Items matching night scenes

King Lear and Fool in a Storm.

“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!

You cataracts, and hurricanoes, spout

Till you have drench’d our steeples.”

— Shakespeare

By Sir John Gilbert, R.A., P.R.W.S.

Keywords: people, beards, weather, night scenes, spooky, shakespeare

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-28

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Head of a Roman House Offering Sacrifice

A man, bare-headed and robed, pours from a two-handled jug into a lamp or jug. He is standing by a shrine. “Rome had no sacerdotal caste because the heads of each house were also the priests of the [...]

Keywords: religion, spirit, people, night scenes, death

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2007-03-15

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Edward Kelly, A Magician

Edward Kelly [sic for Kelley] in the Act of invoking the Spirit of a Deceased Person. Marked, Sibly Del, Ames Sculp., Dr. Dee’s Works. Part of the text is available as the second entry under necroman [...]

Keywords: astrology, occult, churches, ghosts, people, spooky, night scenes

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2003-03-10

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