Items matching cartouches (results page 1)

Bible Symbols CartoucheBible Symbols (1908)

A detail from the front cover of the “Bible Symbols” book, with the words Bible Symbols in gold. If you want to replace the ettering, first clone out the existing lettering, or use the resynthesizer p [...]

Keywords: colour, cartouches, lettering

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Added: 2010-06-21

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Page detail: Art Neuveau CartoucheThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

The encyclopedia of the book says that a cartouche is the enclosed space on a map within which an elaborate drawing of human figures, plant life, animals or heraldic devices and the name or title are [...]

Keywords: cartouches, candles, borders, colour

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Added: 2007-05-25

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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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Muse of Poetry, UnlabeledGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A version of the Muse of poetry sculpture with theGerman writing removed.

Keywords: sculpture, mythological figures, nudity, art, emblems, mermaids, birds, swans, musical instruments, poetry, music, cartouches, greyscale

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Added: 2011-06-25

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893.—Border with Freemasonry Symbols.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

This border, frame, or cartouche, was on an engraved block for sale in the 1800s; it shows the sun and moon, an eye with rays coming out of it (Illuminati?), the set-square (on the right-hand pillar) [...]

Keywords: occult, symbols, borders, cartouches, frames, astrology, freemasonry, greyscale

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Added: 2011-12-15

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894.—Full-page border with laurel-leaf frameNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

This rectangular full-page border contains an inner oval frame or cartouche made from laurel leaves, used to symbolize victory. There is also a version of this border with the laurel leaves coloured g [...]

Keywords: borders, cartouches, frames, leaves, victory, laurel leaves, wreaths, greyscale

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Added: 2013-02-08

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894b.—Full-page border with green laurel leaves.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

This rectangular full-page border contains an inner oval frame or cartouche made from laurel leaves, used to symbolize victory. In this version I have coloured the laurel leaves green. See also the or [...]

Keywords: borders, cartouches, frames, leaves, victory, laurel leaves, wreaths, colour

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Added: 2013-02-08

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Dutch Delft ceramic tile 19The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915)

This small tile picture shows a flower in an oval cartouche, with a squiggly design round it. It is taken from plate 104, Dutch ceramic tiles.

Keywords: flowers, cartouches, faience, ceramic art, tiles, colour

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Added: 2010-08-19

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1048.—Border with EvangelistsNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

I think the two bearded men depicted here, each holding a pen and page, are Saint Matthew (with the angel) and Saint John (with the cross). This wood-engraving might be suitable for a place-card or ca [...]

Keywords: borders, cartouches, cartici, frames, people, beards, religion, crosses, christianity, evangelists, easter, greyscale

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Added: 2014-07-28

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Three Gothic ArchesThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

A frame, almost like a rood screen or a picture frame for a triptych, this cartouche of three arches provided three niches for soldiers in the illustration “Three knights from the 15th century.” The a [...]

Keywords: arches, frames, windows, borders, cartouches, greyscale

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Added: 2011-05-01

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The Standard of the White HorseOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A white horse rears up; it is set in a circular frame or cartouche with sword-hilts and an axe-head nearby. The White Horse was made by cutting away the grass on the side of a hill in the shape of a h [...]

Keywords: horses, animals, frames, cartouches, animals, circles, swords, weapons, axes, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2011-05-16

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Monseigneur Roche, Bishop of GapLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

Here we have a portrait of a prelate, a French bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Gap; he lived from 1828 to 1880 and was made a bishop in 1879.

The portrait is in a fabulous engraved oval frame.

Keywords: portraits, frames, men, bishops, prelates, borders, oval, ovals, cartouches, cartici, greyscale

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Added: 2020-10-31

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Cartouche composé et Gravé Par MitelliMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

A very rococo frame or border used as a chapter heading, this cartouche has cherubs on either side, a face laghing in the lower centre, fruits, vines, scrollwork, the whole deal. It says, in the cent [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, cartouches, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-22

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Blank CartoucheMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

A version of the Cartouche from which I have removed the writing in the middle, so it’s blank for use as a frame or very fancy border.

Keywords: borders, frames, cherubsborders, cartouches, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-22

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