Items matching borders, greyscale (results page 12)

Abstract border and front cover designLa Civilizacion (1881)

This is the pattern and design from the front cover. There are two main areas for text, there’s swirly barbed wire, there’s a Grecian urn, what more could you want? Well, OK, I can also provide the va [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, templates, victoriana, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-05-20

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Decorative initial letter O, FloriatedArt-Journal (1850)

A foliated (floriated) initial letter “O” as follows: A strong solid ltter O with a nub on the inside and ouside on each side and with an outline, and with stylized acanthus or vine leaves and round f [...]

Keywords: lettero, initials, floriated initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2016-02-10

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Bust of William of Wykeham. 1394.The Lives of British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)

On a corbel in Muniment Room, Winchester College. The photograph shows a stone bust of William of Wykeham, wearing a bishop’s mitre and carrying a bishop’s crook. “Although William of Wykeham can in a [...]

Keywords: portraits, carving, statuary, people, religion, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2007-05-28

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01. 8th Century. Vatican.Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

Keywords: initials, alphabets, greyscale

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2004-07-31

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Decorative initial letter O with cherubsGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

Two naked children—cherubs, or putti—are playing inside an initial letter “O” in the German Fraktur style. One boy uses a rope to pull on a decorative vertical part of the letter while the other boy [...]

Keywords: initials, lettero, cherubs, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-18

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The black kitten with a ball of twineThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

The kitten has a ball of wool or a ball of string (“twine” in the text might be either, except that later it’s referred to as “worsted” and is thus wool.) But the black kitten had been finished with e [...]

Keywords: cats, animals, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-19

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1. Seal of Bael.The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King (1904)

[Buy a modern reprint of this book from Amazon: Canada, USA.] (1.) Bael. — The First Principal Spirit is a King ruling in the East, called Bael. He maketh thee to go Invisible. He ruleth over 66 Legio [...]

Keywords: symbols, occult, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-02

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The Ring on My FingerModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band VII (1893)

Du Ring an meinem Finger, which is, The Ring on my Finger. A barefoot peasant girl sits on a wheelbarrow stacked high with sheaves of wheat. She is admiring a ring on her second-smallest finger: an en [...]

Keywords: women, romance, engagement, bare feet, farming, harvest, wheat, fields, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-05-25

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The Invocation.Emblems Divine and Moral (1866)

The illustration for “The Invocation” at the start of the first book shows a person lying on the ground resting against a tree, barefoot, with a lute on the ground nearby, and an heraldic shield hung [...]

Keywords: poetry, emblems, people, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-16

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Clerk Colvill (chapter head)Some British Ballads (1919)

This black-and-white line illustration of a mermaid is above the start of the ballad Clerk Colvill.

Keywords: mermaids, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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Page 1: In those old daysOut to Old Aunt Mary’s (1904)

“In those old days of the lost sunshine   Of youth” (p. 1) The picture is taken from a pencil or charcoal sketch of an orchard of three trees, and, judging by the full leaves and the sharp shadows, ro [...]

Keywords: trees, orchards, borders, colour, page images, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-16

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1.—Scarborough: General View of the South BayRound The Coast (1895)

A fairly crowded beach even by modern standards, with Victorian bathing machines. From a Photo. by Poulton & Son. “This has been called the “Queen of English Watering-Places,” and is at least unrivall [...]

Keywords: beaches, water, boats, towns, townscapes, cityscapes, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Scarborough; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2006-11-28

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1.—Alphabet After Serlio, Reconstructed by Albert R. Ross.Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

Constructed capitals: diagram showing how to draw letters with rulers and compasses against a grid. “An excellent model for constructing the Roman capitals in a standard form will be found in the beau [...]

Keywords: alphabets, lettering, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-22

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Robert Fludd - The Mirror of the Whole of Nature and the Image of ArtCollected Occult Images (1690)

This engraving, captioned Integra Natura fpeculum Artisque imago, which is, The whole(ness) of nature reflected in the mirror of art, appeared in Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysic [...]

Keywords: occult, diagrams, alchemy, zodiac, astrology, people, nudity, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-08-08

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Robert Fludd’s Mirror of Nature, Widescreen VersionCollected Occult Images (1690)

A computer wallpaper based on a fragment of Nature’s Mirror.

Keywords: occult, diagrams, alchemy, zodiac, astrology, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-08-08

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Letter G from “Alphabet after Serlio”Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The letter G taken from Fig. 1.

Keywords: letterg, initials, lettering, constructed initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-23

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Letter H from “Alphabet after Serlio”Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The letter H taken from Fig. 1.

Keywords: letterh, initials, lettering, constructed initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-28

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Letter I from “Alphabet after Serlio”Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The letter I taken from Fig. 1.

Keywords: letteri, initials, lettering, constructed initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-28

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Letter N from “Alphabet after Serlio”Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The letter N taken from Fig. 1.

Keywords: lettern, initials, lettering, constructed initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-01

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Letter N from “Alphabet after Serlio”Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The letter O taken from Fig. 1.

Keywords: lettero, initials, lettering, constructed initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-01

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