Items matching birds, greyscale (results page 115)

Completely Mesmerized Safe Counsel: Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners (1896)

A man, with rather dark and creepy eyes, touches a blindfolded woman on the shoulder; they are both wearing somewhat formal Victorian costumes.

The wood-engraving is signed W. Bertram.

Keywords: people, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-07

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Odysseus und Polyphem Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

Odysseus and Polyphem

In English I think this is Oedipus and Polypheme; Polypheme was a Cyclops, whome Odysseus blinded after getting him drunk.

Keywords: heroes, bare feet, nudity, people, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-07-05

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Chapter-end Ornament: diagonal Safe Counsel: Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners (1896)

A small ornment at the end of the text.

Keywords: ornaments, greyscale

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Added: 2010-01-07

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Index, manicule, or pointing hand Typographic Ornaments (1850)

Drawings of hands, often with arms attached, were added to mediæval manuscripts by people who used them; the hands were used to draw attention to particular passages of interest.This hand, index, or m [...]

Keywords: manicules, hands, pointers, ornaments, drawings, indexes, maniculæ bookmarks, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-09-07

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Stock block: two dancing harlequins Typographic Ornaments (1850)

This vintage art pair of jesters are two men dressed as harlequins, or clowns; the one on the left has a hat with bells on it and carries a punch-and-judy style stick with a head on the end; the one o [...]

Keywords: clowns, harlequins, dancing, people, men, costumes, stock blocks, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-09-12

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Winged fairy boy sitting in wreath Little Folks Magazine Vol 64 (1906)

A naked boy with butterfly wings sits smiling in a large wreath of leaves and flowers; his bare feet are together and his hands reach out beside his ankles, his knees almost up aganst his chest. He ha [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, children, people, nudity, bare feet, wings, fairies, mythological creatures, boys, wreaths, christmas, xmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-08-07

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stock block: scales, or equal-arm balance. Typographic Ornaments (1850)

In an equal arm balance like this one you can compare the weights of things in the two pans; often you use a set of standardized weights in one pan and add them until the lever at the top is level, in [...]

Keywords: scales, scientific instruments, diagrams, balance, balancing, stock blocks, libra, zodiac, astrology, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-04-28

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Stock block: Victorian railway engine and tender Typographic Ornaments (1850)

No source is given for this 2-4-0 steam engine US: railroad locomotive) and it’s not clear whether it is a drawing of an actual engine and tender or just a generic one.This picture was originally sold [...]

Keywords: steam engines, railways, engines, transport, steam, smoke, people, stock blocks, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-04-28

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The Bittern Bible Animals (1877)

“I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools for water” – Isa. xiv. 29.In the account of the hedgehog, page 120, it has been mentioned that the Hebrew wordKippod, which has been render [...]

Keywords: birds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-07-06

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Stock block: deer skull Typographic Ornaments (1850)

This vintage woodcut of a deer skull looks almost like a Cthulhu monster or the “Kraken”.This picture was originally sold as a “stock block” or “stock cut”—that is, a form of clip art in which metal p [...]

Keywords: skulls, death, horns, antlers, eye-sockets, spooky, cthulhu, tentacles, stock blocks, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-09-12

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Stock block: Child kneeling in a circular vignette Typographic Ornaments (1850)

This Victorian engraving shows a boy (probably) kneeling within a circular border; he holds a boquet of flowers in one hand as he gazes at a butterly perched on his other hand. There’s a circle of flo [...]

Keywords: children, innocence, flowers, butterflies, nudity, bare feet, boys, circular, stock blocks, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-09-12

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stock block: Terrier woodcut Typographic Ornaments (1850)

This woodcut of a Scottish cairn terrier, or similar dog, is an example of a stock block (or stock cut): an illustraiton sold to printers on a stereotyped copy of the original engraving, for use in th [...]

Keywords: dogs, animals, stock blocks, clip art, cairn terriers, terriers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-11-05

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Chapterheads with cherubs, dragons, fish, neptune, flowers Typographic Ornaments (1850)

Three separate chapterheads: one with two cherubs, or naked boys, each holding one end of a rope, or a pipe with a bulb on the end, perhaps about to squirt some giant flowers; one with a Greek male h [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, flowers, fish, greek gods, heads, neptune, dragons, wyverns, mythological creatures, wings, floriated borders, foliated borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-11-20

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Odysseus toetet die Freier Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

Keywords: bare feet, nudity, weapons, people, heroes, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-10-17

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57.—Second Pulley System. Elementary Mechanics, Including Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. Revised edition (1882)

The only system of pulleys frequently employed for hoisting is what is called the second system, where there are two blocks of pulleys, one attached to the weight, and the other to the beam; and where [...]

Keywords: pulleys, machinery, diagrams, greyscale

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Added: 2008-10-29

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145.—St. Justin and Alphonso I of Ferrara (Moretto) Sacred and Legendary Art (1890)

St. Justina is shown here with the unicorn, representing chasitity or virginity. The original painting by Bonvicino of Brescia (Il Moretto) was in Venice. This is the St, Justina of the Belvedere.She [...]

Keywords: saints, mythical creatures, unicorns, people, religion, iconography, greyscale

Places shown: Ferrara; Emilia-Romagna; Italy

Added: 2013-03-27

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Kneeling unicorn Sacred and Legendary Art (1890)

A unicorn with beard, mane and horn kneels, looking to the right.

This is a detail from Fig. 145,St. Justin and Alphonso I of Ferrara.

Keywords: unicorns, mythical creatures, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-03-27

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58.—Screw Lever Pointer. Elementary Mechanics, Including Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. Revised edition (1882)

139. A combination of levers is sometimes used, but more often for the purpose of magnifying small motions than for exerting great force; that is, for increasing the factorsin the product work at the [...]

Keywords: machinery, levers, diagrams, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-10-29

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Gate at Karnak Travels Around the World (1873)

[Karnak] is the most imposing ruin in the world, devastated sadly, but not in a heap ofdébris. The ruins cover an area of nearly two miles in circumference. Was there one symmetrial structure, dedicat [...]

Keywords: temples, entrances, gates, ancient egypt, greyscale

Places shown: Karnak; Egypt

Added: 2007-03-27

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59.—Screw Press. Elementary Mechanics, Including Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. Revised edition (1882)

A lever and an inclined plane may be combined together into a screw-press, the incluned plane being coiled up into a spiral or screw-thread (fig. 59). For every complete revolution of the lever, the [...]

Keywords: machinery, screws, knobs, diagrams, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-10-29

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