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people: an image depicting or containing humans, whether individual or groups, and whether foreground or background.

Synonyms: crowds, pedestrians, onlookers, spectaters

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Anglo-Saxon Punishments

Anglo-Saxon Punishments

Bygone Punishments (1931)

“Stocks were used, at an early period, as a means of punishing breakers of the law. The precise date when they were first emplyed in this country is not known, but we may infer from early mediaeval il [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, bare feet, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required

Taunting Persons in the Stocks.

Taunting Persons in the Stocks.

Bygone Punishments (1931)

“The “Cambridge Trinity College Psalter”—an illuminated manuscript—presents some curious illustrations of the manners of the earlier half of the twelth century. We give a reproduction of one of its q [...]

Keywords: punishments, people, bare feet, stocks

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

Historic Byways and Highways of Old England (1900)

This image is from the chapter “Chaucer and the Mediæval Inn.’ and bears the additional caption “From the Harleian MS. 4866, fol. 91.” The portrait of Chaucer, which the affection of his disciple, Tho [...]

Keywords: people, beards, monks

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-17

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Museum of Antiquities

Museum of Antiquities

Antwerpia

Portal of the Castle. Het Steen. – Museum van Oudheden – Poort van den Burcht. Het Steen. – Musée d’Antiquitiés – Porte du Bourg. Het Steen. – Altertumsmuseum – Tor der Burg. Het Steen. – Museum of An [...]

Keywords: castles, streets, people, cobbles

Places shown: Antwerp; Belgium

Added: 2004-08-01

Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required

Museum of Antiquities

Museum of Antiquities

Antwerpia

The Museum of Antiquities - the South Side

Het Steen. – Museum van Oudheden – Zuidzijde.

Keywords: castles, streets, people, water, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Antwerp; Belgium

Added: 2004-02-22

Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required

Sir Thomas More Reflects [detail, widescreen version]

Sir Thomas More Reflects [detail, widescreen version]

The National and Domestic History of England Vol 2 (1878)

A detail from the Portrait of Sir Thomas More suitable for use as a computer desktop background (“wallpaper”). This one is for screens in the 8:5 wide-screen aspect ratio; there is also a widescreen ( [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-24

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

The National and Domestic History of England Vol 2 (1878)

Anne of Cleves

Jane Seymour. Henry VIII. Catherine Howard.

Catherine Parr. Anne Boleyn.

Catherine of Aragon.

Keywords: people, portraits

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-10

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Sir Thomas More

Sir Thomas More

The National and Domestic History of England Vol 2 (1878)

A beautiful engraving showing Sir Thomas More in his prison cell; the gaoler [jailer] approaches, carring a heavy bundle of keys. Sir Thomas More (also Saint Thomas More) was executed by beheading whe [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, prisons, punishments

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-24

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Sir Thomas More Reflects [detail]

Sir Thomas More Reflects [detail]

The National and Domestic History of England Vol 2 (1878)

A detail from the Portrait of Sir Thomas More suitable for use as a computer desktop background (“wallpaper”). This one is for screens in the 4:3 aspect ratio; there is also a widescreen (8:5) version [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-24

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Builders at Work.

Builders at Work.

The National and Domestic History of England Vol 2 (1878)

The view of builders at work, taken from a fifteenth century manuscript, sufficiently explains some of the mechanical appliances then in use. (p. 174) We see builders using a winch and pulley to raise [...]

Keywords: people, construction

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-10

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Carriage of the Fifteenth Century.

Carriage of the Fifteenth Century.

The National and Domestic History of England Vol 2 (1878)

A woodcut based on a picture in a book from the 15th century. A cart or carriage is pulled by two horses. A man with a hat rides one of the horses and brandishes a whip; the horses are blinkered and [...]

Keywords: carriages, costumes, people, horses

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-06

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton

The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878)

Sir Isaac Newton, inventor of the apple.

Keywords: people, portraits

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-16

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

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