Victorian vine-leaf page border
A border for a title-page, made from vine leaves with fruits. The engraving has a lot of small dots that might be ink spots from overly fast or careless printing, or might be part of the design. [more...]
[$]The Adoration of the Maji. By F. R. Pickersgill, R.A.
The Adoration of the Magi, or Maji, or Wise Men, or th eThree Kings (the Gospels do not say that they were kings, nor that there were three of them) is a popular subject; here two of them are prostrate on the ground, barefoot, while a third waits. Mary might havea Jewish [...] [more...]
[$]King Lear and Fool in a Storm.
“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts, and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples.” [more...]
Lear Fantastically Dressed with Flowers
By Sir John Gilbert, R.A., P.R.W.S., By permission of Messrs. George Routledge & Sons. [more...]
[$]Their beds are made in swelling turf
A child, a girl in a long billowy dress perhaps, kneels in a graveyard in the winter snow, perhaps in moonlight. She holds a shovel, covering a grave perhaps. She is grieving. [more...]
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