Items matching romance (results page 1)

End Paper: the young mad read to her from a small book. The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

The end-papers (inside the covers) are printed with an untitled design signed by the author. The picture shows a mediaeval scene: a young lady on an ornate seat in front of a log fire; behind her is a [...]

Keywords: romance, love, people, fire, fireplaces, books, reading, colour

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Added: 2011-08-17

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Frontispiece: Beata Beatrix Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

Beata Beatrix . . . Tate Gallery From a painting by Rossetti. Because mine eyes can never have their fill Of looking at my lady’s lovely face,         I will so fix my gaze That I may become bless’d, [...]

Keywords: people, romance, poetry, colour

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Added: 2008-07-25

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Border of Roses and Thorns Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

A decorative oval border or roses and thorns that was around a chapter title in this book.

Keywords: borders, frames, romance, greyscale

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Added: 2012-06-23

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The Day Dream Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

The Day-Dream. – Ionides Collection South Kensington. From a painting by Rossetti. Within the branching shade of Reverie Dreams even may spring till autumn; yet none be     Like woman’s budding day-dr [...]

Keywords: people, romance, poetry, colour

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Added: 2008-07-25

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Decorative Initial Letter I Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A German Fraktur letter “I” (or J) used as an initial drop cap, with a winged putti or cherub holding a rose and delivering a love-letter sealed with a heart-shaped kiss to a young woman or gitl sitti [...]

Keywords: initials, letteri, letterj, cherubs, romance, people, greyscale

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Added: 2010-08-07

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Cherub delivering a love-letter Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A cherub carries a rose and a love-letter to a seated girl in this romantic engraving; it illustrated a poem, and was originally a decorative initial letter I; in this version I removed the letter and [...]

Keywords: cherubs, people, girls, romance, dresses, colour

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Added: 2010-08-07

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Decorated (Historiated) initial letter B by Valerio Spada Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Initial letter “B” from a historiated alphabet by Valerio Spada. Seventeeth century Italian people: A couple sit together in the foreground, holding hands; in the backgrouns smoke rises from a buildi [...]

Keywords: letterb, initials, people, romance, frames, borders, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-22

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Woman with initial letter “V” Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A decorative Fraktur (German) initial letter “V” in which a naked woman with flowers in herhair is kept modest by a cherub waving some cloth; another cherub clings merrily to a carved object to which [...]

Keywords: initials, letterv, romance, nudity, women, people, cherubs, greyscale

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Added: 2010-08-07

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Romantic Woman with Cherubs and Cartouche Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A blank cartouche or frame for a sign is placed on this image so you could use it as a decorative initital or drop cap; a woman is surrounded by signs of love. It is a version of this decorative lette [...]

Keywords: romance, nudity, women, people, cherubs, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2010-08-08

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Decorative initial letter “B” with boy and book Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

This decorative initial letter B was used as a drop cap alongside a poem. It features an open book with a quill pen, old-fashioned spectacles scrollwork, roses, fruit, a styilized su with rays shoning [...]

Keywords: romance, cherubs, nudity, letterb, initials, books, pens, writing, sun, roses, flowers, cartici, frames, greyscale

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Added: 2012-10-14

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168.—Lovers in the bushes. New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

A gentleman and a woman, the man with a formal jacket with long tails and the woman with a long dress and a broad-brimmed hat or bonnet walk through bushes and trees, arm in arm.

Keywords: people, romance, lovers, costumes, formal, walking, bushes, greyscale

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Added: 2011-06-13

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Awaiting the postman on Saint Valentine’s Day Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

St. Valentine’s day, the 14th of February (US: February 14) “Where can the postman be, I say? He ought to fly—on such a day!Of all days in the year, you know, It’s monstrous rude to be so slow: The fe [...]

Keywords: people, romance, sketches, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2007-01-05

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