Items matching birds (results page 1)

Printer’s ornament with birdsThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Two birds touch beaks, perhaps a mother feeding a baby, in this printer’s ornament, used as a tailpiece (tail-piece) at the end of a chapter. The design includes a harp, roses, ribbon or bunting and [...]

Keywords: ornaments, music, romance, roses, birds, musical instruments, harps, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-08-26

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Gothic Chapter Head: Mediaeval BirdsArchitecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

A decorative element (a typographic ornament, or part of a border) at the head of the first chapter (the glossary) features mediaeval (medieval) bird designs.

Keywords: chapterheads, ornaments, birds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-17

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Frontispiece: The Ostrich.Bible Animals (1877)

“What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider”—Job xxxix. 18.

The engraving shows an ostrich fleeing from a group of men on horses brandishing spears.

Keywords: birds, ostriches, people, horses, biblical scenes, greyscale

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2010-07-06

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Frontispiece: A Dream: Tertiary Man.Paris Avant l’Histoire (1885)

A naked man sits in a tree hugging his knees, his bare feet dangling. Behind him is a lake or river with elephants grazing. A bird wades through a marsh in the foreground. The man has short hair and a [...]

Keywords: people, nudity, bare feet, trees, elephants, animals, rivers, water, birds, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2014-01-21

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A Dream: Tertiary man (Ultra HD TV version)Paris Avant l’Histoire (1885)

A detail cropped to a widescreen format from the Frontispiece showing the naked youth sitting in a nest in a tree, with the river and elephants behind him.

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, widescreen, people, prehistory, nudity, bare feet, trees, elephants, animals, rivers, water, birds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-01-21

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Faust, detail from title pageIllustrations fo Goethe’s Fause (1871)

Faust, or, the Lucky One. This illustration is from the title page of the book of Konewka’s ilustrations to Goethe’s Faust, and shows silhouettes of Faust (left) bargaining with Mephistophiles, or the [...]

Keywords: faust, silhouettes, people, men, lettering, socks, thistles, birds, leaves, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-04-26

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Fox and Goose Decoateive ElementThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A decorative motif, or page element, from the imprint page, shpwing a fox and a goose (or a duck maybe) reading a book.

Keywords: ornaments, animals, birds, books, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-01-27

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Bird fishingVictorian Trade Cards (1890)

In this 1880s trade card there’s a group of creatures at a pond. In the foreground stands a long-necked bird, a crane, wearing a hat with feathers and carrying a leather satchel. The ird has caught a [...]

Keywords: trade cards, birds, cranes, frogs, butterflies, btterfly nets, colour, victoriana, monkeys, ponds, water

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-01-13

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Hobo bird meets aristocrat rabbitVictorian Trade Cards (1890)

In this somewhat surreal Victorian trade card, or something similar, a bird, perhaps a wild turkey, meets a rabbit (or hare) walking upright on its hind legs down an inpaved road. Theres a wooden whit [...]

Keywords: trade cards, animals, signposts, walking sticks, birds, rabbits, costumes, surreal art, illustrations for children, smoking, pipes, travel, chance meetings, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-08-09

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Hollingbourne, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

A half-timbered cottage in Kent. The steep tiled roof was probably once thatched. From a water-colour drawing by Mrs. Allingham, R.W.S. The image is also marked “by permission of Mrs. Lionel Beddingt [...]

Keywords: cottages, flowers, moss, rooves, gardens, houses, colour, people, birds, colour, christmas

Places shown: Hollingbourne; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-31

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Love Birds KissingIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

Two birds (doves?) touch their beaks together over a rose in this romantic engraving.

Keywords: romance, love, birds, kissing, roses, doves, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-09-21

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Her mirror was the smooth water of the tide poolLegends of the Seven Seas (1929)

A mermaid, a young naked woman, sits on a rock and combs her long hair, her fish’s tail dangling in the water. Gulls circle by her head. A black and white drawing in a surprisingly modern art deco sty [...]

Keywords: peoppe, mermaids, women, nudity, birds, water, sitting, black and white, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-03-06

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Full-page border with bird, flowers, ivyIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This engraved border surrounded the table of contents in the original book. The text ended one blank line above the ornament at lower middle, although if you needed a little extra space you could dele [...]

Keywords: borders, gardens, flowers, birds, plants, ivy, creepers, spring, romance, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-01-12

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85.—Roman Eagle.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The cavalry and the war-chariots of the active Britons met the invader on the beach; and whilst the soldiers hesitated to leave the ships, the standard-bearer of the tenth legion leaped into the water [...]

Keywords: symbols, birds, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-06

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Decorative initial “K” on scroll with owl and rosesGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

This ornamental letter “K” was used as an 8-line drop cap initial. It featuers an owl, two rose flowers, leaves, and a German Fraktur letter “K” on a scroll.

Keywords: initials, letterk, birds, owls, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-23

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Decorative chapter head with styilized birds and green menSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

A decorative woodcut used above a chapter title at the start of the book. The image is a “foliate border” because it contains vines and leaves, but there are also two bird heads and two heads (in prof [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, mythical creatures, borders, birds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-10-20

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Page 151. Birds of the Air.Buch der Natur [Book of Nature] (1481)

Eagle and duck, peacock and rooster, jackdaw and goose! (what else?)

The page has only this illustration, no text.

Keywords: birds, paintings, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-10

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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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Partridges.The Natural History of Selborne (1879)

“Partridges in vast plenty are bred in good seasons on the verge of this forest [the forest of Wolmer, mostly in the parish of Selborne], into which they love to make excursions; and in particular, i [...]

Keywords: birds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-12-12

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Partridge WallpaperThe Natural History of Selborne (1879)

A desktop background (wallpaper image) picture; it’s a version of the Partridges engraving with most of the background removed.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, birds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-12-12

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