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Frontispiece, Judges V. 20. Astrology (1806)

The engraving opposite the title page of this erly 19th century (1806) book on Astrology clearly tries to place a Biblical and Christian veneer over the proceedings. It falls perhaps a little wide of [...]

Keywords: astrology, temples, people, zodiac, spooky, christmas, greyscale

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Added: 2006-08-23

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Bona Dea - The Earth Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(Frontispiece) Earth is represented as a woman with twelve stars forming a halo around the crown on her head, and a lion beside her. She is crowned with the stars! She is depicted inside a picture fra [...]

Keywords: people, animals, lions, zodiac, symbols, aries, taurus, gemini, cancer, leo, virgo, libra, scorpio, sagittarius, aquarius, pisces, crowns, stars, greyscale

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Added: 2003-03-18

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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

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Added: 2003-03-18

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Robert Fludd - The Mirror of the Whole of Nature and the Image of Art Collected Occult Images (1690)

This engraving, captioned Integra Natura fpeculum Artisque imago, which is, The whole(ness) of nature reflected in the mirror of art, appeared in Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysic [...]

Keywords: occult, diagrams, alchemy, zodiac, astrology, people, nudity, greyscale

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Added: 2012-08-08

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Robert Fludd’s Mirror of Nature, Widescreen Version Collected Occult Images (1690)

A computer wallpaper based on a fragment of Nature’s Mirror.

Keywords: ocult, diagrams, alchemy, zodiac, astrology, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2012-08-08

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The Harmony of the World Astrology (1806)

The Biblical references at the bottom of this picture as as follows:Genesis 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be [...]

Keywords: zodiac, astrology, planets, sun, heaven, stars, angels, colour

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Added: 2005-01-17

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January: page image The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

The page containing the heading for January; I have also scanned the woodcut for January separately.

Keywords: colour, page images, typography, january, people, sheep, zodiac, trees

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Added: 2006-02-08

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Aquarius, or, the Water Bearer. Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

“The sun enters Aquarius on this day [21st January], though he does not enter it in the visible zodiac until the 18th of February. Ganymede, who succeeded Hebe as cup-bearer to Jove, is fabled to have [...]

Keywords: bare feet, people, beards, water, zodiac, aquarius, astrology, january, february, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2006-02-14

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February The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

February from The Shepheardes Calendar. An old shepherd, Thenot, speaks to a shepherd boy called Cuddie. We see the zodiac symbols for Pisces (the fish) in the sky.

Keywords: colour, calendars, months, february, people, animals, zodiac

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Added: 2006-02-08

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February Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

“— — Then came cold February, sitting In an old waggon, for he could not ride, Drawne of two fishes, for the season fitting, Which through the flood before did softly slyde And swim away; yet had he b [...]

Keywords: months, calendars, february, fish, people, carts, february, zodiac, pisces, greyscale

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Added: 2006-02-14

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Jugend Magazine, January 1900, Front Cover Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900)

The front cover from Jugend Magazine from Issue Two, January 1900. It features a blindfolded woman barefoot, resting one foot on a wheel, holding a cornucopia from which roses are falling. She reaches [...]

Keywords: book covers, art, art nouveau, time, zodiac, astrology, people, bare feet, clocks, colour

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Added: 2013-04-12

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March The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

March from The Shepheardes Calendar. Two shepherd’s boys begin to “make purpos of love and other plesaunce, which to springtime is most agreeable.” We see the two boys standing talking, and also Cupid [...]

Keywords: colour, calendars, months, march, people, cherubs, zodiac

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Added: 2006-02-08

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