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Cartouche with Sculpture, Art and ArchitectureArt-Journal (1850)

This is the main engraving from the title page of the 1850 Art-Journal, without the writing. A group of three topless women stand on an ancient sarcophagus; the women represent sculpture (with a hamme [...]

Keywords: cartici, frames, borders, art, architecture, sculpture, painting, people, statuary, circular, sarcophagi, greyscale

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2015-09-24

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Dedication page With CartoucheArt-Journal (1850)

The dedication page comes after the title page and imprint page. Here it uses a giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems to enclose the text. At the foot of the page, under the text, and s [...]

Keywords: page images, cartici, frames, borders, circular, statuary, art, heraldry, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-24

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Oval or Elliptical Victorian FrameArt-Journal (1850)

This giant elliptical (oval) frame or cartouche is taken from the dedication page of the magazine. The giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems enclosed the text. At the foot of the page, [...]

Keywords: frames, cartici, borders, crowns, heraldry, royalty, sculpture, statuary, art, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-24

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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

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-08-17

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The Good ShepherdBible Symbols (1908)

ernhard Plockhorst’s famous painting shows Jesus as a caucasian male (with a long straight nose), surrounded by sheep. He is barefoot, and carries a lamb, holding also a shepherd’s crook. He is protra [...]

Keywords: easter, religion, portraits, people, sheep, art, bare feet, purple, colour

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2010-06-22

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Frontispiece: Dinant, Showing Old Castle and CathedralThe Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

The building with the elongated dome structure is the main church, the thirteenth century Notre Dame de Dinant. When we fared forth into the streets of Dinant the morning after our arrival, we found a [...]

Keywords: views, cityscapes, churches, mountains, rivers, water, colour, art, buildings, houses, rooves

Places shown: Dinant; Wallonia; Namur; Belgium

Added: 2018-08-24

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TItle PageMy Friends’ Birthdays (1885)

The title page from “My Friends’ Birthdays” includes a picture of a vase or urn with an artist’s easel, pallette and brushes, a Victorian border for a Victorian scrapbook!

Keywords: art, title pages, page images, colour, esaels, vases, paint, pallettes, borders, victoriana

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-08

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Ecce Ancilla Domini [Behold the blesséd Mary]Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

This is that blessed Mary, pre-elect God’s Virgin. Gone is a great while, and she Dwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee, Unto God’s will she brought devout respect, Profound simplicity of intellect, And [...]

Keywords: religion, paintings, people, saints, mary, annunciation, biblical scenes, art, christianity, xmas, easter, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-23

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115.—Rome—A fragment after Piranesi.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An engraving showing a fragment of a statue, or, more likely, a reproduction of a drawing by Piranesi of a Roman statue.

A short 1812 biography of Piranesi

Keywords: statuary, sketches, art, people, roman remains, shields, ruins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-09-11

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116.—Roman Victory.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Succeeding emperors left the Britons in the quiet advancement of their civilization, until Claudius (Fig. 118) was stirred up to the hazard of an invasion. In the sonorous prose of Milton—“He, who wai [...]

Keywords: symbols, art, writing, statuary, roman remains, shields, cartici, borders, frames, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-09-12

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Miniature painting of a portrait artist with easelBook of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10 (1533)

A Mediæval (OK, Medieval in America) miniature painting taken from a Latin book of hours. The artist is wearing a red gown and a blue hood and stole or scarf. He is painting a woman, holding his brush [...]

Keywords: colour, people, art, animals, windows, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-01

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Horses eating a scanty mealArt-Journal (1850)

THE VERNON GALLERY THE SCANTY MEAL. J.F. Herring, Painter. E Hacker, Engraver. Size of the Picture, 2 ft 5¼ in by 1 ft 9½ in. — The various engravings which within the last few years have been made f [...]

Keywords: animals, horses, painting, straw, birds, art, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-24

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Evangelist with lionBook of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10 (1533)

A bearded man, perhaps in his thirties or forties, sits holding a book in his lap; to his left is a writing stand with an open manuscript; he holds a quill pen to his eye. There is a lion behind him, [...]

Keywords: colour, people, art, animals, windows, writing, pictures of books, religion, scholars, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-29

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Miniature: Garden of GethsemanuBook of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10 (1533)

The disciples of Jesus sleep while Jesus prays, “let this cup be taken from me,” although since they were asleep no-one actually heard his prayer. The disciples are depicted as caucasian men with bar [...]

Keywords: colour, people, art, religion, gardens, bare feet, beards, prayer, christmas

Places shown: Jerusalem; Israel

Added: 2006-09-29

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Jugend Magazine, January 1900, Front CoverJugend [German art magazine] (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

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-12

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In the Land of CounterpaneA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A boy lies ill in bed in this vintage watercolour painting; he has wooden toy soldiers arranged on the bed-covers. The Land of Counterpane When I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillos at my head, [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, toys, games, sickness, beds, play, art, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-02-02

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III. – Morning in Amsterdam.Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band I (1895)

Morgen in Amsterdam Morning in Amsterdam. The church in the background might be St Nicolaas’ in Amsterdam. Von den jüngeren deutschen Landschaftsmalern hat sich Hans Hermann rasch einen bedeutenden Ru [...]

Keywords: art, people, buildings, impressionist paintings, cities, street scenes, morning, greyscale

Places shown: Amsterdam; North Holland; Netherlands

Added: 2019-02-13

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Declaration of IndependenceThe Table Book of Art (1880)

This, it turns out, is a very famous painting in America. This version is cropped to make a screen background: there is also a widescreen version which has the full painting as reproduced in the book. [...]

Keywords: art, politics, royalty, terrorism, people, interiors, americana, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; USA

Added: 2012-11-15

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Methought what pain it was to drownA Painter’s Anthology (1924)

Dangling seaweed from above; fishes; a treasure on the bottom; a watercolour scene of the sea to illustrate the dream of Clarence from Shakespeare’s play Richard III. Methought, what pain it was to [...]

Keywords: colour, underwater scenes, water, fish, blue, art, treasure

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-05-09

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Restoration of Old Cottage at Steep PetersfieldOld English Country Cottages (1906)

STEEP, HAMPSHIRE. From a water-colour drawing by Walter Tyndale. The only district where stone-slated roofs were hipped was in the heart of the tile counties. Here there are a number, the builders me [...]

Keywords: cottages, art, houses, roofs, chimneys, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Steep; Hampshire; England

Added: 2012-10-30

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