Items matching statues

Grotesque Head [detail]

A good picture for All-Souls Night or Halloween!

A detail from Grotesque Head

Keywords: heads, statues, fountains, gargoyles, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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St. George and the Dragon

An engraving showing a statue of St. George slaying the dragon, by J. E. Boehm, A.R.A. St. George is here depicted as an almost-naked man riding a horse, a Roman centurian wearing only sandals and a h [...]

Keywords: statues, dragons, people, weapons, animals, horses

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-10-28

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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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St. George and the Dragon [detail]

A detail from St. George and the Dragon showing the dragon’s head.

Keywords: dragons, statues, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-10-28

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Grotesque Head

By M. Legrain. From the Cascade Basin. [at the Paris Exhibition of 1878] A good gargoyle picture for All-Souls Night or Halloween! “These masks, modelled by M. Legrain, were among the most amusing ex [...]

Keywords: heads, statues, fountains, gargoyles, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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Colossal Bull

By M. Cain. Grand Basin of the Trocadéro Palace.) “One of the chief features of the paris Exhibition of 1878 was the magnificent waterfall beneath the Trocadéro Palace and the grand basin at the foot [...]

Keywords: statues, bulls, animals

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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Niches at Oriel

From a Drawing by A. Brunet-Debaines.

Keywords: gothic, windows, entrances, statues, colleges

Places shown: Oriel College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-17

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The Gateway of St. John’s College

From an Etching by H. Toussaint. St. John’s College, Oxford, was founded in 1555, replacing an earlier college abolished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The statue of St. Bernard [I think] [...]

Keywords: colleges, gothic, arches, entrances, statues, people

Places shown: St. John’s College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-04

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The Lion Gates, Hampton Court

Hampton Court Palace was built by Cardinal Wolsey, starting in 1514, although some time in the 1520s it became the property of King Henry VIII. The Lion Gates are at the Bushey Park entrance to the Pa [...]

Keywords: gates, entrances, statues, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: East Molesey; Surrey; England

Added: 2006-01-19

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418.—Ancient Statue of Guy at Guys Cliff

This is Guy of Warwick, mentioned in some of the Robin Hood stories.

Guy’s Cliff is pretty ruined now. It’s between Warwick and Coventry.

Keywords: statues, people

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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62.—Gaulish Costume.

“The dresses of the inhabitants of Britain before the Roman invasion are not, like those of the people of ancient Egypt, and other countries advanced in the practice of the imitative arts, to be trace [...]

Keywords: statues, costumes, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-20

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61.—Gaulish Costume.

“The dresses of the inhabitants of Britain before the Roman invasion are not, like those of the people of ancient Egypt, and other countries advanced in the practice of the imitative arts, to be trace [...]

Keywords: statues, costumes, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-20

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