Items matching portraits (results page 1)

Frontispiece: Francis Peck, A.M. Desiderata (1779)

The engraving was taken from life and shows Francis Peck standing, holding some of his own books, and wearing perhaps an academic gown. The inscription says (in Latin) that he was born on the 4th May [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, frontispieces, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-03

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Frontispiece: The Right Hon. Lord Penzance. National Portrait Gallery, The (1888)

A colour portrait of Mr. James Plaisted Wilde, the fourth son of Edward Archer Wilde, Esq., born in 1816. He became Judge of the Court of Probate and Judge Ordinary of the Divorce Court in 1863; he wa [...]

Keywords: portraits, colour, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-07-28

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Frontispiece - Portrait of Goethe with his signature Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A portrait of the writer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe).

Note: German copyright today is 90 years after death, but in 1882 it was shorter, and I do not know if this image is out of copyright.

Keywords: portraits, greyscale

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Added: 2010-01-30

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Frontispiece: Daniel François Esprit Auber Famous Composers and their Music (1901)

From an engraving by G. Deblois, 1867. Auber was a French composer from Paris, born in 1782 and died in May 1871. He wrote a series of comic oeras with Scribe and Auber, including “Leicester” (based o [...]

Keywords: portraits, musicians, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-11-14

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The Good Shepherd Bible Symbols (1908)

ernhard Plockhorst’s famous painting shows Jesus as a caucasian male (with a long straight nose), surrounded by sheep. He is barefoot, and carries a lamb, holding also a shepherd’s crook. He is protra [...]

Keywords: religion, portraits, people, sheep, art, colour

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2010-06-22

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Inigo Jones The Lives of British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)

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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-28

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Brevet Second Liutenant U. S. Grant at the Age of 21 Years Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (1885)

Keywords: portraits, people, greyscale

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Added: 2008-01-07

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Title Page Detail: Francis Quarles Emblems Divine and Moral (1866)

A supposed portrait of the author, Francis Quarles, taken from the title page. He is shown with a goatee, and holding a book.

Keywords: portraits, people, greyscale

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Added: 2007-09-16

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Frontispiece 3: Capt. E. J. Smith Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

Keywords: people, portraits, beards, uniforms, costumes, titanic, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-24

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Bust of William of Wykeham. 1394. The Lives of British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)

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, greyscale

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2007-05-28

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Christofel Cololus [Christopher Columbus] The New World (1671)

Christopher Columbus, of Christofer, or Christofel Colonus as written here, was responsible for bringing many diseases to Turtle Island, including Catholicism and rampant individualism, corporate gree [...]

Keywords: people, portraits, beards, cartici, frames, greyscale

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Added: 2013-01-21

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Portraits of Great Statesmen 1 Portraits and Principles of the World’s Great Men and Women (1897)

Portraits of:
Charles Sumner
James G. Blaine
Edward Everett
Henry L. Dawes
Benjamin Harrison
James A. Garfield
Grover Cleveland
George F. Edmunds
Abraham Lincoln
Nathaniel P. Banks

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, american presidents, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-17

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