Magazine of Art Illustrated (page 4/4)

Initial Capital Letter “D” with Bacchus

Decorative initial letter capital “D” featuring vine-leaves, and a modestly-clad almost-naked seated Bacchus [more...] [$]

Heraldic Dragon.

The dragon is, perhaps, the most venerable symbol employed in ornamental art. (p. 375) [more...] [$]

Decorative Initial T With Dragons

An initial used for a drop cap (drop capital, or decorative initial) in this 1880 book. The initial is a letter “T” and has two dragons in it. It is signed with a monogram LFD, [...] [more...] [$]

Decorative Initial T With Dragons (Borderless Version)

This is a version of the drop cap letter t with a dragon but without the gray border around it, to make it a little more versatile. You can use the smaller sizes directly in your Web pages if you like. In the book it spans 14 lines of text. [more...] [$]

Initial letter T with cherubs

An initial letter “T” used as a drop cap in the magazine; the letter is supported by two naked people wity styized wings; they have genitals but are clearly intended to be infants. There is also a floral (floriated) [...] [more...] [$]

Poppies and Tiger Lillies

This is a digital scan of a print of an engraving representing a painting on china done in 1878 by Miss Charlotte H. Spiers. The plate in question was shown at the fifth Annual exhibition of Paintings on China at the galleries of [...] [more...] [$]

Autumn Anemones (By Miss Alice Argyles)

The reviewers say some pretty rude things about this piece, making me wonder why they included it, even though it won a prize. Indeed, the prize shows, it seems to me, [...] [more...] [$]

Shelter.

Shelter by Arthur Hopkins. [more...] [$]

Music

Music by Raphael Collin. [more...] [$]

Initial letter “G” with a dragon

A Victorian decorative initial letter “G” used as a drop cap at the start of a section. The capital G has a dragon with wings, horns, a long scaly tail and clawed feet interwined around it. [more...] [$]

Taufers

Taufers is first mentioned in the year 1080, but not until the yeat 1149 does the family seem to have risen to any importance; but from then, until it does out in 1312, it was one [...] [more...] [$]

Decorated Initial Letter T with Cherubs and Mask

A cherub or putti holds up a bearded man’s facemask to scare the three other cherubs in this decorative initial letter “T” used as a drop cap. The capital T has floral decorations as well as wild roses [...] [more...] [$]