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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 The Everyday Book and Table Book, by William Hone, 1826, London.

The illustrations are probably by George Cruikshank.

There is also an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for William Hone and another for George Cruikshank.

The book has been scanned entirely and low-resolution page images of the full book are online hosted by Google.

October

October

Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 1346)

A barefoot, bare-legged and bare-chested man sits astride a giant scorpion. He holds aloft a branch from a grapevine.

Keywords: people, insects, scorpions, bare feet, beards, calendars, months, october

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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

September

September

Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 1146)A man carries a bushel of wheat over his shoulder, and in his hands a scythe and a scale. A poem follows:September.Next him September marched eke on foot;    Yet was he heavy laden with th [...]

Keywords: people, harvest, calendars, months, september

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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

St. Cecilia

St. Cecilia

Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A crowned woman with long hair, robes and sandals wears a pendant and sits clutching her chest. A carved music seat in the shape of an eagle holds a score (sheet music). A winged angel plays a portab [...]

Keywords: angels, people, music, wings, bare feet, cherubs, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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

March

March

Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

“—Sturdy March with brows full sternly bent   And armed strongly, rode upon a ram,   The same which over Hellespontus swam; Yet in his hand a spade he also hent,   And in a bag all sorts of weeds ysam [...]

Keywords: calendars, months, march, people, animals

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-14

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

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

September 8 is the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin; that is, the supposed birthday of the mother of Jesus. She is shown wearing a crown, with a starburst of light emenating from her head, and floating [...]

Keywords: mythologial figures, people, crowns, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-14

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

Ancient Representation of the Nativity

Ancient Representation of the Nativity

Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A picture for Christmas, taken from the entry for December 24th. “This introduction of the ox and the ass warming the infant in the crib with their breath, is a fanciful construction by catholic write [...]

Keywords: christmas, religion, astrology, animals, peoplechristmas

Places shown: Bethlehem; Judea; Palestine

Added: 2006-01-09

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

Francis Grose, Esq. F.S.A. etc.

Francis Grose, Esq. F.S.A. etc.

Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

Francis Grose was a well-known historian and lexicographer. There are some scanned images from his Antiquities and also his 1811 dictionary of slang.

Keywords: people

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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

December

December

Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 1543)An old tonsured man wearing a monk’s robe and a gown is supping lustily from a giant bowl of liquid. He rides a goat, representing the lasciviousness of the festivals at December.A poem un [...]

Keywords: people, bowls, winter, animals, goats, monks, calendars, months, december, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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

Aquarius, or, the Water Bearer.

Aquarius, or, the Water Bearer.

Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

“The sun enters Aquarius on this day [21st January], though he does not enter it in the visible zodiac until the 18th of February. Ganymede, who succeeded Hebe as cup-bearer to Jove, is fabled to have [...]

Keywords: bare feet, people, beards, water, zodiac, astrology, january, february, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-14

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

Autumn

Autumn

Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 1282)A bearded man of middle years, barefoot and wearing only a loin-cloth, carries on his head a basket overflowing with apples and other fruit. Under his right arm he carries vines with bunch [...]

Keywords: people, harvest, calendars

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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

Summer

Summer

Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 817)A barefoot, bare-legged and barechested man, clad only in a flowing scarf draped over his left arm and around his loins, holds a bundle of wheat in his outstretched left hand and a sickle in [...]

Keywords: people, bare feet, nudity, sickles, summer, harvest, calendars

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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

Winter

Winter

Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

“WINTER. Hoary, and dim, and bare, and shivering Like a poor almsman comes the aged Year, With kind “God save you all, good gentlefolks!” Heap on fresh fuel, make a blazing fire, Bring out the cup of [...]

Keywords: people

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-23

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