Items matching winter (results page 1)

January Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A mean wearing warm boots, coat and hat walks through the snow, blowing on his hands to warm them, and is accompanied by a dog. The roofs of a nearby farm and house are covered in snow. In the sky is [...]

Keywords: snow, animals, dogs, people, winter, months, calendars, january, aquarius, zodiac, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-03-18

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Howsham Hall. Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1870)

A man on a horse, with a gun and hunting-dogs, approaching a country manor-house over snow. It looks like a storm is coming. There are ancient trees here. The text accompanying this is as follows: H [...]

Keywords: manors, snow, people, trees, dogs, winter, colour, christmas

Places shown: Malton; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2007-02-15

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In the story-books. A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

Summer fading, winter comes— Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, And the picture story-books.   Water now is turned to stone Nurse and I can walk upon; Still we find the fl [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, children, winter, comfort, reading, books, windows, snow, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-07-21

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887.—Men Skating At Night. New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

Five men are skating on a frozen pond at night, leaving trails in the ice. They smile. They are wearing top hats and eighteenth-century dress. One of them carries a cane. In the background, wintry tr [...]

Keywords: people, winter, christmas, sport, costumes, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-12-13

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Lantern-carrier London (Volume I) (1841)

A bearded man wearing a broad-brimmed hat and wearing a heavy winter coat walks forward carrying a spear in his left hand and a lit lantern, or lanthorn, in his right. ‘Lanthorn, and a whole candle li [...]

Keywords: people, street scenes, lanterns, weapons, spears, beards, winter, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2012-12-15

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December Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 1543)An old tonsured man wearing a monk’s robe and a gown is supping lustily from a giant bowl of liquid. He rides a goat, representing the lasciviousness of the festivals at December.A poem un [...]

Keywords: people, bowls, winter, animals, goats, monks, calendars, months, december, christmas, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-11-06

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The Robin’s Christmas Carol The Leisure Hour (1896)

A robin redbreast sits on a sprig of holly and sings. The holly has berries. In the background is a winter scene with a snow-covered house. “A little robin sweetly singing    Came to my window on a C [...]

Keywords: christmas, birds, snow, winter, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-14

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In Single File The Leisure Hour (1896)

Three ladies skating on ice one after the other, holding on to a pole. They are Dutch, and have the clogs to prove it.

Keywords: people, winter, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-18

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Snow in Town A Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

The title for this poem show a boy gathering a snowball, and some houses with roofs covered in snow, and an old-fashioned lamp-post. Nothing is quite so quiet and clean     As snow that falls in the [...]

Keywords: winter, snow, poetry, christmas, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-17

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Sleighing The Leisure Hour (1896)

A driver and two passengers (a man and a woman) ride a horse-driven sleigh over the ice. The image, which is printed using a dot-screen method to simulate gray, is signed Davey, and also (I think) Car [...]

Keywords: winter, christmas, people, horses, animals, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-10

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General Sullivan’s House Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. LXXIII. (1886)

I thought this picture would make a good Christmas Card! It shows the New England house of a wealthy lawyer from the 18th century, snow-covered in a wintry December. John Sullivan was a lawyer in D [...]

Keywords: winter, christmas, snow, american uprising, houses, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Durham; New Hampshire; USA

Added: 2011-12-23

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They knelt on the seat, and fired deliberately Chatterbox Annual (1916)

It’s winter, and the horses are pulling the sleigh over the snow and through the forest, with wolves in hot pursuit. The young people (teens?) in the back are firing their rifles at the wolves. “Annie [...]

Keywords: horses, carts, people, guns, weapons, wolves, winter, snow, trees, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-11-16

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