Items matching spooky (results page 1)

Jailer walking into the dark Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A man walks with a lighted taper into the back of the crypt. In the foreground we see empty wine-bottles and a wine-barrel (or beer-barrel). This is a detail taken from a larger picture, The crypt of [...]

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, crypts, darkness, spooky, people, darkness, arches, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2013-06-04

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525.—The Crypt, St. Bartholomew’s Church. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A dark stone-vaulted crypt extends as far as we can see; a man walks away from us, holding a burning taper out to light his way and carrying a heavy key. In the foreground a wine-barrel serves to hold [...]

Keywords: crypts, people, drinking, barrels, darkness, interiors, churches, arches, pillars, lamps, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2013-06-04

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Panik! Detail: Medusa Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900)

Medusa has snakes for hair and don’t look, Medusa’s gaze will turn you to stone!

This is a detail from Panik! Panik!M painted orange.

Keywords: mythical creatures, medusa, colour, snakes, faces, horror, spooky

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-16

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Knight, Death and the Devil (1513) Engravings on metal by Albrecht Duerer

This is one of three engravings in a series called Meisterstiche. The others are Melancholia I and Saint Jerome in His Study. The engraving is dated 1513, two hundred years after the dissolution of t [...]

Keywords: knights, death, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-06-25

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Page detail: Art Neuveau border The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A detail from the January Week 1 page showing the decorative border, which repeats on every fourth page throughout most of the book. A cat stands on a skull.

Keywords: borders, cats, skulls, sketches, spooky, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

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Full Page Border With Alchemical And Zodiacal Symbols and Signs The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer (Book II) (1801)

I made this full-page astrology border using some of the astrological and occult signs and symbols from the table Names of Angels and Days; the table is not square, so niether is this border, for a mo [...]

Keywords: borders, astrology, symbols, occult, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-10-16

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In a Gloomy Wood Inferno: The Vision of Hell (1870)

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growt [...]

Keywords: forests, spooky, people, trees, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-28

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Romantic and Atmospheric Graveyard World’s Best Music (1900)

Tombstones sit in long grass under a spreading tree. There is also a tomb visible, as well as a number of graves.

Keywords: gravestones, trees, churchyards, spooky, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2007-10-28

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Abbey Ruins, Elstow Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

“[...] the Benedictine Abbey which stood on the further side of [Elstow church]. This abbey was succeeded by a secular structure of the Renaissance period, considerable remains of which are still st [...]

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, churches, abbeys, ruins, trees, arches, entrances, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Elstow; Bedfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-27

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detail: swinging corpse: silhouette Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

A version of the swinging corpose cartoon with the details obliterated, leaving just an outline.

Keywords: spooky, death, people, punishments, cartoons, humour, silhouettes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-15

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18. Five Skulls Fabrica... (1543)

The top-left skull here is normal, and the others are abnormal.

Keywords: anatomy, skulls, death, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-11-03

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A Woman torn in peices by the Devil. pa. 14. Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The “pa. 14.” refers to page 14, which has the following text: “XVII. At Oster, a Village in Germany, there happened a most strange and fearful judgement upon a Woman who gave her self to the Devil, b [...]

Keywords: religion, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Oster; Mosel; Germany

Added: 2006-07-28

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