prince With the Golden Hand; my copy of this picture from a fairy-tale was hand-cloured, presumably by some previous owner of the book. See that image page for a short [...]

Keywords: people, royalty, illustrations for children, borders, interiors, castles, fantasy, romance, staircases, steps, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-01-11

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King’s College Chapel, Cambridge.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Sixteenth-Century chapel at King’s College in Cambridge University is famous not only for its music but also for its fabulous architecture. This 1845 engraving shows not only the amazing vaulted s [...]

Keywords: colour, interiors, chapels, architecture, windows, columns, religion, valuting, ceilings

Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2014-01-31

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Chapel of St. John’s College, CambridgeOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The chapel is one of the original structures of St. John’s College, the foundation-charter of which is dated April 9, 1511; it forms a part of the east court, or first court, which was completed in 15 [...]

Keywords: interiors, chapels, churches, christianity, windows, colour

Places shown: St. John’s College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2025-12-16

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