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1024x768, 1600x1200, 200x150, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Coffee StallLondon (Volume IV) (1841) A woman with heavy clothing and a scarf over her head is serving hot coffee from a wooden barrel to three people gathered around her small table at a street-corner. In the background a baker’s shop is [...] Keywords: commerce, people, coffee, street scenes, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: LondonLondon; England Added: 2013-05-14 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1232x841, 1440x900, 1643x1122, 1680x1050, 293x200, 693x473, 924x631 | Jesus in the Garden of GethsemaneReligion in the Home (1913) Matt. 26; 38,39 “Nor as I will, but as Thou wilt.” Here we see Jesus kneeling barefoot on a hill in the garden, confronting a winged angel who bears a cross. Three of Jesus’s apostles slumber in the [...] Keywords: religion, jesus, doubt, people, bare feet, easter, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2008-02-04 + S K L |
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157x200, 1841x2350, 588x750, 921x1175 | Border with mathematical instrumentsMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1881) This chapter head is made of two parts: to the left and top, an L-shaped steel ruler or square, perhaps, with a weight hanging by a string (a pumb-line probably; it may have been a roofing square); un [...] Keywords: borders, chapterheads, mathematics, scientific instruments, rulers, technology, science, engineering, astrolabes, full-page borders, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2019-01-26 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1147x1485, 1530x1979, 154x200, 516x668, 688x891, 918x1188 | Chapter Tail Ornament: Ancient Musical InstrumentsReligion in the Home (1913) A barefoot and shirtless man (I think) plays a long trumpet or horn; other instruments, including pan pipes, flute and recorder, twinned pipes, trumpet, curved horn and bagpipes are also shown. A sor [...] Keywords: musical instruments, ancient music, people, bare feet, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2008-02-02 + S K L |
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| 131x200, 1480x2257, 492x750, 740x1129 | Decorative Border With Christian SaintsImitation of Christ (1855) I’m not able to identify the people depicted in this border; we have Jesus and a Queen, but we also have people spreading incense and we have the devil, horned, barefoot, and doing acrobatics. There a [...] Keywords: christianity, borders, foliated borders, people, christmas, xmas, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2016-10-02 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1336x1355, 197x200, 739x750 | Winged angel with incense thuribleImitation of Christ (1855) A winged angel with a star on his forehead, a halo, wings and a flowing tunic, swings a thurible or incense burner on chains from one hand as he appears to hover. In Christion iconography, the smoke f [...] Keywords: angels, christmas, wings, religion, christianity, incense, prayer, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2016-10-08 + S K L |
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1024x960, 2069x1899, 218x200, 817x750 | Hinchinbrook House, HuntingdonThe Story of Some English Shires (1897) Queen Elizabeth I was entertained here in 1564 by the owner and original builder, Henry, grandson of one Morgan Williams of Glamorganshire, wife to the sister of Oliver Comwell. The house was sold in [...] Keywords: houses, mansions, buildings, stately homes, battlements, tudor architecture, mullions, windows, towers, people, hunting, dogs, animals, greyscale Places shown: Hinchinbrooke; Huntingdon; Cambridgeshire; England Added: 2013-10-17 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1120x700, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 319x200, 700x438, 900x563 | Going Home to Love in a CottageRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901) A man leads a horse through the snow, at night. He holds on to his hat with one hand. The very spot where the Snorkers held a pic-nic. Oh! didn’t the ladies cry out in one voice, “I could live in suc [...] Keywords: winter, snow, christmas, people, animals, horses, walking, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2008-12-10 + S K L |
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1161x839, 2322x1677, 277x200, 750x542 | Rudolph von Habsburg.Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858) This engraving by Schultheiss is based on an oil painting by Moitz von Schwind, and depicts a scene about Rudolf von Habsburg (1218 – 1291), King of Germany. The story is that Rudolf, when he was stil [...] Keywords: kings, royalty, servants, bare feet, forests, woods, trees, nighttime, priests, sacrament, the host, christianity, piety, bowing, kneeling, tobes, costumes, horses, people, knights, soldiers, greyscale Places shown: Germany Added: 2021-04-01 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 132x200, 1488x2252, 496x750, 744x1126 | Beautiful and Unusual Full-Page Victorian BorderImitation of Christ (1855) This full-page floral border includes some scenes, both religious and other, and originally surrounded text from the Imitation of Christ. The scenes from top left, are;A woman with cloven hooves and w [...] Keywords: borders, full-page borders, christianity, religion, cats, animals, floriated borders, bare feet, jesus, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-06-19 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 133x200, 1353x2031, 677x1016 | Resurrected Jesus floating in the CloudsImitation of Christ (1855) Jesus here, with holes in his hands and feet, floats among clouds. His arms are raised in in a benediction, his bearded face gazes upwards as if to the Father, and there are vines in his hands, for he [...] Keywords: jesus, people, men, beards, bare feet, pierced hands, pierced feet, christianity, religion, prophets, angels, halos, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-06-20 + S K L |
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309x718, 617x1435, 86x200 | Devil CatImitation of Christ (1855) An angry cat (at least, I think it’s a cat) charges towards us with tail puffed up... but this cat has horns and cloven paws! This is a detail from a full-page border of vines. Keywords: cats, devils, demons, religion, christianity, animals, evil, anger, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-06-20 + S K L |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 2016x1408, 211x158, 267x200, 375x281, 640x480, 800x600 | The BearWood Engravings by Thomas Bewick (1947) The Bear, from A General History of Quadrupeds (Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1790). It appears to be chained in place, although I cannot say that it seems a very accurate depiction. Buy high-resolution image [...] Keywords: bears, animals, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2008-07-02 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 119x200, 1305x2198, 445x750, 653x1099 | Fantine [Les Misérables]Victor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881) An engraving of a sketch of Fantine as a woman wearing a bonnet with a ribbon and looking away from us. The engraving is signed SHK, or maybe Sc. HV, which could indicate that Victor Hugo drew it hims [...] Keywords: women, people, les miserables, fantine, drawings, sketches, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2017-10-14 + S K L |
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1080x680, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, 317x200, 829x522 | The AlhambraTurrets Towers and Temples (1899) “When you issue from these dark passages into this large space flooded with light, the effect is similar to that produced by a diorama. You can almost fancy that an enchanter’s wand has transported yo [...] Keywords: mosques, temples, interiors, arches, greyscale Places shown: Grenada; Spain Added: 2007-04-02 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1329x1599, 166x200, 623x750 | Initial letter D with hiker in forestVictor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881) This “vignetted” decorative initial features a person with a hat, a satchel, a walking stick, stepping over the initial letter and out of a path in a forest or deep woods. Keywords: initials, letterd, vignetted initials, trees, forests, people, walking, hiking, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2016-02-21 + S K L |
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![Fantine [Les Misérables]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/AlfredBarbou-VictorHugo/pages/310-fantine/310-fantine-q75-119x200.jpg "Fantine [Les Misérables] 1881")
