Items matching calendars (results page 1)

JanuaryHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A mean wearing warm boots, coat and hat walks through the snow, blowing on his hands to warm them, and is accompanied by a dog. The roofs of a nearby farm and house are covered in snow. In the sky is [...]

Keywords: snow, animals, dogs, people, winter, months, calendars, january, aquarius, zodiac, colour

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Added: 2003-03-18

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JanuaryThe Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

January from The Shepheardes Calendar. The shepherd’s boy, Colin Cloute, is shown with a staff (properly called a crook). We also see a distant town with the spires of a cathedral or of churches, and [...]

Keywords: colour, calendars, monthscolour

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Added: 2006-02-08

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FebruaryThe Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

February from The Shepheardes Calendar. An old shepherd, Thenot, speaks to a shepherd boy called Cuddie. We see the zodiac symbols for Pisces (the fish) in the sky.

Keywords: colour, calendars, months, february, people, animals, zodiac

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Added: 2006-02-08

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MarchThe Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

March from The Shepheardes Calendar. Two shepherd’s boys begin to “make purpos of love and other plesaunce, which to springtime is most agreeable.” We see the two boys standing talking, and also Cupid [...]

Keywords: colour, calendars, months, march, people, cherubs, zodiac

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Added: 2006-02-08

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AprilThe Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

April from The Shepheardes Calendar, or, as Spenser wrote it, Aprill. This Æglogue was written to honour Queen Elizabeth I. There are two shepherds, Hobbinoll and Thenott; we met Hobbinoll earlier, wh [...]

Keywords: colour, calendars, months, april, royalty, people, zodiac

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Added: 2006-02-08

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MayThe Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

May from The Shepheardes Calendar, showing two shepherds, Piers and Palinodie, represented as as a Protestant and a Catholic minister. In the sky we see the zodiac sign for Gemini, together with the t [...]

Keywords: colour, calendars, months, may, people, dancing, goats, animals, zodiac

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Added: 2006-02-08

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FebruaryHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

“— — Then came cold February, sitting In an old waggon, for he could not ride, Drawne of two fishes, for the season fitting, Which through the flood before did softly slyde And swim away; yet had he b [...]

Keywords: months, calendars, february, fish, people, carts, february, zodiac, pisces, greyscale

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Added: 2006-02-14

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227.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of January.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The central portion of the engraving (Fig. 227) represents the ploughman at his labour. Four oxen are employed in the team, and they are guided by a man in front, who bears a long staff. The sower fol [...]

Keywords: january, months, fields, horses, agriculture, people, farmers, mythology, cartouches, saxon england, calendars, greyscale

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Added: 2009-12-06

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228.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of February.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

February. “They called February Sprout-kele, by kele meaning the kele-wort, which we now call the cole-wort, the great pot-wort in time long past that our ancestors used; and the broth made therewith [...]

Keywords: feburary, months, forests, trees, people, bare feet, cartouches, borders, saxon england, calendars, fires, greyscale

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Added: 2010-02-06

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236.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of MarchOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

March Here we see a hunter with a horn and spear; a man pruning trees with a scythe (or possibly climbing fences with a banana); a man digging with a spade in the field, loosening the soil; another wi [...]

Keywords: march, people, months, calendars, bare feet, cartouches, borders, saxon england, farming, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2010-11-30

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237.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of April.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

April The illumination of the Saxon Calendar for this month represents three persons elevated on a sort of throne, each with drinking-cups in their hands, and surrounded with attendants upon their fes [...]

Keywords: april, months, courts, thrones, agriculture, people, bare feet, cartouches, borders, saxon england, calendars, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2011-01-04

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245.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of May.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This illustration of the month of May is taken from an Anglo-Saxon manuscript in the British Museum, Cotton Tiberius B 5. It shows people wearing simple clothing, with cloaks and shoes. At left a falc [...]

Keywords: calendars, months, may, shepherds, sheep, people, costumes, animals, horses, falconry, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2014-12-13

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254.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of JulyOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In the main scene here we see three men with sickles harvesting wheat as tall as they are, and another man standing on a rock with a long stick or cane and blowing a bugle, presumably a foreman. Four [...]

Keywords: calendars, months, july, people, farming, farmers, harvest, harvesting, wheat, corn, carts, costumes, anglo-saxon costumes, greyscale

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Added: 2022-03-16

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MarchHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

“—Sturdy March with brows full sternly bent   And armed strongly, rode upon a ram,   The same which over Hellespontus swam; Yet in his hand a spade he also hent,   And in a bag all sorts of weeds ysam [...]

Keywords: calendars, months, march, people, animals, greyscale

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Added: 2006-02-14

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SpringHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

Spring, the book informs us, commences on the 6th of March, and lasts ninety-three days. The woodcut shows a winged infant boy holding flowers. The following verse is printed beneath the engraving: “ [...]

Keywords: calendars, people, cherubs, spring, greyscale

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Added: 2006-03-17

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Vernal EquinoxHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

Perhaps not a very clear illustration of an equinox, but still a pretty woodcut of the Sun’s rays reaching the Earth.

Keywords: astrology, stars, sun, calendars, diagrams, greyscale

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Added: 2006-02-01

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AprilHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

April is a youth with curly hair and carrying a garland. He wears a tunic and sandals, with a cape billowing out behind him in the wind, and he rides a bucking bull that is jumping up out of a puddle [...]

Keywords: months, calendars, people, animals, april, greyscale

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Added: 2006-03-16

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MayHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A poem beneath the picture reads as follows: MAY. Then came faire May, the fayrest mayd on ground,     Dekt all with dainties of her seasons pryde, And throwing flow’res out of her lap around:     Upo [...]

Keywords: cherubs, bare feet, people, calendars, months, may, greyscale

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Added: 2004-05-01

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JuneHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 738)

A man bearded man strewn with garlands and leaves rides a crab. He faces backwards. he carries spear and shield, and on his lap a shovel. He wears sandals and a long robe.

Keywords: summer, people, beards, calendars, months, june, colour

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Added: 2005-01-06

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SummerHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 817)A barefoot, bare-legged and barechested man, clad only in a flowing scarf draped over his left arm and around his loins, holds a bundle of wheat in his outstretched left hand and a sickle in [...]

Keywords: people, bare feet, nudity, sickles, summer, harvest, calendars, greyscale

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Added: 2002-09-30

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