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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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Pictures from A Record Of Work – 1840 – 1890 by The Brothers Dalziel (London, 1901).

There were eight Dalziel brothers: William Dalziel (the eldest) whose art work was chiefly devoted to heraldic and occasional ornamental decoration for manuscript work, and was also a still-life painter; Robert Dalziel, a portrait painter; Alexander Dalziel a draughtsman, who died of consumption at the age of 23; George Dalziel, a pupil of Charles Gray (an engraver on wood); Edward Dalziel (1817 – 1905), who joined his younger brother George; John Dalziel, who was also an egraver, but who also died young; Thomas Dalziel (1823-1906), who was trained in copperplate engraving, but who later joined George and Edward in engraving on wood; The youngest, Davison Dalziel, “applied himself very successfully to commerce.”

The book is primarily by George and Edward Dalziel.

Cain and Abel.

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-17

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

Cleopatra

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, music, musical instruments

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-10-04

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

King Lear and Fool in a Storm.

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-28

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

Lady of Castle Windeck

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

Places shown: Windeck; Baden-Württemberg; Germany

Added: 2006-04-26

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

Fairy Dance.

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-26

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

Moses Views the Promised Land

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

Places shown: Abarim; Moab; Israel

Added: 2006-10-02

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

Scotland.

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

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2006-01-08

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

The Adoration of the Maji. By F. R. Pickersgill, R.A.

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 [...]

Keywords: christmas, people, religion

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-12-10

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

Going Home to Love in a Cottage

Going Home to Love in a Cottage

A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

A man leads a horse through the snow, at night. He holds on to his hat with one hand. The very spot where the Snorkers held a pic-nic. Oh! didn’t the ladies cry out in one voice, “I could live in suc [...]

Keywords: snow, christmas, people, animals, horses

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-12-11

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

Lear Fantastically Dressed with Flowers

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-08

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

The Old year and the New

The Old year and the New

A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

A jester crowns the new year as a young woman, and ushers out the old year, an old woman. This picture was obviously made for the end of 1866 and the start of 1867; it is dated 1867 in the text. It w [...]

Keywords: comics, drawings, people, new year, jesters, women, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-12-23

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

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