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The Adoration of the Maji. By F. R. Pickersgill, R.A. A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

The Adoration of the Magi, or Maji, or Wise Men, or th eThree Kings (the Gospels do not say that they were kings, nor that there were three of them) is a popular subject; here two of them are prostrat [...]

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Added: 2008-12-10

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Fairy Dance. A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

Fairy Dance. By W. E. Frost, R.A. From a book of poems by the Rev. T. J. Judkin. Seven women, all barefoot and several topless, are dancing on a beach, weaving in and around one another by a natural [...]

Keywords: people, dance, spirit, bare feet, beaches, nudity, greyscale

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Added: 2008-07-26

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Scotland. A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

From “An overland journey to the Great Eghibition of 1851” By Richard Doyle. Published for the Brothers Dalziel by Messrs. Chapman & Hall. “We gave Doyle a commission to do a Panorama of an Overland [...]

Keywords: people, musical instruments, sports, bare feet, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2006-01-08

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King Lear and Fool in a Storm. A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

“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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-28

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Lear Fantastically Dressed with Flowers A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

By Sir John Gilbert, R.A., P.R.W.S., By permission of Messrs. George Routledge & Sons. (That is, the caption said that in 1901 the Brothers Dalziel had permission to use the image) The drawing of King [...]

Keywords: beards, people, faces, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-08

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Their beds are made in swelling turf A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

A child, a girl in a long billowy dress perhaps, kneels in a graveyard in the winter snow, perhaps in moonlight. She holds a shovel, covering a grave perhaps. She is grieving. The engraving is signed [...]

Keywords: grief, graveyards, tombs, snow, people, mourning, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-02-13

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Cleopatra A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

A Pre-Rapaelite drawing showing Cleopatra with some round-breasted topless women, presumably slaves or attendants, standing behind her with musical instruments. Incense burns in the foreground, and a [...]

Keywords: people, women, slaves, slavery, music, musical instruments, greyscale

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Added: 2008-10-04

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Lady of Castle Windeck A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

“Messrs. D. Appleton, of New York, requested us to provide a set of illustrations to the Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. They wished for a large number by Birket Foster, who at that time was [...]

Keywords: poetry, knights, people, greyscale

Places shown: Windeck; Baden-Württemberg; Germany

Added: 2006-04-26

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Silent they stood A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

“Silent they stood, each gazing on the dust Of kindred;—on the well-beloved ones Whom they should never lie beside in slumber.” “The Exiles of Glen Oona.”—Robert Buchanan. [picture] By William Small. [...]

Keywords: people, death, music, musical instruments, dogs, gravestones, spooky, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-10-26

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Music.—A Man at the Spinet. A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

From “Good Words [magazine].” By J. M. Lawless. A man in eighteenth-century costume sits at the spinet (a sort of early piano) and plays from sheet music. Among our many truly gifted young artists who [...]

Keywords: music, musical instruments, spinets, people, person, keyboards, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-02-11

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Cain and Abel. A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

A naked man lies dead in the background, his genitals conveniently hidden by a cloth. In the foreground, a man wearing only an animal-skin scurries barefoot away through the rocks. The biblical scene [...]

Keywords: punishments, bare feet, people, rocks, nudity, biblical scenes, death, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-17

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Moses Views the Promised Land A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

“By Lord Leighton, P.R.A., from “Dalziel’s Bible Gallery.” By permission of Messrs. Herbert Virtue & Co. Ltd.” (p. 243) The Biblical text illustrated is: “48 And the LORD spoke unto Moses that same da [...]

Keywords: people, scholars, bare feet, beards, mountains, religion, greyscale

Places shown: Abarim; Moab; Israel

Added: 2006-10-02

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