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Religious Orders The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

A note on page 90 reads: The names of the orders delineated in the annexed plate, follow in the same succession in which the figures stand; beginning with the nun on the left, and reckoning towards th [...]

Keywords: monks, cathedrals, churches, interiors, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-02-20

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Frontispiece: When He Comes He will Rule over the Whole World The Lost Boy (1913)

“At last, [Hillel] said: “It is better to hope and to wait patiently for Him than to reckon the day of His coming. For if the reckoning is wrong, and He does not come, then men despair, and no longer [...]

Keywords: religion, people, children, bare feet, people, beards, scholars, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: Jerusalem; Palestine

Added: 2007-05-16

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Aunt Silvia in her Domain Look at the Bright Side (1883)

A small girl plays with a toy horse, dolls, a doll-house and a sheep on wheels; she crouches on the floor. Behind her a boy holds a stick. An older girl talks to the servant, who is dark-skinned, and [...]

Keywords: people, children, women, slavery, slaves, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-18

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Sitting in the pew The Old Peabody Pew (1907)

This detail from the front cover of the book shows five people sitting in a row during a church service. They are wearing old-fashioned clothing. A floral border of mistletoe surrounds the image.

Keywords: people, churches, religion, interiors, costumes, christmas, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-01-06

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Frontispiece 2: Grand Dining Saloon—S.S. Titanic. Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

A photograph of the interior of the original Titanic itself; the dining room.

Keywords: interiors, titanic, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-24

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Frontispiece: Too Old for a Stocking Chatterbox Annual (1916)

The frontispiece to the Chatterbox 1916 Annual shows a boy sitting in bead, wearing striped pyjamas, looking at another younger boy in his dressing-gown and slippers who has entered the bedroom carryi [...]

Keywords: christmas, children, people, illustrations for children, santa claus, interiors, bedrooms, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-09

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Frontispiece: The Kirk collection Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character (1911)

The Kirk Collection, From a water-colour drawing by Henry W. Kerr, A.R.S.A., R.S.W. An elder of the church leans over the side ot a pew with a wooden “ladle” for the church collection of money; a man [...]

Keywords: people, interiors, costumes, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2009-02-07

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Bust of William of Wykeham. 1394. The Lives of British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)

On a corbel in Muniment Room, Winchester College. The photograph shows a stone bust of William of Wykeham, wearing a bishop’s mitre and carrying a bishop’s crook. “Although William of Wykeham can in a [...]

Keywords: portraits, carving, statuary, people, religion, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2007-05-28

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To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him. Works of Jane Austen (1906)

Mrs. John Dashwood did not at all approve of what her husband intended to do for his sisters. To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the [...]

Keywords: people, children, interiors, fireplaces, jane austen, dogs, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-23

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Page 3. The Sunday Wood Out to Old Aunt Mary’s (1904)

The picture shows two boys carring small logs suitable for use in the woodstove in the background; the nearer boy is barefoot and the farther one (whose feet are not in the picture) wears a yellow hat [...]

Keywords: colour, people, bare feet, people, children, interiors, page images, illustrations for children

Places shown: USA

Added: 2006-01-16

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In winter I get up at night / And dress by yellow candle-light. A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

In this illustration a small child, probably a girl, stands barefoot by a bed illuminated by the yellow glow of a candle; she is in the process of getting dressed in the dark, by the light of the cand [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, children, poetry, bare feet, people, interiors, beds, bedrooms, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-03-08

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Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent). Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century (1929)

The lord and lady are dining on the daïs, the retainers grouped round the hearth. Notice the dog and the jester. From a model of the Great Hall at Penshurst. Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, New York [...]

Keywords: interiors, windows, halls, manors, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-08

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