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1650x655, 504x200, 750x298 | Monroe Colliery Co.Strong’s Book of Designs (1917) A sign for a fictional gas and coal company, including a torch surrounded by a wreath. It would make a great prop for a picture or film set in America in 1910 or so. Monroe Colliery Co. Fairmont Gas [...] Keywords: signs, lettering, art deco, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2024-08-29 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 144x200, 1768x2450, 541x750, 884x1225 | ExecutionJugend [German art magazine] (1903) This rather dramatic picture showd person about to be hung by an angry mob until they are dead. People are tugging on the rpe to raise the victim; they wear workers’ clothing and some of them are [...] Keywords: death, murder, lynching, hanging, execution, people, men, hatred, injustice, bare feet, sketches, greyscale Places shown: Germany Added: 2021-05-30 + S K L |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Whittington Castle, Shropshire (wallpaper version)In Unfamiliar England (1910) This is a version of Whittington Castle resized and cropped so it fits on most computer desktops. Keywords: castles, moats, water, towers, overgrown, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Oswestry; Shropshire; England Added: 2005-10-23 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1200x840, 1600x1120, 286x200, 900x630 | Whittington Castle, Shropshire.In Unfamiliar England (1910) There was a castle here over a thousand years ago, but the current buildings probably date from the 1200s and later. Whitting Castle Preservation Trust hopes to conserve the castle. All the book says [...] Keywords: castles, moats, water, towers, overgrown, greyscale Places shown: Oswestry; Shropshire; England Added: 2005-10-23 + S K L R N |
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| 171x200, 560x654, 840x981 | 372. Male thorax and abdomenFabrica... (1543) A torso inspired by classical statues here reveals its internal organs. Keywords: anatomy, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2008-11-03 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1263x504, 1685x673, 2246x897, 2995x1196, 500x200, 710x284, 947x378 | Heraldic Dragon.Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878) The dragon is, perhaps, the most venerable symbol employed in ornamental art. (p. 375) Fronm the first the dragon was always a favourite device in heraldry. What more frequent than the dragon-crested [...] Keywords: dragons, mythical creatures, heraldry, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2009-01-09 + S K L |
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1174x1162, 202x200, 294x291, 660x654, 881x872 | Decorative Initial T With DragonsMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) 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, presumably for Lewis [...] Keywords: lettert, initials, dragons, mythical creatures, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2009-01-10 + S K L |
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144x144, 200x200, 210x210, 281x281, 375x375, 72x72 | Decorative Initial T With Dragons (Borderless Version)Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878) 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 lik [...] Keywords: lettert, initials, dragons, mythical creatures, clipart, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2009-01-10 + S K L |
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1181x1015, 1575x1354, 233x200, 885x761 | Woodcroft House in Etton Parish in Northamptonshire where Dr. Michael Hudson was murthered 6 June 1648Desiderata (1779) It seems that Dr. Hudson had tried to hide in a tower, but was caught; he tried to escape, and ended up dangling over the edge of the tower by his hands. His hands (or fingers, accounts vary) were cu [...] Keywords: violence, murder, manors, moats, people, battles, greyscale Places shown: Etton; Northamptonshire; England Added: 2006-08-18 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 145x200, 1743x2400, 545x750, 872x1200 | Art Nouveau Border with ivy leaves and face.Jugend [German art magazine] (1903) This border in green and brown features a the head of young man with a slightly puzzled smile, ivy leaves, perhaps a halo, and stylized rectangular vines. It originally surrounded a German poem, “Amer [...] Keywords: borders, foliated borders, people, faces, hair, eyes, ivy, colour, frames, cartici, full-page borders Places shown: none Added: 2019-01-18 + S K L |
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1125x2535, 333x750, 563x1268, 89x200 | Birth of the RoseArt-Journal (1850) Engraved by T. W. Knight from the statue by B. Jennings. This statue won first prize for sculpture in the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was given to Birmingham Free Library in 1914; I do not know wheth [...] Keywords: romance, flowers, roses, boys, people, men, statuary, cupids, angels, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2017-01-28 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, 319x200, 720x450, 960x600 | Christians Flung To The Wild BeastsPopular History of Rome, A (1886) A scene in the Roman Colosseum, the great theatre where the gladiators fought. But in this case a group of Christians, including men, women and children, has been made available to lions, tigers and [...] Keywords: people, animals, sporting events, religion, torture, punishments, bare feet, nudity, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-01-28 + S K L |
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153x200, 1816x2375, 573x750, 908x1188 | Old Shop, corner of Fleet Street and Chancery Lane in 1799London (Volume V) (1843) The general character of shops in olden London was to have the wares exposed openly to the street, without any barrier of glass between the buyer and seller. Wherever our old topographers and chronicl [...] Keywords: buildings, shops, architecture, windows, people, old-fashioned, xmas, greyscale Places shown: London; England Added: 2019-02-25 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1158x1146, 202x200, 2316x2291, 750x742 | Typographic ornament with leaves and flowersJugend [German art magazine] (1903) I think it’s ment to be ivy or oak, with maybe bluebell flowers? I’m not sure. This is a typographic ornament or end-piece for finishing off a chapter. The piece was signed R. B. but I’m not sure who [...] Keywords: ornaments, endpieces, leaves, flowers, floriated ornament, foliated ornament, ivy, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2019-01-10 + S K L |
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1056x1055, 200x200, 300x300, 600x600, 792x791 | Initial letter T with cherubsMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) 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 flo [...] Keywords: cherubs, romance, lettert, initials, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2011-01-21 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1250x819, 2501x1639, 305x200, 750x491 | Vintage TractorsDas Buch Fur Alle [the book for everyone] (1890) Traction Engines, or steam-powered tractors, from 1890 Keywords: machinery, farm machinery, traction engines, fields, steam power, industrial revolution, rural, machines, wheels, steam, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2022-05-07 + S K L |
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1310x1600, 164x200, 205x250, 553x675, 737x900, 983x1200 | They knelt on the seat, and fired deliberatelyChatterbox Annual (1916) It’s winter, and the horses are pulling the sleigh over the snow and through the forest, with wolves in hot pursuit. The young people (teens?) in the back are firing their rifles at the wolves. “Annie [...] Keywords: horses, carts, people, guns, weapons, wolves, winter, snow, trees, christmas, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2009-11-16 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1000x654, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 306x200, 806x527 | Shelter.Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878) Shelter by Arthur Hopkins. Two boys and two girls use a rocky ledge by the sea as shelter from the rain. The girls have dresses, and the boys are barefoot, and have sun-hats, suggesting that it is Sum [...] Keywords: art, people, bare feet, storms, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-08-20 + S K L |
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