Items matching portraits

Sir Thomas More Reflects [detail, widescreen version]

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

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King Henry VIII Stares Back

A detail from the Portrait of King Henry the 8th, tightly cropped so that it makes a screen background image at an 8:5 aspect ratio. There is also a full-head version.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, royalty, portraits

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-10

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Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Keywords: people, portraits

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Added: 2008-03-10

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Sir Thomas More

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

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Added: 2008-06-24

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Sir Thomas More Reflects [detail]

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

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Portrait of King Henry the Eighth

King Henry VIII (Henry 8th) taken from the engraving King Henry VIII and His Six Wives. I have also made two cropped versions available for use as wide-screen (8:5) screen desktop backgrounds (“comput [...]

Keywords: portraits, royalty

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-10

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Free Wallpaper: The head of Henry VIII

A detail from the Portrait of King Henry the 8th, scaled and cropped so that it makes a screen background image at an 8:5 aspect ratio. There is also a scarier version.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, royalty, portraits

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-10

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Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton, inventor of the apple.

Keywords: people, portraits

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Added: 2008-06-16

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Lord John Russell

By J. E. Boehm, A.R.A. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1880. This is a digital image made by scanning a print of an engraving that depicts a sculpture of a person. Lord John Russell (1792 – 1878) wa [...]

Keywords: people, sculpture, statues, portraits

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-13

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Boetius

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boetius (A.D. 480 – 524/5). It is not a good scan, unfortunately, even though I did it at 2400dpi as usual. Behold here how I make a great Statesman to walk along in his rank [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, beards

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-09

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Inigo Jones

Inigo Jones, along with Sir Christopher Wren, is surely one of the most famous of architects in England. “Inigo Jones was born on July 15, 1573, in the Parish of St. Bartholemew’s Smithfield, and was [...]

Keywords: portraits, architecture, people, architects

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-28

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Bust of William of Wykeham. 1394.

On a corbel in Muniment Room, Winchester College. The photograph shows a stone bust of William of Wykeham, wearing a bishop’s mitre and carrying a bishop’s crook. “Although William of Wykeham can in a [...]

Keywords: portraits, carving, statuary, people, religion, interiors

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2007-05-28

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