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Frontispiece: Clerk Colvill Some British Ballads (1919)

The young man clutches his hat with one hand and with the other holds aloft a sword as he kneels at the edge of a pond. From that same pond a mermaid rises up, arms raised, breasts bare. This beautifu [...]

Keywords: people, trees, water, swords, mermaids, colour

Places shown: Slane; County Meath; Ireland

Added: 2006-05-13

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Types of Armour The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

Explanation of the Plate of Armour No. 1. A Shield called a Roundel. No. 2. A Target. No. 3. A Leaden Mallet, used by the archers, mentioned in the military part of the preface. No. 4. An Iron Mace us [...]

Keywords: armour, weapons, knights, shields, helmets, swords, spears, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-02-22

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Perseus und Andromeda. Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

A damsel in distress if ever the was one! The woman (Andromeda) is chained at wrist and ankle to a rock in the sea, and a viscious sea-monster is about to swaller her up. But look! The helmeted and sa [...]

Keywords: dragons, monsters, chains, bare feet, gods, heroes, swords, water, waves, mythology, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-06-14

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A Mameluke in Full Armour. Pictureseque Egypt Vol II (1878)

We have seen how deplorable was the condition of the country [1790s Egypt] at that time, drained by the greed of the Turkish Pacha and the Mameluke Beys; its population, which at the present day [1870 [...]

Keywords: people, costumes, soldiers, weapons, spears, swords, helmets, greyscale

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2010-12-28

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80.—British and Roman Weapons. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantry [...]

Keywords: weapons, swords, shields, helmets, axes, spears, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-25

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192.—Arms and Costume of Danish Warriors Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Two male soldiers are shown, one bearded and one beardless. On the right, a man with a headdress of some kind wears a short kilt or skirt, and has one hand resting on his thigh and the other holding a [...]

Keywords: soldiers, people, weapons, swords, costumes, stone circles, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-24

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194.—Ringed Mail. Cotton MS. Claud. B, 4. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An illustration of a Biblical scene but with Anglo-Saxon costumes and weapons. A king (with a long forked breard) wears a crown, brandishes a heavy sword and carries a shield; he wears ring-mail. Next [...]

Keywords: soldiers, royalty, kings, weapons, swords, shields, mail, armour, saxon england, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-07-19

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Painted Window. Two Saxon Earls of Mercia, And Seven Norman Earls of Chester. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A reproduction in colour of a sixteenth-century painted glass window showing various earls and barons of Chester. Brereton Hall, in Cheshire, was built in the reign of Elizabeth, by Sir William Breret [...]

Keywords: windows, royalty, people, costumes, knights, crowns, swords, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-12-04

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King Edward VII. in his uniform as colonel of a Russian regiment. The Leisure Hour (1904)

King Edward VII of England wearing a dress uniform, complete with medals and sword. Anonymous.

Keywords: royalty, people, swords, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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Behold it then! cried Perseus Myths Every Child Should Know (1914)

“Behold it then!” cried Perseus, in a voice like the blast of a trumpet. King Polydectes has demanded to be shown the head of the Gorgon, which turns to stone all who gaze upon it. So the King is of [...]

Keywords: soldiers, mythology, illustrations for children, colour, bare feet, weapons, swords, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-04-10

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821.—Edward I. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

King Edward I (“Longshanks”) of England lived from 1239 – 1307. He was crowned in 1272 but was away on Crusade and did not rule until 1274. He is shown here riding a horse and wearing a full suit of [...]

Keywords: royalty, knights, horses, weapons, swords, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-02

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August and Virgo Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

“AUGUST The eighth was August, being rich array’d In garment all of gold downe to the ground: Yet rode he not, but led a lovely mayd Forth by the lily hand, the which was crown’d With eares of corne [ [...]

Keywords: people, weapons, swords, summer, calendars, months, august, virgo, zodiac, astrology, september, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-02

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