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Rosalind. In an Old Monastery Garden. The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

This painting of a young lady, Rosalind, in a (sketched) garden shows the young woman wearing brown dress, cloak and boots, and looking very much a product of 1914. She has red lips.

Keywords: people, women, gardens, art, colour

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Added: 2011-08-17

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Aunt Silvia in her Domain Look at the Bright Side (1883)

A small girl plays with a toy horse, dolls, a doll-house and a sheep on wheels; she crouches on the floor. Behind her a boy holds a stick. An older girl talks to the servant, who is dark-skinned, and [...]

Keywords: people, children, women, slavery, slaves, interiors, greyscale

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Added: 2007-06-18

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Emblem 1. Serpent. Eve. Emblems Divine and Moral (1866)

This woodcut shows a naked woman (the Biblical Eve) near an apple tree; a snake or serpent coils round the trunk of the tree. In the background ar a palm tree, a camel, and, in the far distance, a ma [...]

Keywords: emblems, people, nudity, women, snakes, trees, temptation, biblical scenes, greyscale

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Added: 2007-09-16

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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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How to write a love letter Safe Counsel: Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners (1896)

A lady, wreathed with laurel in her hair, sits by a brick wall with vines and flowers holding a large sheet of paper in one hand and a pen in the other: she is about to write. She wears a loose dress [...]

Keywords: people, romance, writing, bare feet, women, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-07

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62s.—Initial capital letter “S” from Dance of Death Alphabet. Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This decorative initial letter “S”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. The skeleton figures in the alphabet represent death. This letter, S, has two skelet [...]

Keywords: letters, initials, death, people, skeletons, sex, women, greyscale

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Added: 2011-02-28

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Zodiac wheel with woman (detail) La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The central part of the illustration of the Zodiac wheel with the Evangelist symbols; here the main symbols are the astrological signs for the planets, the sun and the moon. I have also made separate [...]

Keywords: people, women, zodiac, astrology, colour, symbols, planets, sun, moon

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-26

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160.—Begger Women with Cup and Spoon. Callot’s Etchings (1635)

wo women in tattered clothing, one barefoot, onr using a cane to walk, one with a hat and the othe with a hood and a ruff around her neck.

Keywords: people, poverty, beggars, women, costumes, greyscale

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Added: 2012-03-31

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Cleopatra A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

A Pre-Rapaelite drawing showing Cleopatra with some round-breasted topless women, presumably slaves or attendants, standing behind her with musical instruments. Incense burns in the foreground, and a [...]

Keywords: people, women, slaves, slavery, music, musical instruments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-10-04

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Female Macaroni. Historic Byways and Highways of Old England (1900)

Some dandies who had visited Italy formed in London, about 1770, an association under the title of the Macaroni Club. On their dinner-table was always placed a dish of macaroni, an article of food li [...]

Keywords: people, women, hair, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-01-29

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The Old year and the New A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

A jester crowns the new year as a young woman, and ushers out the old year, an old woman. This picture was obviously made for the end of 1866 and the start of 1867; it is dated 1867 in the text. It w [...]

Keywords: comics, drawings, people, new year, jesters, women, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-12-22

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